flyer4512

Read all the recent posts............watch your annual fee, look for finance charges that shouldn't be there, make sure your Wyndham # matches Barclay on your new card, make sure the CORRECT amount of points post EVERY month, points earned often don't match points sent to Wyndham, both are listed on your statement......make sure you are earning the correct amount of points on purchases.............The SUB, Diamond Status and 8X gas are great but the card can be a PIA as Barclay makes a lot of mistakes and oddly enough they all seem to favor them.

italdesign

Any other DP on 5x on internet service? (I see Spectrum did not work)

screeton

On the question of where we are headed.... our decision in cards is driven more by hotels that are convenient to our usual "repeat" vacation spots, and less by card annual fees, etc. At this point, Holiday Inn Express (IHG Mastercard) and Hyatt Visa, both administered through Chase Bank, are our current choices. Once we finish off the remaining Wyndham points, the Barclay card goes in the shredder. Barclay had us as a customer only by default when Wyndham got the LaQuinta brand, but at this point we are done with both Wyndham and Barclay. For us, there are far better choices and far less hassle. It is a shame how Wyndham has mishandled a fairly successful regional hotel chain like LaQuinta.

flyer4512

5X works with Spectrum. I get 5 X on my home internet/phone/cable bill and also get 5X on my Spectrum cell bill

flyer4512

IHG was great especially with the free room every year for holding either the $49 annual fee card and/or the $85 card.............we have 3 of the $49 cards and 3 of the $85 cards (my dad has the cards but doesn't travel so we use his points/nights).

Now that IHG has gone to dynamic pricing it's harder to find rooms under 40K points which is the cutoff for the free night cert.

The premium IHG card has 4th night free when paying on points but points per night have increased a lot at least in the areas we vacation.

noneemac

Just curious: how did you pay for Costco gas with a CC? I thought the only CC they accept at the pump is their own branded card.

diesteldorf

I am 99% sure that Costco accepts any Visa, since people with the old Chase Freedom were specifically avoiding upgrading their card to the Freedom Flex, a Mastercard, since it would keep them from using at Costco.

DaveH

They accept any visa for *credit* transactions.

They have an exclusive deal with Visa for this, but they also have an exclusive deal well as with Citi for their own co-branded card. Reportedly, Citi offered them *zero* merchant interchange fees for the priviledge.

Visa or MC works for *debit* transactions.

laopai

An interesting experience lately.

I paid my utility bill by using the business card last week. Instead of getting 5x rewards, I only got 1x. I sent a message to the customer support. Today, I got the response as below:

"Thank you for contacting us about your Wyndham Rewards® Earner℠ Business Card.

Upon review, we can confirm that you can earn 5 points for every $1.00 spent on utility purchases as defined as telecommunications services, cable, satellite, gas, heating oil and water as identified by the merchant category code.

Unfortunately, this merchant listed this purchase category code under "Government services not elsewhere classified". We do not have any control on how the merchant will list their category code and can not make any adjustments. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause."

Should I complain to my local government?

synergistic

Can't hurt to try! I got a friend to list as a restaurant at my favorite pub =p

tys90

I read through most of the thread but didn't see many DPs. I applied for both the Earner+ and Biz card on the same day. Both went pending. The Earner+ was approved a day later and the Biz card denied the same day. I haven't been able to call reconsideration yet due to work schedule.

It looks like it is possible to hold both. Is this because I tried to get both the same day? Should I just wait a few weeks and try again or is Barclay's too stingy?

flyer4512

Any Visa works at Costco for gas or instore/online purchases

On a side note the raised numbers on the Wyndham Business make it so it's difficult to insert the card, the card and pumps have Tap to Pay but TTP was not working on my pump today so I tried to insert the card with not luck as the raised numbers can be heard making a grinding noise which I guess messes things up

satellite779

Anyone having issues with getting the 10% off points/discounted cash rate for card holders in app (Android)? I don't see them in app but I do on the website (both desktop and mobile)

MojoGuru

The card numbers are normal, unless you've got a defect. I would be more suspicious of a skimmer at the pump.

flyer4512

Numbers are raised ever so slightly on both of our cards and Costco pumps are sealed and checked for skimmers each shift change.

I also tried my wife's card with the same issue, I then pulled out another card and it inserted and was removed fine which is why I compared the cards and noticed the slight difference