Reddit - Miles & Points
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Reddit - Miles & Points
Maybe I'm late to the game, but there are a couple of M&P related subreddits:
https://www.reddit.com/r/awardtravel
https://www.reddit.com/r/churning
I haven't really read through either of the above yet but am curious if anyone here has found them useful/reliable/timely in general? Any other subreddits that would be of interest to us?
https://www.reddit.com/r/awardtravel
https://www.reddit.com/r/churning
I haven't really read through either of the above yet but am curious if anyone here has found them useful/reliable/timely in general? Any other subreddits that would be of interest to us?
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Do you think that's significantly different from FT? I read lots of posts here from people who have tons of points and no idea how to use them.
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#8
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The impression I get is there are more noobs on r/churning and that want to be spoonfed. The noobs head to r/churning because FT isn't friendly to noobs wanting to be spoonfed. Maybe because I don't read trip reports on FT but there's people that have been churning for 2 years to finally blow their load on one trip. Totally inefficient way of using points imo. They're churning 10 cards to have 1 trip like TPG.
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The impression I get is there are more noobs on r/churning and that want to be spoonfed. The noobs head to r/churning because FT isn't friendly to noobs wanting to be spoonfed. Maybe because I don't read trip reports on FT but there's people that have been churning for 2 years to finally blow their load on one trip. Totally inefficient way of using points imo. They're churning 10 cards to have 1 trip like TPG.
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Yeah to me r/churning tilts a little younger and a less business frequent flyer crowd than FT on average (obviously there is a lot of cross over including myself between the different forum).
In general though, I have found r/churning to be more college students or folks just looking for "free" vacations and will go to strange lengths to not spend any out of pocket money on a trip. For example people will boast about a cash-back redemption to wipe out an Uber ride lets say, or opening a bank account and getting a sign up bonus and then applying that to a trip. To me cash is cash, you could have done anything with that, paid your car payment, gone to the mall, etc.
Compare that to FT where I think the goal is more of a highest return per mile. People boast about trips in F/J, or 5* hotel redemptions that they were able to secure for a very low number of points compared to what it would have cost in dollars.
In general though, I have found r/churning to be more college students or folks just looking for "free" vacations and will go to strange lengths to not spend any out of pocket money on a trip. For example people will boast about a cash-back redemption to wipe out an Uber ride lets say, or opening a bank account and getting a sign up bonus and then applying that to a trip. To me cash is cash, you could have done anything with that, paid your car payment, gone to the mall, etc.
Compare that to FT where I think the goal is more of a highest return per mile. People boast about trips in F/J, or 5* hotel redemptions that they were able to secure for a very low number of points compared to what it would have cost in dollars.
#15
Join Date: Mar 2015
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Reddit definitely feels like a younger crowd that has less money and more time to travel. I don't post there often but get down voted in any travel threads when recommending higher end redemption options. A lot of the travel subreddits seem to focus on backpacking and staying in hostels for months, which is something most people can't do once you get a steady job and have a mortgage. I'd much rather spend the limited vacation time I have in as lavish an environment as possible, but I understand stretching things if money is the limitation versus time.