The best card for every occasion | Ep139 | 2-26-22
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2022
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
Which cards do we flex for grocery, gas, travel, and everywhere else? Greg and Nick discuss the cards they use for each category and why.
1:04 Giant Mailbag: About that Amex pop-up . . .
4:00 What crazy thing . . . did Qatar do this week?
https://frequentmiler.com/qatar-airways-changes-qmiles-adios-hello-avios/
8:54 Mattress Running the Numbers: Marriott drops award charts
https://frequentmiler.com/marriott-ditches-award-chart-march-29th-top-properties-to-go-up-by-30k-certificate-top-off-coming-in-april/
17:44 Main Event: Which is the best card to use?
Which card is best for....
26:30 Grocery
34:29 Gas
41:34 Dining
49:33 Travel
59:22 Warehouse stores
1:02:30 Online shopping
1:08:29 Everywhere else
1:22:34 Post roast
1:24:10 Question of the Week: Is it still worth upgrading to the Ritz card? If I do, am I eligible for a new cardmember bonus on the Marriott Boundless card?
https://frequentmiler.com/marriott-card-eligible/
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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? |
| 0:21.0 | The main event. |
| 0:22.3 | Frequent Miler on the air starts now. |
| 0:28.2 | Frequent Miler on the air starts now. |
| 0:30.3 | Today's main event, the best card for every occasion. |
| 0:34.0 | We're going to discuss which card to use where. |
| 0:36.5 | How do you get the most rewards for every bit of your spend? And we probably aren't going to see eye to eye on every single one, are we? |
| 0:45.3 | I mean, there's a good chance. There's a good chance we may not. There'll be a little bit of debate, I hope. I hope so. I hope so. That's what makes it entertaining and informative, I think, |
| 0:55.4 | because it's good to hear why people don't agree. There's not always a right answer to any of these |
| 1:00.9 | things. Well, hopefully I can correct the error of the Craig's ways. That's right, because I'm always |
| 1:09.1 | wrong. Nick's always right. Of course. In some universe that I haven't been to yet. |
| 1:14.2 | Let's go on to the giant mailbag. |
| 1:18.2 | Today's mail comes from Heidi. |
| 1:21.5 | And apologies to Heidi. |
| 1:23.5 | I've edited your email a bit for brevity, but I've kept the gist of it. |
| 1:29.1 | Heidi says, in your recent episode, and this is, she was referring to the episode where we talked |
| 1:34.0 | about how to stay out of Amex pop-up prison by spending on a bunch of different cards and whatnot. |
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