Originally Posted by
gpapadop
>>>>>>>>>>>Loyalty Traveler (who I very highly respect) let that slip in his blog a few days ago which led me to comment further and, oh boy, are we seeing a turn in BA blog content lately or what?
I read TBB pretty regularly and like the site. But LT's statement seems pretty clearly to be in the context of P&M bloggers universally*, not just BA. I think you jumped the shark in basing your writeup on a misreading of LT's quote.
*At least that's how it reads in his blog post. If he intended something different it didn't come out that way.
Nothing wrong with speculation (1/2 of FT threads are mostly that) but since the LT statement on revenues was the foundation of your speculation about BA bloggers' actions, it doesn't really hold up IMHO. Unless there is more info that someone has that the rest of us don't.
sbm12 - do you mean that LT's quoted statement isn't totally accurate as well? Or just the TBB post about it?
Originally Posted by
kokonutz
So often there is just so much that is NOT said in the P&M blogger space.
Yesterday, for example, VFTW did a new cashback card announcement/analysis/commercial.
In the comments someone pointed to a different blog that was calling out the VFTW post for not being totally forthcoming at the behest of Citi and instead just posting the talking points about the card that they had provided to him as an affiliate. Gary's response was
"The claim is absurd, (1) why in the world would Citibank not want me to write about how redemption works? (2) I don’t generally make “much more than $1000 per month” from Citibank?
Why in the world? Don't generally? If he were talking about Avios, Gary himself call that "a non-denial denial."
Oh well, he was on MSNBC and Marketplace this week, so he must be the expert! ^
He must be taking lessons from politicians on how to do non-answer-answers.
But hey, it's only "not much more than $1,000" so it's just pocket change anyway