Good afternoon everyone. I was working on my Buy Miles & Points Page and found a few offers ending soon. 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 2 offers that end this week. Up first, American Airlines is offering up to a 55% bonus + 10% discount, depending on the number of American Airlines AAdvantage Miles you purchase. This offer expires on March 6.
Good afternoon everyone. Yesterday, I received an email from BJ’s Wholesale Club that my membership was going to renew on April 1, 2020. I don’t live near a BJ’s Wholesale Club and only signed up for the $10 online membership to buy gift cards, but I do not do gift card reselling anymore and haven’t bought anything from BJ’s Wholesale Club in 6+ months. Unfortunately, the process to cancel my membership is not very simple. Here are the steps I went through to cancel my membership.
Good morning everyone, I hope you had a great weekend. In a few weeks, Laura and I will head to Ireland for her spring break (she is an assistant principal, so we can only travel during school breaks). As I wrote about a few days ago, there are 8 Radisson Blu properties in Ireland and 1 property in Northern Ireland (part of the United Kingdom). We plan on staying at 5 different Radisson Blu properties on our roadtrip, including Belfast, Sligo, Limerick, Cork, and then Dublin Airport. In this post, I will show you the point redemptions and share a photo of the hotels from the Radisson Blu website.
Good morning everyone, I hope your weekend is going well. Yesterday, I booked an American Airlines flight from New York (LGA) to Dallas (DFW) to Orange County (SNA) for Laura and myself (we plan to check out the Centurion Lounges in LGA and DFW during our trip). With my American Express Gold Card, I get a $100 airline fee credit to use each year to cover seat assignments, checked bags, in-flight drinks/snacks, etc. I decided to use my $100 airline fee credit to purchase preferred seats for our American Airlines flights.
Unfortunately, American Express has a weird system that will automatically enroll you in last year’s airline choice if you do not make a change by January 31. Since I selected Southwest Airlines in 2019 (when buying Southwest Airlines eGift Cards triggered the credits), that was who my airline choice was for 2020. Thankfully, you can change your airline choice if you do not use any of the credit in the current year. Instead of calling American Express, I clicked the Chat button in the lower right corner of the screen.
I typed in my comment and the automated system asked me a few questions. After going through the prompts to change to American Airlines, I thought the Chat box was going to make the change for me, but unfortunately, I had to be connected to human. After confirming my airline choice, the agent processed my change. I’m not sure why the Chat box could not do it by itself, but the whole process only took a few minutes.
Good morning everyone, I just received an email from Chase about their new partnership with Groupon. If you are a Chase credit card holder, you can now earn 10% back in Groupon Bucks for your Groupon purchases, up to a $50 monthly limit. All you need to do is opt into the partnership and use your Chase credit card to earn the 10% Groupon Bucks. Groupon Bucks are similar to eBay Bucks in that you earn them on Groupon purchases and you can redeem them for future Groupon purchases (more details below).
