My $60,000 Trip Around The World In Emirates First Class For $300
Oct 30, 2015, 9:17 am
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Should be titled, "My $60,000 Boondoggle for Publicity In Emirates First Class For $300" And the story is now featured in that rag the Daily Mail. At least he didn't call it The Hobby. 
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/tr...tes-class.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/tr...tes-class.html
He said: ‘If you can't pay off your bills fully every month, please don't do this game. 'The miles game is a very complicated one to learn. There is a lot of information out there about the miles game, so everyone needs to their research and make sure they are getting the right information."
BTW - if you read the comments in the DM article, they didn't quite believe him on everything
Cheers.
Oct 31, 2015, 7:28 pm
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MMS put out how he signed up for 5 in one day (this has since been shut down). The guy who wrote about this trip said he signed up for a card every 90 days. This would have been last year as the trip took place last March.
Nov 1, 2015, 6:40 am
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Well at least he said this in the article
He said: ‘If you can't pay off your bills fully every month, please don't do this game. 'The miles game is a very complicated one to learn. There is a lot of information out there about the miles game, so everyone needs to their research and make sure they are getting the right information."
BTW - if you read the comments in the DM article, they didn't quite believe him on everything
Cheers.
He said: ‘If you can't pay off your bills fully every month, please don't do this game. 'The miles game is a very complicated one to learn. There is a lot of information out there about the miles game, so everyone needs to their research and make sure they are getting the right information."
BTW - if you read the comments in the DM article, they didn't quite believe him on everything
Cheers.
Nov 1, 2015, 6:43 am
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Nov 1, 2015, 8:06 am
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One thing that confused me was reading mrpickles & then seeing the guy in the article. We have a mrpickles on FT & that's not what he looks like/isn't where he lives. So now I'm confused.
Cheers.
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Nov 1, 2015, 9:22 am
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I probably could have made that clearer in the original post.
Nov 1, 2015, 11:55 am
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Turns out MMS and RTC were both there and despite them explicitly agreeing not to discuss/write about what was discussed at the seminar, they wrote about their own experience with that (and told other bloggers about my experience) as well as other topics I covered there.
No surprise, things have gotten much much worse since then
Live and learn.
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Nov 1, 2015, 2:25 pm
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I spoke about my own experience taking it to a much larger scale at a DD seminar in June 2014 (One of 15 DD seminars that I've done so far).
Turns out MMS and RTC were both there and despite them explicitly agreeing not to write about what was discussed at the seminar, they wrote about their own experience with that (and told other bloggers about my experience) as well as other topics I covered there.
No surprise, things have gotten much much worse since then
Live and learn.
Turns out MMS and RTC were both there and despite them explicitly agreeing not to write about what was discussed at the seminar, they wrote about their own experience with that (and told other bloggers about my experience) as well as other topics I covered there.
No surprise, things have gotten much much worse since then
Live and learn.
Nov 2, 2015, 5:05 pm
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Can't say I'm surprised, but it's definitely a contributing factor for why I haven't done any US seminars this year after doing 14 the previous couple of years.