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Re: How Many Credit Cards Do You Have?
« Reply #775 on: April 18, 2011, 09:20:54 PM »
There's no reason to keep my AA card if I'll be getting the BA card, is there?

Yeah. There is no reason to keep the aa card period. Dump it if they are going to change you a fee or something.

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Re: How Many Credit Cards Do You Have?
« Reply #776 on: April 18, 2011, 10:15:19 PM »
:( had too many chase cards. Turned down for the BA offer  :(

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Re: How Many Credit Cards Do You Have?
« Reply #777 on: April 19, 2011, 07:09:51 AM »
:( had too many chase cards. Turned down for the BA offer  :(

call them and tell them you will dump another chase card if they will approve you. 

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Re: How Many Credit Cards Do You Have?
« Reply #778 on: April 19, 2011, 08:37:33 AM »
:( had too many chase cards. Turned down for the BA offer  :(

call them and tell them you will dump another chase card if they will approve you. 

All I had to do was move some credit line.  Took less than 5 minutes.

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Re: How Many Credit Cards Do You Have?
« Reply #779 on: April 19, 2011, 08:52:47 PM »
:( had too many chase cards. Turned down for the BA offer  :(

call them and tell them you will dump another chase card if they will approve you. 

All I had to do was move some credit line.  Took less than 5 minutes.

Great advise, will do that tomorrow

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Re: How Many Credit Cards Do You Have?
« Reply #781 on: May 01, 2011, 04:26:44 PM »
After following advice in this thread for 3 months, I have gone from about 8k in various points programs to to about 265K.  Not a penny spent on interest either

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Re: How Many Credit Cards Do You Have?
« Reply #782 on: May 01, 2011, 04:35:36 PM »
After following advice in this thread for 3 months, I have gone from about 8k in various points programs to to about 265K.  Not a penny spent on interest either

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Re: How Many Credit Cards Do You Have?
« Reply #783 on: May 01, 2011, 04:40:42 PM »
alright, i'm gonna have to get in on all this.

want to take trips with the gf and stuff, just not sure where to start.

my dad, a financial advisor, would not approve, to say the least.

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Re: How Many Credit Cards Do You Have?
« Reply #784 on: May 01, 2011, 06:00:35 PM »
alright, i'm gonna have to get in on all this.

want to take trips with the gf and stuff, just not sure where to start.

my dad, a financial advisor, would not approve, to say the least.

Do the British Air Chase card to start.  The 100k deal is up May 6th iirc. 

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Re: How Many Credit Cards Do You Have?
« Reply #785 on: May 01, 2011, 07:17:12 PM »
After following advice in this thread for 3 months, I have gone from about 8k in various points programs to to about 265K.  Not a penny spent on interest either

413,427

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Re: How Many Credit Cards Do You Have?
« Reply #786 on: May 01, 2011, 07:19:08 PM »
After following advice in this thread for 3 months, I have gone from about 8k in various points programs to to about 265K.  Not a penny spent on interest either

413,427

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Re: How Many Credit Cards Do You Have?
« Reply #787 on: May 01, 2011, 07:26:46 PM »
alright, i'm gonna have to get in on all this.

want to take trips with the gf and stuff, just not sure where to start.

my dad, a financial advisor, would not approve, to say the least.

Do the British Air Chase card to start.  The 100k deal is up May 6th iirc. 

Yeah, that deal looks amazing. Filled it out, just waiting on approval. I'm pretty new to this, what's to stop me from just taking the 50k miles for signing up, using the card one time and then cancelling?

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Re: How Many Credit Cards Do You Have?
« Reply #788 on: May 01, 2011, 07:51:09 PM »
Benja the only thing stopping you is the collective bitch slapping we would give you for not doing the 2500 to get the other 50k
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Re: How Many Credit Cards Do You Have?
« Reply #789 on: May 01, 2011, 08:36:30 PM »
alright, i'm gonna have to get in on all this.

want to take trips with the gf and stuff, just not sure where to start.

my dad, a financial advisor, would not approve, to say the least.

