Scraping the bottom of the barrel
Mar 7, 2013 | 7:27 pm
#1
Original Poster
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: LAS, MPL
Programs: DL Platinum, 1 MM
Posts: 1,405
Scraping the bottom of the barrel
Over the last 15 months I applied and was approved for the following cards:
Chase
Sapphire Plus
United
Hyatt
Ink Bold
Ink+
Citi
AA Amex
AA Business Visa
HH Amex *2
US Bank
Flexperks Business Olympic Promo
Barkleys
US Air Mastercard
BofA
Hawaiian
Amex
SPG
Delta Gold
PRG
I am going to cool it for a few months, but in planning for my next move I am running out of fantasy as far as what cards to apply for. There is nothing more I get really excited about. I am mainly interested in international travel to Europe and South America, hotels are not that important as we have friends and family in many places.
Am I missing something? I could just wait and spend my million+ miles until a killer offer shows up. On the other hand if there is another "must have" card I'd like to know about it.
Chase
Sapphire Plus
United
Hyatt
Ink Bold
Ink+
Citi
AA Amex
AA Business Visa
HH Amex *2
US Bank
Flexperks Business Olympic Promo
Barkleys
US Air Mastercard
BofA
Hawaiian
Amex
SPG
Delta Gold
PRG
I am going to cool it for a few months, but in planning for my next move I am running out of fantasy as far as what cards to apply for. There is nothing more I get really excited about. I am mainly interested in international travel to Europe and South America, hotels are not that important as we have friends and family in many places.
Am I missing something? I could just wait and spend my million+ miles until a killer offer shows up. On the other hand if there is another "must have" card I'd like to know about it.
Mar 7, 2013 | 7:46 pm
#2
Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: fort worth, texas
Posts: 946
Why not repeat several of these cards again?
With Amex all you generally need to do is cancel the cards and wait 1 year.
With Citi (on the Hilton), BofA, and if you're lucky, Barclays, you can often churn a couple times in a year.
With Amex all you generally need to do is cancel the cards and wait 1 year.
With Citi (on the Hilton), BofA, and if you're lucky, Barclays, you can often churn a couple times in a year.
Mar 7, 2013 | 8:14 pm
#3
Join Date: Feb 2013
Posts: 120
Originally Posted by teammjs:20380793
Why not repeat several of these cards again?
With Amex all you generally need to do is cancel the cards and wait 1 year.
With Citi (on the Hilton), BofA, and if you're lucky, Barclays, you can often churn a couple times in a year.
With Amex all you generally need to do is cancel the cards and wait 1 year.
With Citi (on the Hilton), BofA, and if you're lucky, Barclays, you can often churn a couple times in a year.
Mar 8, 2013 | 4:40 pm
#6
Join Date: Aug 2011
Posts: 1,689
Over the last 15 months I applied and was approved for the following cards:
Chase
Sapphire Plus
United
Hyatt
Ink Bold
Ink+
Citi
AA Amex
AA Business Visa
HH Amex *2
US Bank
Flexperks Business Olympic Promo
Barkleys
US Air Mastercard
BofA
Hawaiian
Amex
SPG
Delta Gold
PRG
I am going to cool it for a few months, but in planning for my next move I am running out of fantasy as far as what cards to apply for. There is nothing more I get really excited about. I am mainly interested in international travel to Europe and South America, hotels are not that important as we have friends and family in many places.
Am I missing something? I could just wait and spend my million+ miles until a killer offer shows up. On the other hand if there is another "must have" card I'd like to know about it.
Chase
Sapphire Plus
United
Hyatt
Ink Bold
Ink+
Citi
AA Amex
AA Business Visa
HH Amex *2
US Bank
Flexperks Business Olympic Promo
Barkleys
US Air Mastercard
BofA
Hawaiian
Amex
SPG
Delta Gold
PRG
I am going to cool it for a few months, but in planning for my next move I am running out of fantasy as far as what cards to apply for. There is nothing more I get really excited about. I am mainly interested in international travel to Europe and South America, hotels are not that important as we have friends and family in many places.
Am I missing something? I could just wait and spend my million+ miles until a killer offer shows up. On the other hand if there is another "must have" card I'd like to know about it.
do you plan to cancel these or maintain them for credit history (age)?
Mar 8, 2013 | 7:36 pm
#7
Original Poster
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: LAS, MPL
Programs: DL Platinum, 1 MM
Posts: 1,405
I plan on keeping a few (Hyatt for the free night for $75, Sapphire and Ink Plus as a repository for my UR points, the Citi HH since they are free) and cancel the rest. AAoA is not that big an issue for me, Amex really helps there since they seem to report new accounts with the age of the oldest one - that would be more than 25 years, giving me an overall AaoA of nearly 10 years.