Originally Posted by
Mountain Trader
I think the odds on good promotions will be much higher if people don't haul the whole promotion game onto national TV or the mainstream press.
Yeah, we certainly don't want anything like Alec Baldwin screaming about 100K CapOne points all over TV.
Oh, that's right, he did. . .
Cards with big bonuses are promotions intended for the general public. Banks want credit card customers. And not just customers off FT. Publicity about big offers is, in fact, what the banks want.
Bumping bonuses and "two browser" tricks, on the other hand, are ways to use promotions in ways the companies may not have intended for the general public. Still, with all the publicity here and in the travel blogs, those loopholes have not been completely closed although bumping has clearly been curtailed.
And, believe me, if somebody hadn't posted about these techniques here on FT or in the travel blogs, 99% of the people who took advantage of them would never have known about them.