Originally Posted by
slotownmomma
I'll have to nicely disagree with your view point. There are so many ways to put together a free vacation. I could write a ton of plans with all the ways I know. In my opinion, this is a simple easy way to earn a free vacation for a family of 5. Are there many other ways! Of course, I've written about others too.
If you are devising a plan, don't you think you should be incorporating the best offer for any given card? If you aren't going to do that you probably shouldn't be creating a thread about such a plan on FT.
Originally Posted by
slotownmomma
As far as misleading my readers, that definitely not the case. If you bothered to read my site before slamming me, you would have noticed that I have "Hot Deals" page which I let readers know are all the best deals I am aware of and some I do not receive referrals on but wan them to be aware of. I also solicit any reader to email me if they know of a better offer on that page that I should update.
I read your plan but didn't find anything in the plan that would tell me that the card offers in those plans are possibly not the best offers. How would a newbie know that? I don't think everyone would go through every single page on your site and so wouldn't know that there are better offers.
Originally Posted by
slotownmomma
My question to you is why are you here? Why didn't you just click to somewhere else? You obviously aren't a newbie and don't need any advice?
Just wondering?
I am here because I am obviously not omniscient and thought there might be something useful to see. I really wish FT had an ignore thread feature but since it doesn't I am forced to comment.
Originally Posted by
brasov02
Your own advice about the best way to get miles is arguable, as most all miles advice is. For instance, advising to get a couple of Sapphire cards and a BA card for Avios for domestic travel sucks for me on various levels but I'm not going to accuse anyone of "not having my best interest at heart" because that would be ridiculous.
Are you talking about earning miles or using them? If a family does want to use points/miles (and not spend money) for short haul nonstop domestic flights what would your advice be?
If I didn't make this clear, I am not questioning the usage of points. The OP's blog post mentions redeeming Sapphire points for cash back checks. I didn't say anything about that, did I? The OP links to inferior Hilton and Marriott offers which earns her commissions and then creates a thread on FT which is what I consider dishonest.
Originally Posted by
brasov02
But one of your more absurd critiques: "There are a plethora of offers there [the blog in question] which offer far below than the best offer for the same card. Why advertise them at all?" Seriously?
Show me any of the usual suspect bloggers everyone refers to around here and NONE of their blogs provide links to ONLY the best versions of each credit card with regards to their bonuses. Some are a little better at keeping them updated than others but they ALL have their own constant, standard links to the usual, standard (often inferior) bonus versions with many of them having no disclaimer or warning about that inferiority. I'm sure all this thread policing applies to everyone so I'm sure you're asking each of those other bloggers why they are advertising those cards at all too and telling them that it's clear they "don't have their readers' best interest at heart",right?
Hopefully you're not. Much better to just offer up polite, constructive criticism and hold the judging. Just a thought.
Its one thing if an offer on a blog becomes inferior because a better one comes along but to post inferior ones when you know of better offers is something I consider unethical. If you limit this to your site you can do whatever you want and I wouldn't care. But I would have to rise objection to posting threads linking to such offers here on FT.