How would we spend 1 million dollars? | Ep204 | 5-27-23
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Frequent Miler
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🗓️ 27 May 2023
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Here are ways to maximize your return on high levels of spend with low levels of effort.
00:00 Intro
00:29 Giant Mailbag
01:56 Giant Mailbag #2
https://frequentmiler.com/cross-brand-amex-referrals-possible/
04:25 Card Talk: Bank of America Premium Rewards card
https://frequentmiler.com/boapr/
https://frequentmiler.com/bank-of-america-rewards/
19:00 What crazy thing . . . did Choice Privileges do this week?
22:25 Mattress running the numbers: Wyndham summer promo
https://frequentmiler.com/wyndham-promo-earn-5k-15k-bonus-points-when-staying-2-4-consecutive-nights/
27:32 Award Talk
27:50 Nordic Choice rebrands as . . . Strawberry?
29:51 Using Wyndham points to book Vacasa
https://frequentmiler.com/bargain-luxury-in-hawaii-gregs-wyndham-vacasa-experience/
35:39 Avianca customer service success
https://frequentmiler.com/an-avianca-lifemiles-success-story-thanks-to-screenshots/
39:38 Frequent Miler Challenge Update
https://frequentmiler.com/party-of-5-frequent-milers-2023-team-challenge/
43:30 Main Event: How would we spend $1 million?
44:29 Bank of America Premium Rewards card with Platinum Honors
46:14 Citi Double Cash or Capital One Venture / Venture X / Spark Miles
https://frequentmiler.com/dc/
https://frequentmiler.com/c1vr/
https://frequentmiler.com/venturex/
https://frequentmiler.com/c1smbiz/
48:34 Multiple welcome bonuses
49:03 Business Platinums
51:36 Venture X for Business
https://frequentmiler.com/capital-one-launches-spark-travel-elite-250000/
54:32 Aeroplan Visa
https://frequentmiler.com/Aeroplan/
57:16 Delta Diamond for life
https://frequentmiler.com/manufacturing-lifetime-delta-diamond-status/
59:41 Get elite statuses
59:42 American Airlines elite status
https://frequentmiler.com/american-airlines-aadvantage-complete-guide/
1:01:45 Air Canada Aeroplan elite status
1:02:45 Hyatt elite status
1:04:51 Marriott elite status
1:06:09 IHG elite status
1:07:20 What would Greg do?
1:09:12 What would Nick do?
1:17:30 Question of the Week: Is it possible to get an Amex Business card with a low percentage of business owned?
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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? The main event. |
| 0:21.6 | Frequent Miler on the air starts now. |
| 0:23.6 | Today's main event, how would we spend $1 million? |
| 0:31.6 | One million dollars. |
| 0:32.6 | One million dollars. |
| 0:35.6 | I'm going to jump right into the mailbag instead of explaining this because the mailbag does |
| 0:41.4 | explain this. |
| 0:42.3 | Okay. |
| 0:43.3 | Time for the giant mail bag. |
| 0:44.8 | Right. |
| 0:45.5 | Today's giant mail comes from several different contributors who had variations on the same-ish |
| 0:53.5 | situation, which is they spend or are about to spend a |
| 0:59.2 | tremendous amount of money using credit cards, and they want to know what credit cards |
| 1:05.3 | should they use to maximize their rewards. |
| 1:07.1 | And we've had people who are talking about spending like a million dollars in a year |
| 1:12.0 | or more. It's not unusual to have like business people spending hundreds of thousands in a |
| 1:18.2 | month, for example. And so the question is, well, we can't answer for you, but we're going to |
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