Your Strategy Including Total Cost & Miles
Plotted out my 2011 strategy / estimated cost today. I was a little worried I might be spending more than 1 cent per mile but looks like it will be about 0.8 cents per mile. EDIT: now under 0.6 cents per mile with cheap "no show" hotel / rental car options (I paid more but figured this list might help others). I don't see a reason to do more than 36 hits (the last 4 hits just aren't worth the extra 10K or EQMs to me). I only counted a cost for things I wouldn't have done outside the grand slam. For example, I already subscribe to netflix, so no cost to put on hold and sign up under a new email. My Ameritrade cost is lost interest on $2500 for 6-9 months (I just plan to park it). I rounded estimated costs to the nearest $5 and ignored trivial miles.
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Hits Desc Cost Miles
1 3 toolbar searches - -
1 points.com swap - -
1 Dividend Miles Dining - -
1 e-Miles - 500
1 Magazines for Miles - (400)
1 Netflix - -
1 Thanks Again - -
1 Shopping Mall - -
1 US credit card - -
1 OfficeMax 10 -
1 ShareBuilder 10 2,500
1 SkyMall 15 -
1 Audience Rewards 15 100
1 Biscoff 15 250
1 SuperShuttle 15 50
1 1800Flowers 20 300
1 TrackItBack.com 25 400
1 Network Solutions 25 2,000
1 US debit card 30 3,000
1 share miles (1/2) 20 -
1 buy miles 30 1,000
1 SPG buy / swap 35 1,000
1 FTD.com 35 500
1 TD AMERITRADE 40 5,000
6 rental car 150 300
6 hotel stay 180 1,500
36 Grand Slam Hit Bonus 100,000
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$670 118,000
Last edited by HikerT; Sep 23, 2011 at 1:17 am
Reason: Found $30 hotel and $25 rental car hits