Nick's baller Bilt gamble | Coffee Break Ep02 | 2-27-24
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🗓️ 27 February 2024
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Back in January, Nick saw that Bilt was going to have a huge transfer bonus to Aeroplan (one of his favorite mileage programs)...but he didn't have a Bilt card yet. With luck on his side though, he suspected he could get the card and get over 100K Aeroplan miles in just a matter of days. Greg thought he was insane, but Nick's gamble paid off.
(02:48) - What is Bilt and why was Nick interested?
Learn more about the Bilt card here.
(03:16) - What was the Bilt bonus that finally got Nick's attention?
We published those transfer bonus details here.
(04:25) - Nick outlines the challenge in his timing, applying for the card ~6 days before the scheduled transfer bonus opportunity with lots of things to get done in that time.
(06:39) - Nick discovered he still needed to make 5 transactions on his new card, which he was able to do with the digital card he'd gotten upon approval.
(08:45) - Nick got lucky and the card arrived early (with one day to spare), and right around then he also got the email for a 5X offer...
(10:11) - The second dilemma: in order to maximize the 5X for 5 days of spend he'd need to spend $12,500, which was more than the card's credit limit.
To read Nick's more detailed account of this, make sure and read his "How Nick Built his own Bilt bonus" post here.
(12:42) - Nick breaks down his ~$18K in spend which landed him with 62K Bilt rewards which then became 124K Air Canada Aeroplan miles.
(15:02) - Nick remembers the points-pooling ability in Air Canada Aeroplan.
(16:06) - Greg and Nick talk about how gambles like this can play a significant role in this game.
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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. |
| 0:12.2 | Here we go. |
| 0:16.0 | This is not your usual frequent mile around the air episode. |
| 0:20.6 | This is a standalone segment we're calling coffee break. |
| 0:24.6 | Each coffee break segment will cover a single topic related to miles and points. |
| 0:30.2 | And each coffee break is limited to 20 minutes or your money back. |
| 0:34.4 | Enjoy. |
| 0:37.2 | Today's coffee break, we're going to be talking about Nick's baller-built gamble. |
| 0:43.3 | So back in January, Nick saw that built was going to have this huge transfer bonus to |
| 0:52.8 | aeroplane, which is one of the next favorite mileage programs. |
| 0:57.7 | And he didn't have a built card. |
| 0:59.9 | So there wasn't anything he could do except he came up with a crazy plan where if everything |
| 1:07.4 | went right, he would end up with over 100,000 aeroplane miles. Now, the reason I want to talk |
| 1:17.4 | about this during a coffee break, Nick, is that you kind of mentioned this in our internal |
| 1:23.0 | Slack channel as you were doing the parts of this. And each part I thought, Nick is insane. There's |
| 1:29.6 | no way this is going to work. Because your devious plan counted on getting this card physically |
| 1:38.7 | delivered to your house, which is in way in the middle of nowhere in New York, right? |
| 1:46.6 | Right. |
| 1:48.0 | And it had to get delivered there before. |
| 1:51.7 | So you, you, actually, it was your wife, but applied for the card on January 26th. |
| 1:58.8 | The, this transfer bonus that you were, you were looking forward to was February 1st |
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