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Old Dec 3, 2011 | 3:02 pm
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aubreyfromwheaton
15 Years on Site
 
Join Date: Jun 2010
Programs: Whatever's Cheapest, Accruing Miles, Redeeming for Premium Cabins, Not Chasing Status Unnecessarily
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Post Promo Depression / Rant

I've spent the year getting new cards and fulfilling promo bonuses...

Looking to pick a card to use primarily now, until the next big one...

but it's pretty depressing only getting 1 MR pt per $ or 1.25 BA Adios or 1 UR pt or 1 Citi TYP for most purchases, or a couple three pts for certain categories, BAH!

It's too much work trying to optimize for a few piddly points. (getting 10 miles per point or 20 miles per point when spending $100 that you may not have spent just chasing points is not worthwhile unless you would have spent anyway, and it becomes a bit easy to say well I'm getting 2-3 cpp and 15 points per $ spent so this thing is 45% off, I should buy it etc)

And chasing the various malls and making sure the doubledipped points will post is exhausting.

I like getting 30K or 50K or 100K for a few $1000K in spending without thinking.

I was going to get the WN card(s), but I'm waiting for January and I think it's gone anyway now.

Maybe I'll try the CO card? I dunno.

And then I don't feel like chasing MQM's on DL...cuz it's so random whether you will be offerred an easy promo for status, or they will devalue the status so much anyway that what's the point of trying to get 10k mqm's to make FO in 2013 by rollover.... BAH!

I think I'm going to just go for the easy 2% on Alec Baldwin's Card until another good promo comes.
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