Originally Posted by
queensgambit
This all really sucks because I hired a "points coach" who worked for TPG for several years and seemed legitimate and yet didn't mention a single thing about "being careful" and "reading reading reading". At this point if I were to maintain a blog or offer consulting services the first thing I would ever tell anybody is to be extremely careful, read FT as much as possible and then read more. FML
Wait! I thought the TPG and the others offered "free credit card suggestions" and the payoff was giving you the referral links to use. I didn't realize they charge for the service. Holy Moly... a paid consultant should have definitely suggested that you take it easy... I think the usual suggestion is one biz/one personal card per issuer, every 90 days. This has evolved a bit since the olden days, but is still pretty sound advice.