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Frequent Miler on the Air

Rocking Cyber Monday | Ep74 | 11-28-20

Frequent Miler on the Air

Frequent Miler

Aviation, Places & Travel, Society & Culture, Leisure

4.9638 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2020

⏱️ 134 minutes

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Summary

0:27 Reader feedback: The opposite of the "joy of free" is "the pain of fees".

6:11 What crazy thing did Citi do this week? First up: ThankYou points devaluation

https://frequentmiler.com/citi-devalues-thankyou-points-transfers-to-shop-your-way-lose-20-bonus/

12:04 Next crazy thing: Amex hides away 10x earnings on Platinum card. 14:17 link: https://frequentmiler.com/yes-your-new-platinum-card-is-earning-10x-where-appropriate/

16:59 What crazy thing triple header! What happened to Delta this week?

21:10 Mattress running the numbers: Choice promo for 2K / 5K points for 2 or 3 night stays

https://frequentmiler.com/choice-hotels-promo-stay-2-nights-earn-2000-points-stay-3-nights-earn-5000-points/

23:32 Rocking Cyber Monday: Avoid the stress, beware the hype

https://frequentmiler.com/amazon-discount-with-membership-rewards-points/

https://frequentmiler.com/awesome-amex-offer-get-8-points-per-dollar-at-amazon/

https://frequentmiler.com/awesome-amex-offer-get-8-points-per-dollar-at-amazon/

https://frequentmiler.com/targeted-3x-10x-chase-spending-offers-on-a-plethora-of-cards/

https://frequentmiler.com/citi-cards-5-back-for-online-shopping-november-24-30/

51:41 Post Roast

Feeling thankful: https://frequentmiler.com/feeling-thankful-in-2020/

57:00 Question of the Week: Can you take back a suite night award and then get a do-over on the upgrade request? Should you?

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.

0:12.2

Frequent Myler on the air starts now.

0:18.5

Today's main event, rocking Cyber Monday. We're going to get into the deals. What are we doing to really get the most out of these crazy deals that are going on? And how are we kind of dealing with the overwhelming onslaught of all these opportunities? Boom. Yeah. First, of course, we have the giant mailbag. And today, we've got

0:41.9

mail from a reader via email. Again, I don't know whether he wanted this to be published, so I'm not

0:48.9

going to say his name. But the reader says he has the Bank of America Rewards card with the 75% reward tier.

0:57.3

So that brings his cash back to 2.625% for all his spent.

1:01.5

Great deal on that card.

1:03.2

And yeah.

1:05.1

So you know, you have to have the Bank of America premier rewards card and you have to have

1:09.5

platinum honors with Bank of America

1:11.2

to get that 75% bump and that brings the total cash back to a whopping 2.62%. Anyway, he says my county's

1:19.3

tax assessor's office allows me to charge the property tax on credit card with a 2.35% fee. So in essence, by paying my property tax with this credit card,

1:32.4

I'm getting a whopping 0.27% cash back, right? That's it. That's earning a little bit. So he's actually

1:38.0

earning something. I mean, paying something he's going to pay already and he earns a little bit back.

1:41.1

Not a bad. That's right. Right. Right. And he says one would think I would be happy, right? But he had a little bit back. Not a bad. That's right. Right.

1:46.3

And he says one would think I would be happy, right?

1:52.1

But he had a hard time, or I should read in his words, I had a hard time pulling the trigger.

1:55.3

Well, objectively, I know that I will come out ahead with the payment.

2:00.3

There's just a constant guilt of seeing myself paying over $100 in fees.

2:06.4

I did pay the bill with credit card in the end, but nevertheless, it was a revealing insight into my fear of fees, somewhat similar to your discovery of joy of free.

2:13.4

Interesting. Yeah.

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