Do the British Air Chase card to start.  The 100k deal is up May 6th iirc. 

Yeah, that deal looks amazing. Filled it out, just waiting on approval. I'm pretty new to this, what's to stop me from just taking the 50k miles for signing up, using the card one time and then cancelling?

yes, at least spend 2500 on it to get the adnl 50k.  then there is nothing to stop you from cancelling or never using it again. 

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Re: How Many Credit Cards Do You Have?
« Reply #790 on: May 01, 2011, 08:37:40 PM »
After following advice in this thread for 3 months, I have gone from about 8k in various points programs to to about 265K.  Not a penny spent on interest either

413,427

 :horrorsurprise:

And that's after using miles for 2 RTs to Hawaii, Florida twice, NY & San Fran with multiple hotel stays at each in just the last 12 months. 

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Re: How Many Credit Cards Do You Have?
« Reply #791 on: May 01, 2011, 08:49:11 PM »
368,195 after using 80K in the last month.

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Re: How Many Credit Cards Do You Have?
« Reply #792 on: May 01, 2011, 09:26:05 PM »
just a reminder for those who signed up for the Venture card, if you haven't matched your miles (like me), THE 45 DAYS is up on a week or so....

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Re: How Many Credit Cards Do You Have?
« Reply #793 on: May 01, 2011, 09:30:08 PM »
just a reminder for those who signed up for the Venture card, if you haven't matched your miles (like me), THE 45 DAYS is up on a week or so....
yeah I think your mumped. could be wrong though

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Re: How Many Credit Cards Do You Have?
« Reply #794 on: May 01, 2011, 10:47:02 PM »
just a reminder for those who signed up for the Venture card, if you haven't matched your miles (like me), THE 45 DAYS is up on a week or so....
yeah I think your mumped. could be wrong though

nope, I reserved my miles immediately, then had 45 days to submit the paperwork.

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Re: How Many Credit Cards Do You Have?
« Reply #795 on: May 02, 2011, 07:03:39 AM »
this has all the makings of a mikeygettingfucked type turn of events.  of course, we all remember steve dave telling him he should probably submit his miles immediately a few pages back.....that said, cap one set this thing up really poorly for people who don't like fine print so I bet they cave and still give him his points. 

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Re: How Many Credit Cards Do You Have?
« Reply #796 on: May 02, 2011, 05:40:07 PM »
What's the best hotel related credit card deal out there right now.  I just got a thing from Marriot, sign up for 5 free nights.  I like marriot.
Where did you get that overnight bag?

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Re: How Many Credit Cards Do You Have?
« Reply #797 on: May 02, 2011, 06:03:06 PM »
What's the best hotel related credit card deal out there right now.  I just got a thing from Marriot, sign up for 5 free nights.  I like marriot.

that sounds good. what are the rest of the details. how many total points? yearly fees? do you have a spend that you have to meet?

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Re: How Many Credit Cards Do You Have?
« Reply #798 on: May 02, 2011, 06:18:53 PM »
What's the best hotel related credit card deal out there right now.  I just got a thing from Marriot, sign up for 5 free nights.  I like marriot.

that sounds good. what are the rest of the details. how many total points? yearly fees? do you have a spend that you have to meet?

I think he's referring to the Marriott 50k deal.  That and the Priority Club 50k are the best specials right now.  After that it's the regular 25k SPG imo. 

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Re: How Many Credit Cards Do You Have?
« Reply #799 on: May 02, 2011, 06:20:20 PM »
What's the best hotel related credit card deal out there right now.  I just got a thing from Marriot, sign up for 5 free nights.  I like marriot.

that sounds good. what are the rest of the details. how many total points? yearly fees? do you have a spend that you have to meet?
22.5k points after first purchase + 2 free nights at any category 1-4 hotel, for a total of 5 free nights.

$30 annual fee
Where did you get that overnight bag?