Minting the luggage cart at FRA
May 20, 2012, 1:44 pm
#1
Used to be highman123
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Minting the luggage cart at FRA
This one is involving real manual labor - so not for me 
At FRA airport you can pay for your luggage cart with a miles earning card and you'll get the deposit (2 EUR) back in CASH when you return the cart.
There seems to be no limit in place.
So a long layover in FRA can 'easily' net you 10k miles and a ton of EURO coins. It's also a nice cash advance.
At FRA airport you can pay for your luggage cart with a miles earning card and you'll get the deposit (2 EUR) back in CASH when you return the cart.
There seems to be no limit in place.
So a long layover in FRA can 'easily' net you 10k miles and a ton of EURO coins. It's also a nice cash advance.
May 20, 2012, 1:55 pm
#2
Join Date: Nov 2010
Posts: 496
The earning rate is just too slow...
Assume that you use Chase Sapphire Preferred Card and suppose that it is counted as travel expenses. At a 2% cashback rate, 1000 such transactions will make 2547 miles for free. Points can be converted to miles at a 1:1 rate.
If you use Chase Freedom Card with a Chase checking account, you earn 10 points per transaction in addition to the 1% cashback. However, there is a 3% foreign transaction fee. With some simple calculation, we see that every 1000 transactions make 11547 miles at a cost 60 EUR, which is about 76.42 USD. The rate is 0.662 cpm.
Assume that you use Chase Sapphire Preferred Card and suppose that it is counted as travel expenses. At a 2% cashback rate, 1000 such transactions will make 2547 miles for free. Points can be converted to miles at a 1:1 rate.
If you use Chase Freedom Card with a Chase checking account, you earn 10 points per transaction in addition to the 1% cashback. However, there is a 3% foreign transaction fee. With some simple calculation, we see that every 1000 transactions make 11547 miles at a cost 60 EUR, which is about 76.42 USD. The rate is 0.662 cpm.
May 20, 2012, 2:01 pm
#3
Join Date: Oct 2009
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But you need a Euro credit card with pin chip to avoid exchange fees or bum exchange rates? Hmm....how do I get that euro credit card?
But we gotta have proof this works before it gets in Now for Something Completely Different. I'd rate it somewhere between moving the dead for miles and buying a musical toilet for miles.
Will it work in other airports? Could we see cart runs in the future?
But we gotta have proof this works before it gets in Now for Something Completely Different. I'd rate it somewhere between moving the dead for miles and buying a musical toilet for miles.
Will it work in other airports? Could we see cart runs in the future?
This one is involving real manual labor - so not for me
At FRA airport you can pay for your luggage cart with a miles earning card and you'll get the deposit (2 EUR) back in CASH when you return the cart.
There seems to be no limit in place.
So a long layover in FRA can 'easily' net you 10k miles and a ton of EURO coins. It's also a nice cash advance.
At FRA airport you can pay for your luggage cart with a miles earning card and you'll get the deposit (2 EUR) back in CASH when you return the cart.
There seems to be no limit in place.
So a long layover in FRA can 'easily' net you 10k miles and a ton of EURO coins. It's also a nice cash advance.
May 20, 2012, 2:24 pm
#4
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Can we ask FraPort to raise the deposit requirement to 100€?
May 20, 2012, 6:02 pm
#5
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But you need a Euro credit card with pin chip to avoid exchange fees or bum exchange rates? Hmm....how do I get that euro credit card?
But we gotta have proof this works before it gets in Now for Something Completely Different. I'd rate it somewhere between moving the dead for miles and buying a musical toilet for miles.
Will it work in other airports? Could we see cart runs in the future?
But we gotta have proof this works before it gets in Now for Something Completely Different. I'd rate it somewhere between moving the dead for miles and buying a musical toilet for miles.
Will it work in other airports? Could we see cart runs in the future?
May 20, 2012, 8:55 pm
#7
formerly known as felinaar
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The earning rate is just too slow...
Assume that you use Chase Sapphire Preferred Card and suppose that it is counted as travel expenses. At a 2% cashback rate, 1000 such transactions will make 2547 miles for free. Points can be converted to miles at a 1:1 rate.
If you use Chase Freedom Card with a Chase checking account, you earn 10 points per transaction in addition to the 1% cashback. However, there is a 3% foreign transaction fee. With some simple calculation, we see that every 1000 transactions make 11547 miles at a cost 60 EUR, which is about 76.42 USD. The rate is 0.662 cpm.
Assume that you use Chase Sapphire Preferred Card and suppose that it is counted as travel expenses. At a 2% cashback rate, 1000 such transactions will make 2547 miles for free. Points can be converted to miles at a 1:1 rate.
If you use Chase Freedom Card with a Chase checking account, you earn 10 points per transaction in addition to the 1% cashback. However, there is a 3% foreign transaction fee. With some simple calculation, we see that every 1000 transactions make 11547 miles at a cost 60 EUR, which is about 76.42 USD. The rate is 0.662 cpm.
May 20, 2012, 10:39 pm
#8
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Location: Madison, WI, USA
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Use the United Club Visa. 1.5 miles per dollar on all transactions with no foreign transaction fees. After 1,000 cart rentals, you would earn 1,500 miles for free. But still too slow. You would need 16,667 transactions for a free domestic flight in the U.S. Assuming 30 seconds per transaction, that would be about 5.8 days of renting carts and returning them.
Of course, Chase would probably look askance at over $16K of purchases in 2 Euro amounts all within 2 days+.
May 20, 2012, 11:59 pm
#9
Join Date: Sep 2008
Posts: 101
Let's not forget to Mention you would have to have really large pockets to carry 6514 2€ coins around. Have fun lugging those around.... Kinda reminds me of some other coins some of us were lugging around for a few years
May 21, 2012, 3:40 am
#10
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Cypress Hills Research Center
Posts: 5,295
Sounds like too much work. Why not just hang around places which have a large number of cash paying customers and ask them (the customers) to pay you in cash and let you pay the merchant with your credit card.
If the merchant has problems with this, just say it's part of a social protest and claim First Amendment protection, or the EU equivalent.
If the merchant has problems with this, just say it's part of a social protest and claim First Amendment protection, or the EU equivalent.
May 21, 2012, 4:18 am
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May 21, 2012, 4:49 am
#12
Join Date: Nov 2009
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You just need to sacrifice 2 euro and use one of the carts to push all your coins around in like a giant box or something
May 21, 2012, 7:56 am
#13
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May 21, 2012, 11:59 am
#14
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Another deal out in the open now, can't wait until they stop this one too. </Sarcasm>
May 21, 2012, 12:04 pm
#15
Used to be highman123
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Santander Bank, Terminal 1, Bereich B, Ebene 3
Open every day and providing 'full service'. Plus this is for a good cause - giving 'large' deposits to Spanish banks is rare these days!
So nothing stands in the way of the next 'pudding man' aeeh 'cart man'...