We bring you a timeshares Intro, learn about Avianca Lifemiles awards, visit Pyongyang, learn about airplane etiquette offenders, teach you about drowning, visit the awesome surfing spot that is Nazare in Portugal, we talk about blogs which is much better about moronic click baity airplane passenger incidents and more!
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An introduction to Timeshare Offers. This is a good intro to this topic. I used to do these frequently. I had a system. After about ten minutes of pretending we were interested, I would talk to the sales person and be upfront that we were there for the miles or points and we are not going to buy and we don’t really want to waste his/her time. Never had a problem, they were appreciative, we got what we were there for and everyone was happy. But one Hilton presentation offer in Orlando a few years ago was a very traumatic experience: As in took way longer than promised and we did not get what we wanted. Mrs. TBB said No Mas! So, we are done. Good luck to all.
Many of you may have gotten the Avianca LifeMiles credit card so this post is for you then: How to Search & Book an Avianca LifeMiles Award Ticket.
When I was a kid, I almost drowned once. And it looked like the short video in this link I am sure: Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning. Take a moment to watch it, it may save a life!
This is awesome: How the 5 Tech Giants Make Their Billions. All in charts!
This is sad…Half-naked driver crashes car to get beer.
Grande: An epic video about the waves in famous surf spot Nazare, Portugal.
Your personal finance fix of the day: A Dozen Lessons on Finance and Business from Ambrose Bierce. Must read imho. It combines personal finance and humor, two of my favorite things!
- “PLAN, v.t. To bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result.”
A girl has brought her fiancé home for dinner. After dinner, the fiancé and the girl’s father go into the study for a man to man talk. “So, what are you doing right now?” asks the father. “I am a theology scholar,” replies the fiancé. “Do you have any plans of employment?” “I will study and God will provide.” “What about the children?” asks the man. “God will provide.” “And your house and car?” “Again, God will provide,” says the fiancé. After the talk, the girl’s mother asks the father, “So what did you two talk about?” The man replies, “He has no plans of employment, but on the other hand, he thinks I’m God.”
Freddo’s North Korea guest trip report at Loyalty Lobby continues: “A Weekend in North Korea – Pyongyang II“.
How to deal with airplane etiquette offenders
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This section is for advanced level hobbyists and veteran blog readers & personal rants & stuff
I usually have so much material to post on Monday. But this was the slowest weekend in the miles and points blogosphere that I can remember in a long time. Or maybe Mother’s Day celebrations contributed to it. But lately, talk about an industry with so many blogs writing the same things. Over and over.
I bring you the weekend edition of clickbait and of course pushing product for the banks as usual #yawn
To the blogger who just did a guest post on RenesPoints...don’t you ever ever contact me! But I still won’t block you though.
Hope you did not click on the Frugal Travel Guy post about the best travel rewards credit card. Of course it is the Chase Sapphire Preferred card. It just happens to have a really high sales commission. Coincidence? Nope!
I hope one day I get to see, in yet another post that goes “My top XX reasons I love the _____ credit card”, as one of the reasons: The Sales Commission It Earns Me! Yeah, I doubt it as it will not help increase sales/conversions.
Can these two finally move on their separate ways? Must be a bitch still having to push credit cards like this!
And I leave you with this. This is a repeat…but it’s so good it is okay by TBB Management! It’s me when TPG finally buys me out, woohoo!
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First………………………among the losers.
Claiming bronze #costcontainment
Everyone who comments here is a winner.
Except Ingy.
This is an actual headline at RenesPoints:
>>>>>>>>>Are the airlines are primarily at fault for the ESA Emotional Support Animal problem? I think so!
WTF!
Interesting Loyalty Lobby piece:
http://loyaltylobby.com/2017/05/15/compensation-clinic-disaster-how-to-get-your-accounts-closed-case-hilton-honors/
where, basically, the reader was ripping off Hilton and – when caught – went to LL proclaiming innocence and asking for help in solving the problem.
I have had similar issues with readers on numerous occasions. Don’t think that ‘lack of honesty’ is a one way street in the blogger / reader field.
I read that and had the same reaction as you
Must have been a Clinton voter
Pricey,
“The Hilton affiliated property get charged $200 fee for every file that the Guest Assistance opens for service issues affecting Diamond member.”
+1 on the Slate drowning article, please read if you haven’t. A few years ago one of my kids was behaving in the hotel pool exactly like what the article says drowning people behave like. I had just read that article and realized exactly what was going on, so no harm done.
+ 179 I agree 🙂
The author is actually on the board of the family foundation my ex-wife works for. The family lost their two year old in a drowning in 2008. They wrote the book, and use it as a tool to teach water safety and drowning prevention.
https://joshtheotter.org/
Hilton gets charged $200 for a Diamond complaint? So I paid $24, plus 12000 points to them and they had to pay Hilton $200 and give me 10,000 points because their shower had no hot water and I expressed this in the survey they sent me.
Seems like a bum deal for them. Although that shower was pretty miserable at 430AM!
the airlines are to blame for the ESA problem? Good lord. Let me guess, his theory is probably that if they didn’t charge such high fees people wouldn’t resort to faking ESAs? That’s the usual complaint anyway.
Love the airline etiquette graphic!
Look for that graphic at a blog near you with no HT (or HT to Alan H.) 🙂
🙂 Ah, where would GTL be without Alan H.?!
Determining if an image is a Chihuahua or muffin is a tough problem in artificial intelligence
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C_01OxMWAAAPmRU.jpg
Everytime I read HUSTLER MONEY BLOG, I feel like I am being hustled (same with Deals WE LIKE)
Me too!