Originally Posted by
Tr60
This thread is a BIG eye opener! 2012 was my first year churning cards netting 355K in bonuses. I thought I was on a good start until I read this thread. Can some one tell please what these acronyms stand for:
IB
OD
GC
Regarding manufactured spend, can someone point me please on how to do it on Amazon Payment and other potential methods? Excuse my ignorance.
I got the Bank Direct method.
Men & women of FT, you are amazing!!!!
I’m not an expert on these things and I didn’t stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night but I didn’t see an answer to your question so here goes. Hopefully those more knowledgeable will correct my errors.
IB: Ink Bold, a Chase charge (or credit) card which earns Ultimate Rewards (UR) points which can be transferred to any of several different airline and hotel programs and also earns multiple points, 5 per dollar, at certain types of stores (office supply I believe).
OD: Office Depot, an excellent place to charge a lot of purchases on your IB card (because you will get 5 points per dollar).
GC: Gift Card(s), I believe can be purchased with a credit card and then used sometime later (helpful for meeting a time limited spend requirement for a credit card) and might also be used when a credit card is not accepted.
I’m completely unfamiliar with Amazon Payment (?AP).
BTW, I’ve found that I can learn a great deal by Googling things and adding “Flyertalk” in the search field. For example “Amazon Payment Flyertalk” or “Bluebird Flyertalk”.
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Re: BankDirect, there are some long threads on the American Airlines forum all about BankDirect. I recall reading on one of those threads a year or 2 ago about folks who had significantly more than $200,000 on deposit with BankDirect. Suggest Google “BankDirect Flyertalk”.
Hope this helps.