Originally Posted by
mnscout
Nope, can't be that. Because aside of NPR, I also remember the articles in Forbes, LAT, Money Magazine, not even mentioning the WSJ article conspicuously called
"Miles for Nothing: How the Government Helped Frequent Fliers Make a Mint" that was written
in 2009! Yet, the festivities continued unabated for another two years after that. Why didn't that article kill Mint in 2009?
Forgive me, but blaming bloggers with their tiny number of followers compared to those national publications, is beyond ridiculous. The government killed the deal because the Mint was bleeding money, and someone somewhere had to stop it at some point. Would've happened with or without bloggers and NPR.
And the mint kept putting more restrictions into place after that article ran. Soon after that article was published in the WSJ there was the restriction of $1,000 in coins every 10 days. Sometimes there would be back orders on coins. I wasn't blaming the bloggers though. It was brought up by another poster these deals get killed when it starts getting rubbed in their face which is what happened with the mint. People started bragging and running their mouths to mainstream media sources.