Is manufactured spending dead? | Ep52
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 638 Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2020
⏱️ 75 minutes
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00:38 Reader Feedback: Facebook comments & changes to our group
8:31 Pandemic Vacation: How does Greg feel about it in hindsight?
https://frequentmiler.boardingarea.com/pandemic-vacation-is-it-safe/
21:57 IHG Points: Are they now worth more? Did Greg's methodology make sense? Is basing RRVs just on big city US redemptions a reliable way to determine the RRV?
https://frequentmiler.boardingarea.com/what-are-ihg-points-worth-now-that-they-have-dynamic-pricing/
38:18 Is manufactured spending dead? Gift Card Mall portal changes
https://frequentmiler.boardingarea.com/giftcardmall-cap-reduced-from-60k-to-2k-for-cash-back/
41:22 Plastiq becomes a bad play
https://frequentmiler.boardingarea.com/another-hit-to-ms-plastiq-fees-increasing-to-2-85/
47:44 MS time machine: a trip down memory lane. First up: US Mint coins
50:00 Vanilla Reloads
51:55 Visa Gift Cards Got PINs
52:42 Load Bluebird with VGCs
54:46 Golden Age of Redbird
1:00:19 Flipping the script: Easy purchase, but tough liquidation
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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. |
| 0:11.2 | Welcome to Frequent Myler on the air. |
| 0:13.7 | This week we're going to be covering manufactured spend. |
| 0:16.7 | Is it dead? |
| 0:17.9 | So we'll be exploring that question. |
| 0:19.9 | That's the main topic for today, but we've got |
| 0:22.4 | more goodies for you than just that. And first, we have next favorite feedback time. |
| 0:29.3 | Reader feedback. I love to get the feedback and find out what the readers have to say. |
| 0:34.1 | So do I. Listeners or viewers, is it the case maybe. Yeah. |
| 0:43.1 | And, you know, I usually pull out the feedback a few minutes before we get together for this. |
| 0:47.7 | So I never know, you know, half an hour before this, what the feedback is going to be either. |
| 0:52.2 | This week, the feedback comes from Twitter. |
| 0:56.5 | On Twitter, we got a post that called us out. |
| 0:59.4 | It said, it's kind of sad. |
| 1:04.8 | Frequent Miler allows stuff like this to happen on his Facebook group. |
| 1:14.5 | And the, like this, was a screen grab of a conversation on our frequent miler insiders Facebook group where the conversation had devolved into political name calling basically right so you know |
| 1:25.2 | we we always welcome feedback but I I want to take this opportunity to both |
| 1:31.5 | to mention procedurally what we would like to happen when people see this kind of stuff, |
| 1:37.1 | and also to talk about what we've done to try to solve this kind of problem. |
| 1:42.6 | So we never intended to allow that sort of hate speech or |
| 1:48.7 | really any political dialogue at all. I mean, that's not what we created the group for, right? |
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