Originally Posted by
84fiero
Sorry to inject a fact or two into your flame on me, but you're completely quoting me out of context. I wasn't talking at all about "not being greedy with card apps" or not planning for and sequencing churns and trips in general. (Nor am I "looking for something for nothing"). In fact if you'd bothered to read my other posts I'm generally against the theory posited by the OP of this thread.
I was replying to jeautk01, specifically the bolded portion
My post was agreeing as to bloggers who are able to achieve regular miles earning at rates far exceeding what most people can, as jeautk01 commented. Bloggers who run high amounts of reimbursable expenses through personal cards, via their "award booking services" as just one example. Nowhere do
those bloggers provide context as to their earn/burn rate and sources for such, and that the average Joe probably won't be able to get comparable results without similar sources of earning for example.
Faulting bloggers for incomplete disclosure is an attempt to shift responsibility for one's decisions from the reader to the writer. Volkswagen doesn't tell us Toyota's mileage results in their ads, yet no one seems to deem them as without scruples.
If someone doesn't like what bloggers write, read something else. And if one can't or won't take the time to figure out what advice works for them, they had better read something else. And that goes for any advice-financial, medical or frequent flyer points.