Last week, we reported on the Citi Prestige 5x promotion for online purchases. The promotion is in effect from 6/2 through 8/31/2020. Its terms were a bit vague, but in general it promised a total of 5x ThankYou Points (TYPs)…
Citi Prestige Promo for 5x on Online Purchases & Our Plans for Using It
Introduction and Details of the Promo Last week, Citi introduced a promotion for bonus ThankYou Point (TYP) earning on its premium Prestige card – 5x TYPs for online purchases. Oddly, the promotion wasn’t formally announced; rather, the Citi PR team…
Setting Up a ThankYou Points Experiment (and Converting My Last Citi AA Platinum Card)
Introduction & Background For many months, we’ve wanted to conduct a Citi ThankYou Points (TYPs) experiment to determine whether it would be possible for a single person to get the 10,000-TYP rebate from the Citi Rewards+ card twice per year.…
Citi Targeted Bonus Points Offers at Renewal Time
Introduction Citi often sends out targeted “bonus points” offers on its cards around the time of renewal, when they want to entice you to pay a new annual fee. We recently received one of these offers and thought it was…
What’s In Our Wallet 2020? Part 3: Our “Spend Matrix” – How We Use Bonus Categories to Maximize Our Points-and-Miles Earning and Travel for Less
This article is Part 3 of our “What’s In Our Wallet 2020?” series. Here are links to Parts 1 and 2, and once published, we’ll add a link to the Epilogue. * Part 1 – What’s In Our Wallet 2020?…
What’s In Our Wallet 2020? Part 2: Why We Acquired and Hold Each Card
This article is Part 2 of our “What’s In Our Wallet 2020?” series. Here are link to Parts 1 & 3, and once published, we’ll add a link to the Epilogue. * Part 1 – What’s In Our Wallet 2020?…
Tidbits About TYP Earning from Our Citi Prestige Statement
Introduction First off, thanks to all of our readers for your patience for the past 3 weeks. Between our Cyprus-Jordan trip, Thanksgiving travel, and a huge personal project, there’s been precious little time to write Middle Age Miles articles at…
Confirming a Great Hidden Benefit – Citi Prestige 5x TYPs on Travel Agencies
Introduction In the points-and-miles hobby, as in many other parts of life, a lot of the things we “know” are only because someone else told us, or at least pointed us in the right direction. In this case, a benefit…
Citi Prestige Cell Phone Protection Coverage Goes Into Effect Today (May 1)
Late last year, Citi announced a number of changes to its premium Prestige credit card, including a new and mostly positive points-earning schedule that took effect in January and benefit-gutting changes the the card’s 4th-night-free benefit that go into effect…
Keep or Cancel – Citi Prestige – and Did I Get a Retention Offer?
Executive Summary The $450 annual fee recently posted on my Citi Prestige Mastercard. We performed our usual review of the benefits of the card compared to the annual fee and made retention calls to Citi. In summary: We decided to…