What is the most useful frequent flyer blog?
#2386
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan
Programs: Airline Free Agent, Fairmont Lifetime Platinum, Hyatt Globalist, Hilton Honors Diamond
Posts: 3,041
You could do even better than that!
1. First agree to split the payout.
2. Then once they've paid, send them a note and let them know you will report them to their affiliate company for providing you with a kickback for using their link unless they give you the other half of the payout.
3. Once they've paid that, tell them you want 10% of their take every month or else you report them and they'll get zero.
4. When they can't pay, threaten to break their legs.
5. Begin charging them exorbitant rates of interest when they fall behind on the payments. Just don't break their hands or else they can't blog, because if they can't blog, they can't earn.
#LittleKoko'sCollegeFund
1. First agree to split the payout.
2. Then once they've paid, send them a note and let them know you will report them to their affiliate company for providing you with a kickback for using their link unless they give you the other half of the payout.
3. Once they've paid that, tell them you want 10% of their take every month or else you report them and they'll get zero.
4. When they can't pay, threaten to break their legs.
5. Begin charging them exorbitant rates of interest when they fall behind on the payments. Just don't break their hands or else they can't blog, because if they can't blog, they can't earn.
#LittleKoko'sCollegeFund
LittleKoko will be fine^
#2387
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: SEA
Posts: 1,887
http://boardingarea.com/blogs/onemil...nsfer-partner/
#2388
Join Date: Oct 2012
Posts: 167
Well props to lucky. He managed to report the news without a single affiliate link. ^
http://boardingarea.com/blogs/onemil...nsfer-partner/
http://boardingarea.com/blogs/onemil...nsfer-partner/
#2389
Join Date: Nov 2011
Posts: 6,384
Yet they tell people without businesses to get business credit cards to then make non-business related purchases.
Hey here's a business credit card with a $5,000 spending requirement, but don't worry... you can go buy gift cards to meet that spending requirement!
Lets face it. Without manufactured spending I'm going to guess that they would stand to lose a fairly decent % of credit card referrals. Also, I would think that a majority of these trip reports could not be possible without these spending methods.
Hey here's a business credit card with a $5,000 spending requirement, but don't worry... you can go buy gift cards to meet that spending requirement!
Lets face it. Without manufactured spending I'm going to guess that they would stand to lose a fairly decent % of credit card referrals. Also, I would think that a majority of these trip reports could not be possible without these spending methods.
#2390
Original Member, Ambassador: External Miles and Points Resources
Join Date: May 1998
Location: Digital Nomad Wandering the Earth - Currently in PALMYRA, PA, USA
Posts: 58,512
Yet they tell people without businesses to get business credit cards to then make non-business related purchases.
Hey here's a business credit card with a $5,000 spending requirement, but don't worry... you can go buy gift cards to meet that spending requirement!
Lets face it. Without manufactured spending I'm going to guess that they would stand to lose a fairly decent % of credit card referrals. Also, I would think that a majority of these trip reports could not be possible without these spending methods.
Hey here's a business credit card with a $5,000 spending requirement, but don't worry... you can go buy gift cards to meet that spending requirement!
Lets face it. Without manufactured spending I'm going to guess that they would stand to lose a fairly decent % of credit card referrals. Also, I would think that a majority of these trip reports could not be possible without these spending methods.
Still, it is weird that the CC companies pay affiliate fees to bloggers who specialize in teaching people how to take full advantage (sometimes aka 'abusing') the CC companies' offerings.
#2391
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan
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Posts: 3,041
Well you have to figure that at least a few of the manufactured spending disciples are going to screw the pooch and end up carrying balances, missing payments, generally doing the things that make CC companies tons of dough.
Still, it is weird that the CC companies pay affiliate fees to bloggers who specialize in teaching people how to take full advantage (sometimes aka 'abusing') the CC companies' offerings.
Still, it is weird that the CC companies pay affiliate fees to bloggers who specialize in teaching people how to take full advantage (sometimes aka 'abusing') the CC companies' offerings.
#2392
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: RDU
Programs: A few
Posts: 5,499
Well you have to figure that at least a few of the manufactured spending disciples are going to screw the pooch and end up carrying balances, missing payments, generally doing the things that make CC companies tons of dough.
Still, it is weird that the CC companies pay affiliate fees to bloggers who specialize in teaching people how to take full advantage (sometimes aka 'abusing') the CC companies' offerings.
Still, it is weird that the CC companies pay affiliate fees to bloggers who specialize in teaching people how to take full advantage (sometimes aka 'abusing') the CC companies' offerings.
Good for us! So my mileage earning is being subsidized by the financially incapable. I am fine with that. Survival of the fittest
Seriously I do not share gpapadop's sympathy for the dopes who run up debts/miss payments etc. You gotta learn to fend for yourself.
#2393
Join Date: Apr 2012
Posts: 1,184
Read the comments on a typical newbie-oriented blog and this quickly becomes unsurprising...
#2394
Join Date: Nov 2011
Posts: 6,384
Doesn't everyone think it's a little strange that the top 5 cashback cards that TPG recommends are all affiliate links?
#2396
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: SEA
Posts: 1,887
Good grief, what horrible advice. At best 2 or 3 in his top 5 are valid. Why would he recommend Capital One Venture? Minimal sign up bonus and 3x credit pulls. That's just irresponsible blogging.
#2397
Original Member, Ambassador: External Miles and Points Resources
Join Date: May 1998
Location: Digital Nomad Wandering the Earth - Currently in PALMYRA, PA, USA
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Ok, seriously though, I AM going to apply for a UR card this week...just met my bonus threshold so need a new one. All I ask is for $100 for going through someone's affiliate portal.
There must be some desperate blog out there struggling to make their quota!
There must be some desperate blog out there struggling to make their quota!
#2398
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: CLE
Programs: UA GS+LT UC, AA EXP+LT PLT, Fairmont LT PLT, Marriott PLT, Hilton DIA, Hyatt Glob, Avis CHM
Posts: 4,650
2. There are no hard quotas that you have to exceed.
3. A blogger would have to be nuts to threaten their business dealing with kickbacks today.
Cheers.
#2399
Join Date: May 2009
Location: South Park, CO
Programs: Tegridy Elite
Posts: 5,678
Originally Posted by HikerT:20556701
Good grief, what horrible advice. At best 2 or 3 in his top 5 are valid. Why would he recommend Capital One Venture? Minimal sign up bonus and 3x credit pulls. That's just irresponsible blogging.