credit card churning

[steve dave]

Started a spreadsheet to keep track of everything.  Signed up for:

AA personal card for 30K after spending $750 in 90 days
Frontier card for 40k after spending $750 by 2/15 (have to pay $40 fee)
Starwood personal card for 10K after one purchase
Starwood professional card for 10K after one purchase

Need to cancel the 2 starwood and the AA within 12 months but will cancel all after getting the points so not an issue.

[Rick Daris]

Started a spreadsheet to keep track of everything.  Signed up for:

AA personal card for 30K after spending $750 in 90 days
Frontier card for 40k after spending $750 by 2/15 (have to pay $40 fee)
Starwood personal card for 10K after one purchase
Starwood professional card for 10K after one purchase

Need to cancel the 2 starwood and the AA within 12 months but will cancel all after getting the points so not an issue.

omg, omg, omg! you'll have tunz of poyntz n stuff. 



wife not letting you do it w/ her name though? that sux. what a rookie. 

[steve dave]

http://bucks.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/the-best-credit-card-signup-bonus-ever/?hp

Thoughts    $75 annual fee.  Don't know much about BA.  Is 100,000 enough for a flight to London from Omaha?

[Rick Daris]

http://bucks.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/the-best-credit-card-signup-bonus-ever/?hp

Thoughts    $75 annual fee.  Don't know much about BA.  Is 100,000 enough for a flight to London from Omaha?

it looks like 100,000 would be enough for two flights. pretty insane deal. i might have to do it. wow.

[steve dave]

http://bucks.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/the-best-credit-card-signup-bonus-ever/?hp

Thoughts    $75 annual fee.  Don't know much about BA.  Is 100,000 enough for a flight to London from Omaha?

it looks like 100,000 would be enough for two flights. pretty insane deal. i might have to do it. wow.

So, I was messing around with their reward booking system and confirmed I can get two round trips to london for 100k like you said.  Seems rediculous.  That flyertalk place you go to was saying they will charge the f^ck out of you for fuel surchages.  But, even if it's $1k total for all fees that's a pretty cheap rate for two round trips through Hethrow.

[Rick Daris]

http://bucks.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/the-best-credit-card-signup-bonus-ever/?hp

Thoughts    $75 annual fee.  Don't know much about BA.  Is 100,000 enough for a flight to London from Omaha?

it looks like 100,000 would be enough for two flights. pretty insane deal. i might have to do it. wow.

So, I was messing around with their reward booking system and confirmed I can get two round trips to london for 100k like you said.  Seems rediculous.  That flyertalk place you go to was saying they will charge the f^ck out of you for fuel surchages.  But, even if it's $1k total for all fees that's a pretty cheap rate for two round trips through Hethrow.

i'd get just get a BA rewards account number or whatever and then call their 800 number and give them the hypothetical "how much would it be if...?"

we did AA rewards to puerta vallarta this summer and still had to pay @ 70 bucks a ticket due to fuel and airport and other type charges.

regardless, still seems like a really good deal.

this place has a couple of articles about it also. also a really good place to go and nerd out on miles, rewards programs, etc.  http://boardingarea.com

[steve dave]

So, I read a couple things about those people that "mileage run" flights.  fatty fat fat should do that as a career when he graduates. 

[Rick Daris]

So, I read a couple things about those people that "mileage run" flights.  fatty fat fat should do that as a career when he graduates. 

yeah it's a whole world of them. they even have a yearly conference to get together and nerd out about it and plan mileage run trips together and stuff. i think about fff everytime i come across one of those types of threads. pretty interesting stuff.

also, the mint just sent people who've ordered thousands of dollars worth of coins to get credit card points letters saying that they reserve the right to stop fulfilling orders for people who they suspect are doing this. didn't say they would stop, just that they know people are doing and may chose to not ship them any more coins. lol.

[steve dave]

No more AA Citi churning.  RD nails it on the rule changes coming.

[Rick Daris]

No more AA Citi churning.  RD nails it on the rule changes coming.

say it ain't so. 

link?

[steve dave]

LINK

I got something back from them this week that said I had to many applications this year as well which I thought was odd because I followed the protocol and have a great credit rating.  Checked and found that they just started doing this.  Surprised it took this long actually.  Wish I had gotten in on it earlier.  This guy almost hit 2 million miles doing it according to his blog. 

[Rick Daris]

LINK

I got something back from them this week that said I had to many applications this year as well which I thought was odd because I followed the protocol and have a great credit rating.  Checked and found that they just started doing this.  Surprised it took this long actually.  Wish I had gotten in on it earlier.  This guy almost hit 2 million miles doing it according to his blog. 

    <---------- santa is steve dave and the bag is full of the worst news ever.

[steve dave]

BoingBoing chimes in

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/12/08/airmile-hackers-use.html

[michigancat]

One FlyerTalker, identified by his online moniker, Mr. Pickles, claims to have bought $800,000 in coins. He posted pictures of the loot on FlyerTalk. 

He says his largest single deposit was $70,000 in $1 coins. He used several banks and numerous credit cards. He earned enough miles to put him over two million total at AMR Corp.'s American Airlines, giving him lifetime platinum-elite status -- early availability of upgrades for life and other perks on American and its partners around the world. He also pumped miles into his account at UAL Corp.'s United Airlines and points into his Starwood Preferred Guest program account.

LMAO.  This is why the internet is fantastic.

[Rick Daris]

BoingBoing chimes in

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/12/08/airmile-hackers-use.html

crap. blocked at work. will read when i get home. mr pickles...lol.