HadesNL

I am on team George on this one.

Why?

- bloggers pimping credit cards to often masking as advice
( not just one mentionbut ACT NOW! DO IT! REMINDER! WE BOOKED THIS FLIGHT/HOTEL WITH! TOP CC FOR THIS MONTH! LAST CHANCE! REMINDER!~ blatant advertising instead of travel-related / travel advice )

- honesty and biased
( just say your income is dependent on referreals and this is how you attain these trips and keep this lifestyle, preferrential treatment is received due to being too profilic / having contacts with customer service management of reviewed products/services ~ inventory opening up, triple upgrades, endorsing products and services without analysis of effect for beginners, intermediate and experts with short / long term implications)

- The HOBBY (argh term) is mainstream
( groan need i say more; saturation has reached among the FT/BA readers so lets target/entice/impress/snare/bind/addict/condition newbies from the mainstream audience: Rolling Stone magazine, Daily Mail, CNN, Hello Australia, FTU, Conde Nast, Youtube, Kickstarter: a bigger audience has more draining on limited FFP resources so this forces companies to rethink their priorities and allowances)

What made me as a Dutch person think like this:
1)At a certain FTU in the Netherlands people were already orgasming about F travel, all attainable by purchasing Avianca or Alaska miles. People were lamenting our non-existing dutch CC signup bonuses, feeling envious of those who can. No sensibility about credit implications, thoughts of buying a volatile miles currency, being dependent on Avianca's FFP situated in a banana republic, being dependent on Alaska's FFP which received so much exposure on its loops.

2)We don't even have a mainstream CC cashback in the Netherlands, for most ordinary users the only major CC benefit among Dutch providers is no foreign fee transaction costs.

3) credit is not an asset but a liability, it can't pay fines or satisfy the bailiff