View from the Wing [VFTW] discussions
Jun 10, 2020, 3:40 am
#1051
Join Date: Feb 2001
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No worries, no snark, he is back in form selling plastic
"7 Reasons You’ll Want the Best-Ever Offer for the IHG Credit Card"
"7 Reasons You’ll Want the Best-Ever Offer for the IHG Credit Card"
Jun 11, 2020, 2:35 am
#1053
Moderator: Lufthansa Miles & More, India based airlines, India, External Miles & Points Resources
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: MUC
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Posts: 48,158
Surely you jest. If BArea would exclude VFTW the overall revenue metrics will drop like a stone. Online petition? Write an email to Randy and ask him instead...
Jun 11, 2020, 4:05 am
#1055
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"Snark" .... one of those newly-fashionable words in the miles and points world that are so subjectively applied as to be of questionable worth at times.
Card approval rates for applicants in the US may have plummeted at a substantially different rate than they have for card applicants in the UK. I do wonder what percentage of VFTW's card applicants are being rejected by the banks. Applying for a card and getting rejected for the card is not good for credit scores and all that it means for the card applicant.
Some of the miles and points bloggers get their content by not missing us .... but by following some posters on FT. "Stalking" FT is not as useful as it used to be to get content, but more content = more potential eyeballs = more potential money.
Some of the miles and points bloggers get their content by not missing us .... but by following some posters on FT. "Stalking" FT is not as useful as it used to be to get content, but more content = more potential eyeballs = more potential money.
Last edited by GUWonder; Jun 11, 2020 at 4:12 am
Jun 11, 2020, 5:42 am
#1056
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Washington, DC
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Jun 11, 2020, 6:02 am
#1057
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: DFW
Programs: AA EXP, mid-tier with pretty much everyone else
Posts: 873
If you feel like boarding area needs to clean up, then fastest way would be to let people exclude certain blogs. I started a Change.org petition for it.
http://chng.it/mpRxQsXkMZ
I want to go back to loving BoardingArea again without having to worry about horrible bloggers.
http://chng.it/mpRxQsXkMZ
I want to go back to loving BoardingArea again without having to worry about horrible bloggers.
Jun 11, 2020, 7:04 am
#1058
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There is no incentive for Randy to care about quality control, as he has made very clear every six months when he comes onto this board to make spurious, self-serving accusations in a single post, and refuse to engage in any dialogue about his business practices.
Jun 11, 2020, 11:35 am
#1059
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I think that might vary -- I'm pretty experienced but I read Ben often -- while only occasionally useful in a practical sense, he's good at hitting issues I find interesting. I don't think he's getting cc money from me, but I suppose he's selling my eyeballs, and I'm fine with that. Gary, not so much -- I can't rememeber the last time I went there. I come here just for the gossip and snark.
Jun 11, 2020, 11:50 am
#1060
Join Date: Jul 2009
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I think that might vary -- I'm pretty experienced but I read Ben often -- while only occasionally useful in a practical sense, he's good at hitting issues I find interesting. I don't think he's getting cc money from me, but I suppose he's selling my eyeballs, and I'm fine with that. Gary, not so much -- I can't rememeber the last time I went there. I come here just for the gossip and snark.
Jun 12, 2020, 12:13 pm
#1061
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I enjoy reading VFTW often enough, but there is no way I'm providing VFTW any big buck contributions as I'm not in the market for new, blogger-peddled credit/charge cards.
Jun 12, 2020, 6:21 pm
#1062
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Jun 13, 2020, 1:08 pm
#1063
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Jun 13, 2020, 1:17 pm
#1064
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Jun 14, 2020, 4:22 am
#1065
Join Date: Feb 2001
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