Good evening, Chime is ringing in the new year with a new promo called Chime in the New Year. I received an email this afternoon and there are some good offers. I will show you how the promo works. If you are new to Chime, please read this post.
After you log into your Chime account, there is a new tab in the upper right corner called Resolutions (link).
Good morning everyone, I hope you are having a great holiday season with your friends and family members. Today, I have a guest post from my friend Nigel, where he is sharing his experience with his recent App-O-Rama. Take it away Nigel…
In brief, an App-O-Rama (AOR) is a strategy in the miles/points community where an individual applies for multiple credit cards within a short period of time to maximize their odds of getting approved for multiple credit cards. For me, this typically involves submitting four or more applications within seconds of each other in the hope that the banks don’t denied me for “too many inquires.”
With my Experian inquires starting to pile up from prior AORs, I wanted to limit this AOR to two Experian hits. After doing some research on the Credit Boards credit pull database (link), I discovered that applications for the Diners Club Elite Credit Card have reliably resulted in a Transunion inquiry. I was quite excited at the news, except there was one problem…
Good evening everyone, after a 6 hour drive from Irvine to Walnut Creek, I have finally settled in to my new room. My dad drove up with me and I bought him a Southwest Airlines ticket home from Oakland to Orange County (OAK-SNA) #bestdadever. As we drove, we listened to the Serial Podcast, described on their website as:
Serial is a new podcast from the creators of This American Life, hosted by Sarah Koenig. Serial will follow one story – a true story – over the course of a whole season. We’ll follow the plot and characters wherever they take us and we won’t know what happens at the end of the story until we get there, not long before you get there with us. Each week we’ll bring you the latest chapter, so it’s important to listen in order, starting with Episode 1.
If you like murder mysteries and excellent investigative journalism, you might like this podcast. If you have an iPhone, iPod, iPad, or iTunes, you can subscribe to the podcast for free, which is a weekly audio program that automatically downloads the latest episode straight to your device. You can subscribe here. The episodes come out every Thursday and I have a few more episodes to go until I am all caught up. Continue reading
Good evening everyone, this is part 3 of my Southwest Airlines Companion Pass series.
This post is probably several weeks overdue, but better late than never. I was waiting for miles and points to transfer and post, then I had to follow up with Southwest Airlines and Hyatt over some issues, and eventually this post got pushed off #backblogged.
Before I get deeper into this post, I have a personal gripe with my Chase Hyatt Credit Card. This credit card is the only travel credit card (that I know of) where points are deducted from your account if you return something or get a refund to your credit card. Recently, I canceled an airline ticket that I purchased on my Chase Hyatt Credit Card and the Hyatt Points were removed from my Hyatt account. Most other travel credit cards will not touch your miles/points if you return an item or get a refund, you will just end up with a positive balance on your credit card.
Because of this “feature” of the Chase Hyatt Credit Card, I mis-spent on my Chase Hyatt Credit Card in terms of earning Hyatt Points. Oh well, live and learn I guess.
Chase recently updated their smartphone app for iOS and Android with the ability to transfer Chase Ultimate Reward Points to their travel partners. I will show you how I recently transferred Chase Ultimate Reward Points to Southwest Airlines on my iPhone. The process should work the same on an Android phone. You can follow these steps to transfer Chase Ultimate Reward Points to any of their travel partners. Without further ado, download the Chase app to your smartphone and log into your Chase account.
Navigate to the Chase account that has Chase Ultimate Reward Points – either a Chase Sapphire Preferred (personal account) or a Chase Ink Bold/Plus (business account).
To read the entire post, please click here. Have a great Thanksgiving holiday everyone!