Originally Posted by
HikerT
I thought this was pretty hilarious to see on BoardingArea today:
Half of these bloggers were promoting the 25K AMEX biz plat a few months ago, no doubt due to the affiliate commission which is reported to be among the highest paid. Unfortunately, anyone who got suckered into that 25K AMEX biz plat would be excluded from this 75K biz gold offer. Just another example of affiliate commissions leading to bad advice. It's mostly about the commission, not necessarily offering the best advice to readers.
Read through the blog posts on BoardingArea, it seems each blogger found out from another blogger about the hike in points. I think from what I've seen TPG is the only one who found out from a reader.