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Re: How Many Credit Cards Do You Have?
« Reply #1025 on: July 11, 2011, 01:05:05 PM »
Be super friendly because they can block it even if it is available.  I would get a couple of friendly lines in, then say "any chance there is a suite upgrade available?"  Depending on where/how busy the hotel is and how many suites they have, could be unlikely because they would have to have a suite open for 5 days. 

A couple problems with longer stays, they generally will want to make 5 people happy by upgrading different people for 5 single nights than one person for 5.  Also, they are now taking all those nights out of inventory so they won't be able to sell a suite 5 days from now as opposed to just giving you one that def wasn't going to sell the day of arrival.

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Re: How Many Credit Cards Do You Have?
« Reply #1026 on: July 11, 2011, 01:09:52 PM »
Be super friendly because they can block it even if it is available.  I would get a couple of friendly lines in, then say "any chance there is a suite upgrade available?"  Depending on where/how busy the hotel is and how many suites they have, could be unlikely because they would have to have a suite open for 5 days. 

A couple problems with longer stays, they generally will want to make 5 people happy by upgrading different people for 5 single nights than one person for 5.  Also, they are now taking all those nights out of inventory so they won't be able to sell a suite 5 days from now as opposed to just giving you one that def wasn't going to sell the day of arrival.

Good points.

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Re: How Many Credit Cards Do You Have?
« Reply #1028 on: July 12, 2011, 07:45:02 AM »
Priority Club is so ridiculous with free points.  I mean, on top of all those contests and stuff that we all got a ton of points from they run multiple consecutive bonuses you can register for.  In my two night stay in Manhattan the other day my total bill was just over $200.  I had registered for about 8 or 9 different bonuses that I didn't even check to see if my nights qualified for.  For that I got:

1700 pts.   Qualifying Stay
170 pts.     10% gold member bonus
1500 pts.   new member bonus (not a new member but registered for this anyway)
3000 pts.   elite member next stay bonus
1500 pts.   welcome back bonus
3000 pts.   elite member next stay bonus (two different codes for this same bonus)
And I also have a $75 debit mastercard coming as a two consecutive weekend night bonus. 

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Re: How Many Credit Cards Do You Have?
« Reply #1029 on: July 12, 2011, 08:44:24 AM »
^ :horrorsurprise: what in the world I mean, how do I do that?

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Re: Re: How Many Credit Cards Do You Have?
« Reply #1031 on: July 12, 2011, 10:11:37 AM »
Sometimes your mind wanders and then steve dave just snaps you out of it with his relentless BITB travel agency.  If you don't become an elite travel/lifestyle consultant, then your life has no meaning.

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Re: How Many Credit Cards Do You Have?
« Reply #1032 on: July 12, 2011, 12:06:21 PM »
Start a blog SD and collect travel benefits that way.  Then let me guest post to glean a few freebies too, or review the crap you don't want to.  And hook up incredible paks in elite locales (even more than we currently do)

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Re: How Many Credit Cards Do You Have?
« Reply #1033 on: July 12, 2011, 01:15:21 PM »
Start a blog SD and collect travel benefits that way.  Then let me guest post to glean a few freebies too, or review the crap you don't want to.  And hook up incredible paks in elite locales (even more than we currently do)

The market is jam packed with them right now, unfortunately  :frown:

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Re: How Many Credit Cards Do You Have?
« Reply #1034 on: July 13, 2011, 07:39:08 AM »
sign up for a bunch of AA spam email and get up to 3k AA miles.  You can then go back in later and unsubscribe after 3 months. 

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Re: How Many Credit Cards Do You Have?
« Reply #1035 on: July 14, 2011, 07:21:51 AM »
The Fourpoints Downtown Chicago did one of those We Don't Know What The eff We Are Doing facebook promotions last night.  You like their facebook page and get 1k SPG.  So, obv, a billion flyertalk'rs liked it and the Fourpoints scrambled to end the promotion before they were put out of business.  They have to buy those miles from SPG.  I wonder what that ended up costing them.  

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Re: How Many Credit Cards Do You Have?
« Reply #1036 on: July 14, 2011, 08:31:36 AM »
The Fourpoints Downtown Chicago did one of those We Don't Know What The eff We Are Doing facebook promotions last night.  You like their facebook page and get 1k SPG.  So, obv, a billion flyertalk'rs liked it and the Fourpoints scrambled to end the promotion before they were put out of business.  They have to buy those miles from SPG.  I wonder what that ended up costing them. 

A rough guess, $5 per 1k

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Re: How Many Credit Cards Do You Have?
« Reply #1037 on: July 14, 2011, 08:38:45 AM »
The Fourpoints Downtown Chicago did one of those We Don't Know What The eff We Are Doing facebook promotions last night.  You like their facebook page and get 1k SPG.  So, obv, a billion flyertalk'rs liked it and the Fourpoints scrambled to end the promotion before they were put out of business.  They have to buy those miles from SPG.  I wonder what that ended up costing them.  

A rough guess, $5 per 1k

my god, do you know what I would do to be able to purchase 1k SPG for $5?   :horrorsurprise:

You could stay at the Sheraton we all stayed at for the NCAA tourney in OKC for $15 a night.  You could stay at the Westin Maui for $60 a night.  Someone should fire up some sort of racket with their bros/fembros.

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Re: How Many Credit Cards Do You Have?
« Reply #1038 on: July 14, 2011, 08:47:31 AM »
You could stay at the Sheraton we all stayed at for the NCAA tourney in OKC for $15 a night. 

Living like a poor man's Dylan for $450/month!  :love:

Wonder if there have been many chokeouts in the elevator bank of the Beverly Hills Hotel.

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Re: How Many Credit Cards Do You Have?
« Reply #1040 on: July 14, 2011, 01:18:00 PM »
Wow thanks for the heads up, that's a great offer
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Re: How Many Credit Cards Do You Have?
« Reply #1042 on: July 14, 2011, 06:34:33 PM »
lol, they got so bombed with hits that they had to change their avatar to:


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Re: How Many Credit Cards Do You Have?
« Reply #1043 on: July 14, 2011, 06:39:25 PM »
lol, they got so bombed with hits that they had to change their avatar to:



lol. I got my entry in but didn't get Mrs daris in time. they were just getting hammered. I happened to get on their wall and see a michigancat post and knew this thing had jumped.

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Re: How Many Credit Cards Do You Have?
« Reply #1045 on: July 14, 2011, 08:31:45 PM »
Staying at Westwood W Sunday Monday and Tuesday is free!  Good joint?

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Re: How Many Credit Cards Do You Have?
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Re: How Many Credit Cards Do You Have?
« Reply #1047 on: July 14, 2011, 09:53:11 PM »
Hemmy what card did you get? SPG amex?
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Re: How Many Credit Cards Do You Have?
« Reply #1048 on: July 14, 2011, 10:58:56 PM »
lol, they got so bombed with hits that they had to change their avatar to:



lol. I got my entry in but didn't get Mrs daris in time. they were just getting hammered. I happened to get on their wall and see a michigancat post and knew this thing had jumped.

did mine at 12:55 - apparently not soon enough  :frown:

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Re: How Many Credit Cards Do You Have?
« Reply #1049 on: July 14, 2011, 11:03:11 PM »
Hemmy what card did you get? SPG amex?

No way, I think if you ran a credit check on me it comes back with no results, my credit is so non-existent.