New Chase 48 Month Sapphire Rule: What to do now and going forward August 29, 2018 Welcome to another edition of Shop Talk where we discuss what’s going on in our personal points & miles space and highlight what we…
PSA: Verify American Express Sign Up Bonuses (Before Spending) July 3, 2018 Today’s post comes out of a comment I left a few months back on Robert’s Hilton Amex Double Dip post. For the past few…
Extend Make-or-Buy Analysis to Your Travels April 18, 2016 Miles are addictive. This addiction causes two types of actions in almost all afflicted parties: Greed for more miles and Hoarding of existing stock….
Secure and Keep Your Chase UR Without Paying an Annual Fee February 19, 2015 We’ve introduced some of you to the Chase Freedom (Preferred) card here this week on Milenomics. Today I want to go a little deeper…
Upgrade Your Chase Sapphire Preferred and Earn 7,500 UR (or more!) February 17, 2015 Today I’ll go over a way to supercharge your Chase Sapphire Preferred, earning 7,500 or more UR along the way. I’ll go over why…
The Cheapest Way to Get Up and Running With Softcard Mobile Wallet February 11, 2015 I’d like to start this post by saying the following: Softcard, your business model is crazy. There is no way your service can catch…
How to Redeem WorldPoints and Use TheFlightDeal.com to Supercharge your Fidelity Rewards Amex January 28, 2015 Reader Gene Asked for a detailed post on the process of redeeming Worldpoints earned on the Fidelity Investor Rewards Amex, which just so happens to…
Amex No Longer Capping MR Transfers to Delta at 250k/yr. December 12, 2014 In case you’re feverishly working at transferring out your MR to Delta Skymiles before January 1, I wanted to update you to the fact that…
American Express Dropping the Hammer–Blue Cash 5% Cards Closed Being Closed Today October 22, 2014 Very interesting developments happening today. Without notice American Express seems to have started closing accounts of people who have the old Blue Cash 5%…
Push it to the Limit–Get [up to] 3 Extra Annual Fee Free Months October 8, 2014 Today’s post is best expereienced while listening to this song. Press play, and then start reading. 😉 — A quick post today, but one which…