I was planning to make a blog post but I hardly came up with any material (some days are like this) so I decided to do a giveaway instead!
So, here is the scoop:
The winner get TWO United Club passes expiring 1/31/2014 and $50 Amazon Gift Cards
You can enter by leaving me a comment below or by following me at Twitter @FlyerTalkerinA2 and asking me a question there too (please follow me while at it). Hopefully I get some questions to answer here…other bloggers do it. Difference is, ANYTHING GOES. We like to keep it wacky here 🙂
No promises I will answer your question in the near future but I will do my best. It will be nice to leave an email address so I can contact you but if you are a regular reader and check regularly I guess you don’t have to.
For the record, I did not pay for these gift cards 😉 I tried to get Macy’s but Mrs. TBB told me to keep away from them lol.
Deadline is Sunday October 27th at 11.59 pm
Q: What is on your list of places to see in near future (using your points, of course?
If you could be any other blogger for a day, who would you be and what would you say? This can be any type of blog, not just travel related.
If you had a spirit animal, what would it be?
Oh, That’s a good one. This should be interesting because I am going to add ‘Why?’
If there were one all expenses paid 2 week trip to anywhere in the world for you and your family, where would you you want to take your children so that they would have a ‘maximum’ once in a lifetime experience? What would you want for them?
If you won a “boys weekend away” but you must take Ingy, where would you go and why? (You have 100,000 UR points per person to spend on this)
Shouldn’t this be a filler on Saturday? Let me know, I can make up female bots to post here…
Not entering your contest by the way. Was just a question in jest.
Well I might enter, if Mrs TBB can pose with the GC in hand, in front of a gift-card rack of a drugstore and you correctly point out which card to use. Be sure to use no less than 10 exclamation marks in the body of the post for the shocker effects!!!
How does the Mexican National Team right the ship and defeat New Zealand and make it to the World Cup?
When will you post your “Blogs I Avoid” list?
Every time I see the news and it shows the green “Health Insurance Marketplace is Open” screen of the ill-fated healthcare.gov website, I wonder just who that woman is. Do you know?
Do you own stock in Panera? 😉 (That’s a joke – none of my beezwax!)
Will you ever post the list of blogs in your Feedly?
This actually inspired me an idea.
TBB do you think it is possible one day you do a LIVE video of you going through your Feedly with audio comments? May be on the day when there is a big CHASE or AMEX card push? That would be really entertaining.
If you could wipe three travel blogs off the face of the internet, what would they be?
Do you feel bloggers should disclose that hotel links in their blogs are lucrative for them?
how so?
Usually about 1-3 percent. I do, but my blog is the exception.
Q. When will you share the secrets of the latest deal you stumbled on? What’s it been, 2 weeks now?
Say, for example, you could make one recommendation to Rene at DP. What would it be?
If Randy was willing to implement ONE of your suggestions on Boarding Area, what would it be and why?
Could you set me up with a date with FTG (the hominoid)?
Would you eat durian?
Recognizing that some bloggers will always produce content for free, but some of the best will only do so if there is some financial reward, describe what you see as a less objectionable and more sustainable business model for the miles/points/travel blogging space.
Is this your first official filler post?
Couple final questions, Georgie;
I know, nothing to do with miles, blogs hand cool pictures. None the less:
Q. What did you think when it looked like Greeces financial system was going to collapse?
Q. (selfish). Should we get in on the twitter IPO even us little guys have to buy in in the mid / upper $20’s?
If you saw Rene (DP) at the airport would you
A) buy him a drink
B) walk the other way
C) tell him to buy you a drink and you’ll stop (just for a week) writing about him
D) give him a wedgie
How much is AA status worth for someone in the WAS area? Gold, Plat and Exec Plat? Trying to decide whether it’s worth it to go for the 6/12/30k status thresholds under the fast track promo.
How do you optimize the packing of your suitcase?
What is your favorite restaurant in A2 (not a chain)?
I think I’m obsessed with miles/points blog reading! Do you have this obsession and does it negatively impact your life and if so, how do you control it?
These are great, keep them coming!
* “Formerly AngryLikeThat” but TBB recommended I change my name.
TPG notes that paying American higher fares (“Choice Essential”) gets 50% bonus miles through the end of the year. So somehow that means you should also click on his links for (inferior offers to) United Explorer and Delta American Express.
TPG: the Underpants Gnome Theory of Credit Card Pimping, “Frequent Flyer News Story + Unknown Second Step = Ka-ching”
So my question, TBB: Will TPG be on your list of blogs to avoid??? Poor disclosure practices, clearly doesn’t write to give the best possible advice to his readers. This blog is dangerous.
So I’ve been doing some reading on climate change ethics, and most of the work seems to revolve around a concept of intergenerational justice. In short, we may or may not have a duty/responsibility to aid future generations by limiting activities in the present that will adversely affect them. (It gets more complex by the fact that the people who will be most affected by climate change aren’t our own children, but are the future generations in drought-prone and coastal areas in less developed places.)
So I ask: what do you think you “owe” your future grandchildren and their generation, and why?
Note: I am way out of my depth reading moral philosophy, so don’t take my word for any of this.
I have no need for United passes, but I don’t turn down free money.
And to Mark, this is what being a wet blanket looks like.
I am also curious to your thoughts on Twiter’s IPO, but since that’s been asked…
What are your thoughts on vigilantism? (Yourself excluded, of course;)
What is the longest business trip you have ever taken?
Where would you travel if you didn’t have ANY miles or points to spend?
If you could hack the web and redirect clicks heading to any blog to another website for a day, which blog to where?
If a train leaves Philadelphia at 2:45pm traveling 87mph and a plane leaves SAN at 1:22pm traveling 512mph, how many miles do you earn?
