0:42 Bank of America $300 Personal Checking Bonus (HT DoC)
- Requires $4,000 Direct Deposit in 3 months
- You need to have a checking account with BofA to quality for their Preferred Rewards program (which provides up to 75% uplift for spending on certain personal BofA credit cards)
1:30 Banco Popular Avianca Vuela Visa 60,000 Offer (HT US Credit Card Guide)
- $149 AF not waived the first year
- 40,000 first use
- +20,000 with $1,000 spend in first 3 months with code SB4060
- Deal or not a deal?
3:53 Cathay Pacific Asia Miles Credit Card 50,000 (HT DoC)
- 30,000 after $2,000 in spend first 90 days
- 20,000 after additional $6,000 spend in first 6 months
- $95 AF not waived first year
- Issued by Synchrony Bank
- Deal or not a deal?
7:10 Stop & Shop gas rewards for groceries?
- Trial for now
- Has anyone been targeted?
- 100 = $1 off groceries.
- Not as good as gas rewards for all but the smallest tanks (10 gallons = this)
- If you find yourself with expiring rewards this is a way to 'cash out' at 10/(your fill up in gallons).
- Very similar to the Safeway rewards we've discussed.
10:02 Airline Shopping Portal Bonuses (HT Frequent Miler)
- United 2,500 for $600 ends 8/18
- Alaska 1,500 for $600 ends 8/11
- Southwest 2,000 for $550 ends 8/18
- AA 2,000 for $500 ends 8/18
- Smaller bonuses for lesser amounts of spend as well
10:36 Amex Adds Weekend Night Certs to $95 AF Hilton Cards + 130,000 (HT DoC)
- Surpass/Business 130,000 + Free Weekend Night
- Both available for referral
- Free Weekend Night cert for every $15,000 spent per *calendar* year, post quickly after spend threshold met
- A whopper of a deal I say
13:12 BofA Amtrak 40,000 + $100 (HT DoC)
16:07 Free Topic: Is Hotel Status an even bigger trap than airline status?
Robert: Recent stay at Waldorf Astoria Chicago
- Near total bust from a status standpoint
- Concierge emailed ahead of time and said status entitles you to 1-level upgrade *if* space is available
- Concierge pi
