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milester Apr 10, 2013 6:19 pm
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DallasEsq Apr 10, 2013 7:16 pm
I must say for those open to various hotel programs, Club Carlson has some great promos. Today I rented a car from Avis for 4 days over Memorial Day weekend (out of LAX) for $95 all-in, plus I get 7500 Club Carlson points for a rental 3+ days. This amount of points is worth 1 night in a Category 2 hotel if you have the Club Carlson credit card.

xxpert Apr 10, 2013 8:13 pm
Originally Posted by ferrari_fan (Post 20568176)
Yah I want those $500 Girl Friends back :p
hahaha a certain section on craigslist may still have some $500 GF's :D

kvs25 Apr 10, 2013 8:21 pm
Did you miss out on:
$400 cash back for the NFL card?
35,000 us air miles after first purchase on the Barclays card?
75,000 MR points on gold card with first yr fee waived?
tons of manufacturing spend?

still a pretty good quarter imo!

Boraxo Apr 10, 2013 9:21 pm
The devaluations are always a sort point in Q1. The mediocre promos certainly have not caused me to change my selection of service providers.

Nothing special so far this year but the year is young.

xxpert Apr 10, 2013 9:52 pm
Originally Posted by kvs25 (Post 20571546)
Did you miss out on:
$400 cash back for the NFL card?
35,000 us air miles after first purchase on the Barclays card?
75,000 MR points on gold card with first yr fee waived?
tons of manufacturing spend?

still a pretty good quarter imo!
No to the NFL card, cash back is nice but it wont help me get business seats to Europe :)

got the 40K US Barklcays after first use even though i already had one

The 75 MR points was nice but I already have the PRG :mad: and the 100MR platinum was nice but I already have that too :mad::mad:

PainCorp Apr 10, 2013 10:00 pm
Speaking of manufactured spend, PINs on Visa GCs. That was a Golden (or perhaps Blue, if you would rather) gift from the heavens...

philemer Apr 10, 2013 10:24 pm
Originally Posted by kvs25 (Post 20571546)
Did you miss out on:
$400 cash back for the NFL card?
35,000 us air miles after first purchase on the Barclays card?
75,000 MR points on gold card with first yr fee waived?
tons of manufacturing spend?

still a pretty good quarter imo!
Glass is half full. :) Too many pessimists running around. 2013 won't be as great as 2011 but it'll be OK. Wife and I are anticipating about 350K>400K each this year. And that's with very little manufactured spend.

No PMs. My lips are sealed. :)

wdogg Apr 10, 2013 10:25 pm
Originally Posted by benzemalyonnais (Post 20567007)
The 100k Amex Plat was a good deal.

There are lots of good fare deals out there, although many are hesitant to post good ones on FT these days
this deal came to mind but it only lasted around 12 hours.

PainCorp Apr 11, 2013 1:53 am
Originally Posted by philemer (Post 20572052)
Glass is half full. :) Too many pessimists running around. 2013 won't be as great as 2011 but it'll be OK. Wife and I are anticipating about 350K>400K each this year. And that's with very little manufactured spend.

No PMs. My lips are sealed. :)
With churning and AOR this is easy...unless you don't do that.

elagreen Apr 11, 2013 4:32 am
GetawaysRus,

We stayed in Milan last year and loved our stay~not into high end shopping.
We booked a tour with tours of milan which was wonderful. Alice met us at The Last Supper with our tickets in hand and gave us the history before the viewing. We then walked to Duomo, Galleria, Opera in which she would give us valuable info. This was one of our BEST tours we have taken in Italy and France.

Have a great trip!

slider34 Apr 11, 2013 7:30 am
Originally Posted by philemer (Post 20572052)
Glass is half full. :) Too many pessimists running around. 2013 won't be as great as 2011 but it'll be OK. Wife and I are anticipating about 350K>400K each this year. And that's with very little manufactured spend.

No PMs. My lips are sealed. :)
I'm going to let the cat out of the bag, he's signing up for credit card offers. :)

Boraxo Apr 11, 2013 11:50 am
Originally Posted by PainCorp (Post 20572581)
With churning and AOR this is easy...unless you don't do that.
+1

When I think of good deals, I think of airline and hotel promos or mistake fares.

Like the long foresaken Hyatt FFNs, the SPG Stay3Get1 resort nights, or for airlines double-EQM and mistake fares, even the (accidental?) SQ release of F seats to other FF programs. As some blogsters have posted, we are unlikely to see any good promos so long as business is strong and loads/occupancy are high.

Credit cards promos come and go, and mean little to those of us who have neither the time nor inclination to churn (nor IME any use for Carlson points).

I guess the beauty of the bonus is in the eye of the beholder.

kvs25 Apr 11, 2013 5:21 pm
Originally Posted by slider34 (Post 20573494)
I'm going to let the cat out of the bag, he's signing up for credit card offers. :)
I'm gonna blog this and make money!

Stoughton Apr 11, 2013 5:39 pm
Had a GREAT 1st Q. If the rest of the year stays like this, I'll have my best year yet.


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