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How to avoid Amex's pop up prison | Ep137 | 2-12-22

Frequent Miler on the Air

Frequent Miler

Places & Travel, Leisure, Society & Culture, Aviation

4.9640 Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Amex offers some of the best cards on the market both in terms of initial welcome bonus offers and rewards for ongoing spend, but how do you stay in Amex's good graces so you can remain eligible? This week, we discuss avoiding dreaded pop-up prison.

1:18 Giant Mailbag

5:49 What crazy thing . . . did American Express do this week?

8:32 Mattress running the numbers: Is it worth spending on a Marriott credit card for elite night credits?

16:00 Main Event: Avoiding Amex's Pop-up prison

49:41 Question of the Week: How do you build up a meaningful stash of Citi ThankYou points?

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Music credit: Annie Yoder

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0:00.0

This is a Voyescape podcast.

0:03.9

You can find all of our travel podcasts from around the world at voyescape.com.

0:10.7

Let's get into the giant mailbag.

0:13.5

What crazy thing did City this week.

0:17.5

It's time for mattress running the numbers.

0:19.8

Ready for the main event?

0:21.0

The main event.

0:22.3

Frequent Liler on the air starts now.

0:26.7

Today's main event, avoiding Amex's pop-up prison.

0:31.4

I don't want to be a prisoner.

0:32.8

I don't want to be a prisoner.

0:33.6

No, no one wants to be a pop-up prisoner, or any kind of prisoner, really.

0:40.1

But, you know, there's,

0:47.3

Amex doesn't seem to like people who just sign up for their cards for the welcome bonuses and don't do anything else. And then those people, like my son as an example, end up in pop- up prison where when he goes to sign up for a new

0:56.9

card, a pop-up shows up saying, you know, you can sign up for this card, but you're not eligible

1:03.3

for a welcome bonus. And wait, are you telling me your son's been in pop-up prison and you

1:07.8

haven't billed him out yet? Haven't yet.

1:13.8

The bailout process is not clear.

1:16.8

So we're going to be talking about how to avoid getting in there in the first place so you don't end up waiting for your dad to bail you out, which he doesn't know how to do.

1:24.7

Seems like a good topic to discuss then.

1:27.1

So then I think so.

1:29.0

I think then we should probably drag out the giant mailbag.

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