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Today's main event, Hyatt makes it crazy easy to earn top tier status.

We'll get all over that soon.

Of course, we have the giant mailbag first.

Today's mail comes from several readers who commented on a show we did a few weeks ago where we talked about retention offers.

And in that show, we said that most retention offers don't have a requirement to keep the card like forever.

And that usually as long as you keep it until you get the bonus,

you know, that's the only requirement that's there. A few people wrote in saying,

not so fast. Amex retention offers specifically state that you must keep the account open for

12 months from receiving the bonus or else it can get clodd back.

So I don't know if that's true of all Amex offers.

I, you know, I haven't, I mean retention offers.

I haven't paid that close of attention to them when I get them.

I know that when the,

and when I'm on the phone and the rep starts reading the terms and conditions, I just

zone out. Exactly. Yeah, I feel like I'm done. I got their retention offer. Now I can, you know,

just sit here and say, uh-huh, uh-huh, wait for, wait for them to say, do I have your permission?

Say, I don't even hear that. I just wait for the pause. Whenever the pause comes, I'm like, yes, yes. Exactly. You just hope you're saying yes to the right thing. Right, hopefully. Catastrophic. Hopefully. Wave your permission to shut down all your accounts and take back all your points. Wait a second. Wait a second. That's not what I called about.

So, I mean, right.

I shouldn't have pressed option C.

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