After yesterday’s long News & Notes article, we had a few more things we wanted to catch up on today, mostly of the hotel promotion variety – but first, we’ll start with a new and potentially valuable Amex Offer that…
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Middle Age Miles News & Notes 1/13/20 – Staples VGC deal; AS, AA, UA portal bonuses; Marriott issues & deals; Ticket Club
New week, new Middle Age Miles News & Notes column – several interesting things to cover today: 1 – Visa Gift Card deal underway at Staples From now through Saturday, January 18, purchase a $200 Visa gift card (VGC) in-store…
New Alaska Mileage Plan eShopping Portal Bonus – Our Analysis and How We’re Playing It
The Alaska Portal Bonus Offer This morning, Alaska Mileage Plan eShopping came out with a new bonus offer for spending through its portal. The bonus offer consists of 2 tiers: Spend $150+ and earn 500 bonus AS miles Spend $300+…
Points.com Has Returned to Top Cashback – Stack with Current Hotel Points Purchase Promotions!
Introduction and Background A few weeks ago in one of our News & Notes articles, we noted that Points.com was no longer available through the Top Cashback (TCB) shopping portal. This eliminated what we thought was the best portal option…
Airline Shopping Portal Bonuses Until 12/22 – Our Analysis and How We’re Playing Them
Introduction Earlier this week, American, Alaska and United eShopping came out with “Last Minute Bonus” offers for holiday spending through their portals. Each of the bonus offers runs through Sunday, December 22, so you have a few days left to…
UPDATE: How About a 9x Transferable Points ***Plus 3% Cash Back*** Play for Amazon Purchases?
***UPDATE TO YESTERDAY’S ARTICLE*** Yesterday, we published the article that appears below, outlining what we thought was a very clever stack of deals that would result in earning 9x transferable points for gift cards you can use for future purchases…
How About a 9x Transferable Points Play for Amazon Purchases?
Introduction We love concocting and performing various points-earning experiments – sometimes for real and sometimes just for thought. Here’s a stacking strategy that we actually executed earlier this afternoon, and we wanted to do a quick post as we head…
Middle Age Miles News & Notes 11/11/19 – Great Rakuten-IHG 11%/11x deal; GC deals at Safeway & Staples; Millennium Hotels; Ticket Club; Airline shopping portal bonuses
We wanted to be sure to get a News & Notes article out this morning to capture any Veterans Day/Singles Day deals. We were hoping for more travel-related deals for this holiday, ahead of Black Friday/Cyber Monday, but the offerings…
Earn Extra Miles and Cash Back with Holiday Shopping Portal Bonuses – and How to Maximize Them with Gift Card Purchases
Last Friday, many airline shopping portals, as well as the cashback UPromise portal, came out with new November holiday bonuses. Several of these look to be very valuable. Unfortunately, when the offers were released, we were scrambling to get out…
Middle Age Miles News & Notes 10/28/19 – Safeway VGC deal; IHG PointBreaks; Apple shopping portal offers; Silvercar Amex Offer; AA new routes to NZ; Southwest schedule extension on Wed 10/30
Here are some Middle Age Miles News & Notes for this fine Monday, while we continue to work through what our strategy might be for the newly-revamped Amex Green personal card: 1. Safeway/Just 4 U – $10 off when you…