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ON MY MIND
Warning: I expect light blogging activity until Monday. Not bluffing this time!
Watching all the Southwest affiliate credit card offers pop up again and again in my browser left me with a very sour taste all day long! And if I ever see again how amazing the Companion Pass is I swear I will…never mind!
TBB has not fallen down to kneel before the banks, you can take that to the bank (pun intended)! No idea what the future holds but you can rest assured you won’t be reading the same stuff you read in so many blogs! And you all know what I am talking about! And I won’t be making blog posts about how I got my 7% annual Chase Sapphire Preferred card dividend or that it is time now to sign up for the Chase Freedom card bonus categories or how you can all get 5 points at office supply stores (and while at it, here are all the links of every other affiliate credit card on the planet). Yikes!!
When stories like this hit the mainstream media you just know it in your heart that it is not good for our hobby. Mr. Pickles is thinking about retiring now, hehe.
Welcome First2Board launching today! Giveaways we hear. You will not be assaulted with Chase Southwest and Ink affiliate links there…so you can just relax and check out the 11 bloggers on board.
Apparently Boarding Area was going to move to new servers (oh how I missed on Twitter “BA is down again”) this very weekend and now the move is postponed one week. Interesting…
MILES/POINTS
Just in case you missed it, you can get 1,000 Club Carlson points if you like them on Facebook.
Loyalty Lobby has all the details on the Hilton devaluation for all the properties in two documents.
PointChaser has the final installment of best Club Carlson redemptions: Category 6.
TRAVEL
35 amazingly unique mountain and rock formations. Blog of Fracesco Mugnai. HOLYMOTHEROFGOD…this is AWESOME!
World’s Most Insane Rope Swing: Jumping 300 Feet into a Canyon video. From Vagabondish. This is crazy, totally nuts!
Rapid Travel Chai goes to Iran! Certainly nowhere near as exciting as his trip to North Korea…but this Part Numero Quatro was the best in my opinion.
10 of the world’s most unusual restaurants. From A Luxury Travel Blog.
How to Spend 47 Hours on a Train and Not Go Crazy. NY Times Travel. Really long read about…train travel!
Photographer Follows His Girlfriend Around the World. From Bored Panda. Wow, I am referring to all the sites…sure.
ODDZ & ENDZ
Sweet Brown “Ain’t Nobody Got Time For That” lady is back and now stars in an ad for WePay. Good for her!
First2Board is live. Admire the ‘no card pimping stance’. Not sure I agree with Stacy that Frugal Travel Guy is the best place to look for that instead!
Yes I admire it. I agree with your point on the link reference! Out of all sites…
Rick must have signed an agreement to give them kickbacks. Think about it — how is F2B going to generate any revenue? So they send everyone to Rick, who funnels some money back to F2B. Convenient eh? They take the no-CC high road, he gets more readers, they all win.
The other plausible explanation is that F2B has a little feud with Randy. And of course Rick has a little feud with Randy, so this way they all get to thumb their noses at him. So they send everyone to Rick, because he’s sort of the biggest blogger not connected to BoardingArea. (I said biggest, not tallest, so that rules out TPG.) Too funny.
Of course, I have no idea about any of that. I just call it like I see it. But I do love a good conspiracy theory!
I hope not. But it sure is a good conspiracy theory.
Did you know 911 did not happen? Some believe it:-)
Watching low budget commercials for start ups? Ain’t nobody got time for dat!
I am waiting to see Lucky post it…
Did you do away with the “Worst of” section completely?
Yes for now. So many worthy choices I would have to stop doing so much of what I am doing. For what? For lawsuit threats? I just don’t have the time when it comes down to it, too busy
Can anyone explain to me the obsession with talking to the mainstream media?
Let’s expose stuff to millions of people and see how long it will last…
Short term fame… plus the ability to slap “as seen on XXX” all over their blog/site/media kit/bedroom wall…
It’s a sad slow slog to oblivion…
As I read the 300ft canyon swing, I thought it was going to be the Nevis canyon swing… yawn… and then I clicked on the link. Daaaamn! Where do I sign up? 🙂
I am a little nuts but there is no way I am doing THAT!
What a snooze-fest… and you’re promising that Monday will be light? Careful. You’re losing steam.
Really? I can point you to a gazillion blogs right now that are big time snooze fests! They all revolve around content like: Southwest cards are the best, Companion Pass is the best thing since sliced bread, I just got 7% dividend in Sapphire Preferred did u get yours?, the Ink cards give 5 pts at office supply stores woohoo, the BA card is going away tomorrow & if u don’t get yours u are a freaking idiot, u can apply for the quarterly Freedom bonuses here & while at it here are a gazillion cards to be helpful to you, the US Air card is awesome here is my affiliate link it is the exact same one like so many other bloggers, here is my churning challenge let me just pull up some numbers out of thin air & copy/paste some affiliate links for you depending on what’s for sale lately, here is a giveaway for a luggage tag or drink coupon, I started collecting miles/points in 2011 & starting this blog to help my friends/family to travel free LOL, I had no idea what Platinum or Diamond is but now that I got my elite cards I feel entitled to publish a bunch of crap & flood my readers with affiliate links every chance I get, and I can go on forever. The vast majority of blogs in existence would not exist if it was not for blatant pimping of credit cards and you know it.
Deep down, for you to post here it means you are reading me. Thank you for your support;-)
Admire the “No CC affiliate link stance” but there is one blog on F2B that is basically just an Amazon referral link whore. It sticks out like a sore thumb.
I am ok with Amazon referral links. I am not ok with plastered all over credit card links. Debt can bury unsuspecting newbies before they realize what hit them. THAT, to me at least, is THE difference.
Credit cards are to consumers what derivatives were to banks (we bailed them out remember?)
Great, my 3yo now wants to fly AirAsia because it looks like a Fire Truck!
Comment of the month, LOL. Thank you!