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5 Buy Miles / Points Promos Ending Soon: Choice Hotels (35%), IHG (100%), Radisson (50%), Hyatt (25%) & Spirit Airlines (60%)

Good afternoon everyone, happy Friday!  I was working on my Buy Miles & Points Page and found 5 offers that end in the next week.  Always check the math to make sure that buying miles & points makes sense for you.  Do not buy miles & points speculatively unless you have a use in mind.  With that said, here are 5 offers that end soon.

Up next, Choice Hotels is offering up to a 35% bonus, depending on the number of Choice Hotels Privileges Points you purchase.  This offer expires on October 8.

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PSA: Confirm Retention Offer Statement Credit or Bonus Points Post to your Account – If Not, Follow Up

Good afternoon everyone.  At the end of every year, I write a post like I Paid $4,043 in Credit Card Annual Fees in 2022 – Was it Worth it?  In that post, I shared how much I paid in credit card annual fees and how much value I received from credit card benefits, targeted spending offers, and retention offers.  99% of the time, I get more value out of a credit card than the cost of the annual fee (otherwise I would have closed or downgraded to a cheaper or no annual fee credit card).  One of the key parts of my credit card strategy is to call every time a credit card annual fee posts to my account. 90% of the time, I do not get any retention offer or a retention offer that does not excite me (like 0% APR for 12 months or 0% balance transfers).  But about 10% of the time, I do get a decent retention offer that I happily accept.  Like the old saying goes, you miss 100% of the shots you do not take.

Most of the time, the retention offer will post within a few weeks or by the time the next credit card statement closes.  But sometimes it doesn’t, so you may need to follow up to see what is going on.  This is exactly what happened to me regarding 2 retention offers I recently received from Chase.  I called in early July about the $450 annual fee on my JPMorgan Chase Ritz Carlton Credit Card and explained that I was considering closing the credit card because the annual fee posted and I wasn’t getting enough value out of the credit card.  The rep looked at the retention offers and said they could offer me a $150 statement credit if I kept the credit card open and paid the annual fee.  I happily accepted the offer and patiently waited for the $150 statement credit to post.  Unfortunately, nothing happened for 2 full months.

I called Chase in mid September and asked about the $150 retention offer and the agent said that they see the $150 retention offer statement credit as an option, but that the button to accept the offer was not pressed / selected.  The rep was able to click / accept the offer and said that the $150 statement credit would appear in the next few weeks.  A few days after the call, the $150 statement credit posted on September 18.

Mini Rant: I hate that a $150 statement credit on my Ritz Carlton credit card causes me to lose 300 Marriott Bonvoy points.  I didn’t earn any points when I paid the $450 annual fee, so why am I paying 300 points when I receive a $150 statement credit?

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4 Buy Miles / Points Promos Ending Soon: Frontier Airlines (150%), IHG Hotels (80%), Marriott (35%) & Spirit (40%)

Good afternoon everyone, happy Friday!  I was working on my Buy Miles & Points Page and found 4 offers that end in the next week.  Always check the math to make sure that buying miles & points makes sense for you.  Do not buy miles & points speculatively unless you have a use in mind.  With that said, here are the 4 offers that end soon.

Up first, Frontier Airlines is offering up to a 150% bonus, depending on the number of Frontier Airlines Miles you purchase.  This offer expires today – September 8.

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7 Buy Miles / Points Promos Ending Soon: Alaska (60%), Southwest (50%), United (90%), Choice Hotels (25%), Avianca (140%), JetBlue (80%) & IHG (80%)

Good afternoon everyone, happy Friday!  I was working on my Buy Miles & Points Page and found 7 offers that end in the next 2 weeks.  As we approach Labor Day Weekend, the airline and hotel programs have lots of buy miles and points promos.  Always check the math to make sure that buying miles & points makes sense for you.  Do not buy miles & points speculatively unless you have a use in mind.  With that said, here are 7 offers that end soon.

Up first, Alaska Airlines is offering up to a 60% bonus, depending on the number of Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan Miles you purchase.  This offer expires on August 20.

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Confession: I Used the Wrong IHG Free Night Certificate (Just Issued vs. Almost Expired), But IHG Helped Me Out

Good afternoon everyone, I hope you had a great weekend.  I am not a juggler, but I do a pretty good job juggling free night certificates and not letting them expire… until last week.  My first clue that something was wrong was when I received this email from AwardWallet alerting me to the fact that one of my IHG Free Night Certificates was going to expire on July 27.  At first, I thought it was a glitch with AwardWallet or IHG since I just booked a stay using my IHG Free Night Certificate back on June 29 for a Crowne Plaza hotel on July 17.  After thinking it over, I decided to take a closer to see what was going on…

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