Good evening everyone, this is a targeted offer for certain US Bank FlexPerks Credit Card customers. You may have received the following email regarding the e-Reward promo. After joining e-Rewards through the special promo link, you will receive 250 FlexPoints after completing one e-Rewards survey.
Good afternoon everyone, I have 4 new AMEX Offers for Adidas, Exhale Mind Body Spa, Perfume.com, and Soap.com. I also have an update on the recent US Bank FlexPerks promo for spending $5,500 on “holiday shopping.” Here are the details of the AMEX Offers:
Good morning everyone, just a few quick credit card related pieces of information to pass on. Back in October, I wrote about the US Bank and Visa Checkout promo. It looks like the 1,000 bonus FlexPoints just posted to my account a few days ago. If you signed up for the promo, you should see your bonus points post soon. I also found out that I had spent over $24,000 on my US Bank FlexPerks Credit Card, which earned me 3,500 bonus FlexPoints. Apparently, I can redeem 3,500 FlexPoints to pay for my $49 annual fee. I plan on calling US Bank and asking them to waive the annual fee. I didn’t spend $24,000 on their card to not have to pay the annual fee, that is ridiculous. I will let you know how that call goes in a few months.
The purpose of this post is not to debate the moral or ethical issues behind throw away / hidden city tickets, but rather to share my friend’s costly story. For those unfamiliar with throw away / hidden city tickets, the concept is pretty easy to understand:
Airlines obviously frown upon this technique (similar to my card counting analogy from yesterday) and discourage passengers from booking throw away / hidden city tickets. I unintentionally used this technique when I was coming home from Dublin with my family a few years back. The outbound route was LAX-BOS-DUB and the inbound route was DUB-ORD-LAX on United / Aer Lingus. I wanted to visit my grandparents in Atlanta, so instead of flying the last segment (ORD-LAX) with my family, I bought a ticket to ATL on Delta. I believe this is technically considered throw away / hidden city ticketing, but I didn’t care. It would have cost more money to change my United ticket from ORD-LAX to ORD-ATL than it cost to buy a separate Delta ticket from ORD-ATL. There is a lot of gray area, as you can probably tell.
I’ve written about FlexPerks a few times:
Up until last night, I did not know there was an American Express version of the US Bank FlexPerks credit card (Thanks Will @ Doctor of Credit). Surprisingly, there are 4 personal and 1 business FlexPerks credit cards, who knew?
I signed up for the Visa Signature version during the 2014 Winter Olympics promo when the sign up bonus was 7,450 FlexPoints higher than the standard 20,000 FlexPoints offer.