My question is:
Do you believe that publishing a “Blogs to Avoid” list will actually serve the purpose it is created to serve?
Perhaps that is why you have hesitated to post it…Here is where I am going with this. If your intended goal is to steer unsuspecting readers away from certain blogs or generally create an awareness of the variance of quality in the miles/points blogosphere, might there be another more effective way?
All of these blogs aren’t awful all the time. In a way, this is the same kind of broad brush approach as “all of us are angry”. The blogs that might end up on your avoid list have their moments and often have insights others might miss. Wouldn’t it be more constructive to create a set of tools to encourage readers to think critically about the blogs they read? Creating a “caveat emptor” skill set might be more helpful to all.
Disagree, you have a limited amount of time in life and so you have to make some sort of bet about the expected payoff of reading a particular blog. That some blog somewhere might some time have good content doesn’t mean you should read it all the time in hopes that it does. This approach means you might miss something (though the other blogs will probably pick it up a few hours or days later) but that is always going to be the case. You can’t ready everything, unless you’re TBB!
+1 million.
Buzz, when you talk to yourself in that brain of yours, which language is it in? Greek or English
I’ve been told that people count in the language most native to them. So ifsomeone says, quick, how many vanilla reloads are in that stack, the language in which you count it out to yourself is your native language.
Do you still believe you are better or as good looking as John Stamos?
Buzz, which language do you talk to yourself in, Greek or English?
When you came to this country for the first time, what blew you away (the good and the bad)?………………PS If I win this contest, please give the prize to Grant.
Do Chase Ultimate Rewards points count towards the Southwest companion pass?
this made me laugh out loud! Bravo, sir!
How many sheets of toilet paper do you use? (Sherly Crowe says we should only use 1 square per bathroom visit to help the environment) http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2007/apr/23/musicnews.music…………………………………….lefty or righty? (2 part question)
Q: I will try to ask this question 🙂 What are the five recommend five stocks to buy and hold forever? Thanks.
What is the worst place you have ever traveled to?
What are the top 10 credit cards in your wallet?
Forgot to mention – please include links to at least 14 credit cards (and an Uber referral link, if possible) in your answer.
And please update this list every month, as this list is constantly changing. Well except when it isn’t. Which is the case 95% of the time
What are you r favorite stocks 🙂
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
Can you fly alone if you have Southwest companion pass? :p
One of the expensive lesson i learned in this hobby….
8/15: I saw a friend of mine paying around $100 in Lowes using a debit card. It was a crime happening right in front of my eyes… I jumped in and volunteered to pay with my credit card (5% Chase Freedom cashback). To date i did not get my $100 back. It was the most expensive UR points i ever earned. ($5 per UR point).
Lesson learned: Don’t get too obsessed with points.
Question: Do you have any similar experience and any lessons learned that you can share ?
Q: You have repeatedly commented that this blog is your therapy, but that the blog is too much work. How will you stay sane if you give up the blog? Will you have other means of therapy? [FYI, this was the winning post, I can feel it!]
Where are the affiliate links tho?
What’s the worst excuse for a blog post you’ve seen that exists SOLELY to pimp CC links?
Why is the sky blue?
Have you ever farted and blamed it on the dog?
Can you loan me a dollar? I promise I’ll pay you back if i win..
Which is better, Lufthansa First Class (A-380) or United Express CRJ-700 Coach?
What’s the best travel deal you have scored?
With 2 weeks and a desire to go around the world, what 3 cities/areas would you spend most of your time in?
Why on earth do you think you would get a comment from me for 2 united passes and 2 Amazon $50 cards (it does have plurality in the title) gotta run, I think the dog just farted.
I’m not gonna play this game. But… 10 rounds on me credit still waiting unused in LA,
just saying…
These are great, keep firing away!
I enjoy your blog as well as the photos you post.
How many blogs are created so their authors can take a tax deduction on their travel expenses?
Duh … Never thought of that and I’m always looking for ‘one more’ deduction . Thx
How much does travel blogger make?
Do you like soccer and if so, do you have a team that you support or a favorite former and current player? Have you been to any sporting events while traveling abroad? Guess that’s more than one question. 🙂
I get emails from Hack.Travel, which I scan to see if he (The Wandering Aramean) has picked up a blog I don’t follow among the 130+ that Hack.Travel does. And for the first time I’ve seen it, Hack.Travel picked up this contest. So I guess you need to say “Welcome Hack.Travel Readers!” I wonder how many folks follow Hack.Travel who will wend their ways here?
Never seen Saverocity on Hack.Travel, though I often get pingbacks when he lists sites that reference me. Hoping to make the big time one day 🙂
Personally I think Mileage Update is a way better site.
Are you actually worried about getting sued by these other blog bozos? Even to the point where everytime you reference a blog you say (the blog, of course!). What the heck?
Who will win the world series?
What’s the easiest way for me to win this contest?
Good stuff here as usual.
How about this… In honor of the current Aegean redemption promo – where, within their route network, would you most like to visit? And for bonus points, same question, but also with a cat 3 or below SPG property with a lounge. 😉
(Yes, I will be eating starpoints next month…)
What is the best day of the week to purchase plane tickets from Seattle to Hawaii?
Do you know of any hidden gem honeymoon destinations?
How does one decide between Bora Bora and the Maldives, should living on the west coast factor in?
How did you get in on the lifetime status with fairmont livingsocial deal? How beneficial has that deal been?
Where do you find the great pictures you include in your blog?
Which travel blogger do you think provides the best content?
The contest is now closed, thank you for all the questions! I need to gather myself and pick the winner, will try to do it very soon!