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PSA: Check Existing Southwest Airlines Flights for Price Drops, then Rebook

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Good morning everyone, greetings from rainy/windy Super Bowl City (San Francisco).  I just got an email from Southwest Airlines regarding their current flight sales.  In most cases, Southwest Airlines flight sales would not be newsworthy, but if you are an experienced/savvy Southwest Airlines flier, you know that Southwest Airlines lets you make free changes and cancellations to existing reservations.  I keep a spreadsheet on my computer (saved to OneDrive and available on my iPhone) that shows all my upcoming flights.  I book a lot of flights and sometimes I forget when I book flights (and I accidentally booked 2 trips for the same weekend #facepalm).

SWA Last Call Email

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3 Bay Area Meetup Events between February 15-20 (Super Duper Burger, WeWork & In-N-Out)

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Good morning everyone.  Yesterday, I flew from Dublin to San Francisco (DUB-SFO) on Aer Lingus in economy (gasp!) and I am getting back to my usual postings.  I am excited to announce a few new Bay Area meetup events for the near future.

For President’s Day Weekend (and Valentine’s Day), I will be taking the California Zephyr‎ Amtrak from Denver to Emeryville (Oakland/SF) with a few travel hacker friends from Denver/Boulder (creators of the Front Range Travel Hackers Meetup Group).  They wanted to do a little meetup on President’s Day (February 15), so if anyone is in SF and wants to talk miles and points, come join us.  We are going to Super Duper Burgers on Market Street (located between Montgomery and Powell Street BART stations).

  • Where: Super Duper Burgers, 721 Market St, San Francisco, CA 94103 (Google Maps)
  • When: Monday, February 15 @ 12-2pm

Super Duper Burgers Yelp

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$2 Off Visa Gift Cards Purchased from Gift Card Mall (Promo Code NewYou2016)

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Good morning everyone.  I just received an email from Gift Card Mall about a promotion going on now through January 29 for $2 off Visa Gift Cards when you use promo code NewYou2016.  (The links are affiliate links and I earn a commission on your purchase – thank you for supporting Travel with Grant.)

Gift Card Mall $2 Off Promo Code NewYou2016

I wanted to test various ordering amounts to determine the optimal order size.  I started with 1 Visa Gift Card at $500.

Gift Card Mall $500 American Flag VGC

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Reader Feedback Needed: Which Blog Posts Should I Write First?

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Good morning everyone, I hope your weekend is off to a great start.  There are a few blog post ideas floating around in my head, so I wanted to ask you guys what you would want to read about.  I will still post random AMEX Offer posts and other random deals as they come up, but I also want to get some of these ideas out of my head and onto the web.

Thank you for your help and have a great weekend everyone!

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American Express Serve Card Bulk Account Shutdowns / Terminations

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Black Friday!  No, not the busiest shopping day of the year, but the day AMEX Serve sent out mass account closure emails with the subject line “Termination Of Funds Loading Capabilities on Your Serve® Account.”  My account was flagged due to “observed unusual usage patterns.”  I will explain what I was doing below, but here is what my email looks like:

AMEX Serve Termination Email

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