Please all rise and have a moment of silence for the end of the Mega 5x OD/Inkcc deal, RIP.
First, a huge thanks to all my readers! Your kind and encouraging words are really appreciated and it really means a lot to me! I am hoping so far this blog has enhanced your life and is contributing to world peace and understanding (it does in a way, think about it!). Get used to my quirky sense of humor:-)
I would like to reiterate that this operation remains in beta! I started this baby off in the slowest weekend of the year for me. I will do my best to keep up and not fall off the wagon! It would be really interesting what happens when I am traveling…
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No guarantees it will make it to the blog. But if you don’t send it, it won’t make it for sure!
So here we go, fasten your seat belts!
Went out to a bar for some interesting conversation about our hobby last night with Frequent Miler and two other FlyerTalkers. Frequent Miler revealed to us the next card to rule them all at 8x per dollar. He will not reveal it in his blog, only a few people know it. We swore to secrecy about it so please do not bother us. Yes I am kidding, come down, what is the matter with you people?
It appears the end of the Vanilla Reloads and 5x per dollaris here. Wow, that one went fast, thanks bloggers!! Some of the comments are hilarious. One equated this event to the infamous fiscal cliff moment, loved it! One guy bought 20 cards at once, yikes!
The news prompted me to go on a mini rant and post for the second time in one day, a truly momentous moment in the long history of this blog (3 days!). You can read it here:
Come on, you all admit it now. You never liked Vanilla flavor in the first place! Let’s hear if for…Chocolate!
Hitler finds out about Vanilla Reloads, a brilliantly funny video! A few people on Twitter found the video offensive and for that I apologize! These types of videos have been on youtube for so long, it’s all about comedy folks! You do not like SNL either? ( I LOVE SNL!). If you despise Hitler (who doesn’t!) I suggest you skip this link please!
More people pissed off about bloggers! Yeah, they are coming out and that is a GOOD development! Great post PointstopointsB! Rant with me! And your video is brilliant; you should apply for a job at @Pointsenvy, lol.
Well, as expected, Mr. Fancypants follows up a brilliant post with pushing AirTran credit card links. Not affiliate links, so rant is halted until…next time!
I never signed up for the Bank of America Worldpoints program so it appears that program has gone from worse to absolute pits with best award option hiring an Elvis impersonator for only 17k points. You can might as well bend over now!
Ben tells us Austrian will fly to Chicago in 2013. Looks like a fantastic product and I think UA miles will work perfect for us in the Midwest! I flew Austrian Airlines once many years ago. I ran into them again in the Star Mega DO II when they had a small booth in the Lufthansa headquarters. Both times I was impressed by the extreme politeness of the flight attendants…cough. No, flight attendants were super attractive! One day I will have to compare with Janesis FA level quality:-) Oh that will be the day!
Question for readers: May I assume that Austrian flights appear online in UA website like most others?
I do not understand the fascination of DansDeals with watches and Reader’s Digest subscriptions!
Blogger affiliate links from Chase for the Ink cards will be changing on Tuesday November 13. You bet your Award Wallet balances that they have the blog posts ready NOW to go, it will be a mega clickonmylink orgy!
Good advice by thePointsGuy for people living abroad. Can anyone in your staff edit this and take out the OD/VanillaReload/5x references while you continue your mega fiesta time in Madrid? It is so old news already! Best advice by me: Move back to the US. If you are already here, do not move abroad. All you need to know!
MMS writes again about the demise of BB. Totally oblivious…Shaking my head!
Tweet by @PointstoPointsB: I like the new @Delta website, but if the award search calendar is still broken, it’s just putting lipstick on a pig.
Some noteworthy comments on FT about, what else, Vanilla:
——-Comment by Notafatslob on FT [my editorial in brackets] : “I hope everyone that either recently got an Ink card or has applied or even if you have had one for some time but Now You have Been Cheated Out of the best opportunity out there by mainly the bloggers [ you don’t say!]. I can think of one in particular who posted his picture in OD stores and even posted his wife picture in OD stores to do the most damage to blow up this prime earning situation [who is he talking about?]. Not hard to put a face or faces with your hate of the bloggers and who cheated you out of that potential vacation or earnings [was waiting for the class action lawsuit to pop up]. The question if when is someone going to do something about it? [how about some ideas?]
I hope this kills their referral income [it won’t] and everyone has the sense to see they are pure evil and deserve it. [ no comment]
I hope this kills their referral income [it won’t] and everyone has the sense to see they are pure evil and deserve it. [ no comment]
——-Comment by UNHBuzzard on FT While I agree with the “teach a man to fish” thought process, I do feel some went overboard by providing them with titanium fishing rods with ecstasy laced worms a la circles & arrows. [mega lol]
——–And the one and only Marathon Man: “I still dont like how certain folk made the gig so easy to see with pics and steps, but until deals are played only in small trusted groups that can still share among tens or even hundreds of others without getting plastered on the front page for ego or show off im cool reasons, this will just keep happening, blogs or not [yep!]
The vitriol pointed towards MMS is spewing at his blog post [totally unrelated by the way to Vanilla!] even shocked me…and, if you know me, I am pretty much nonshockable! Just a few milder comments here:
———– By
———–BySickofYou [lol]: Good job douchebag. You and your ilk led the unwashed massed to Office Depot and ruined what could have been a long term opportunity for all of us. [we are being a little selfish here, you make me sick you bysickofyou lol]
———-By Tom: Instead of complaining, send a letter to the Chase Executive Office and Fraud Department, explaining how he encourages people to churn their cards and profits from it. [you serious???????] This should kill his affiliate account and possibly put him on the blacklist for all his churning. [Mega lol…Hey Tom, you read a Chase Financial Report lately? All bloggers probably have CEO Jamie Dimon’s cell phone number by now, Chase LOVES them!!!!]
Other comments found elsewhere:
——By Deidre: “Delta has your passport number, birth date and credit card information and they want you to link it with your Facebook profile? Given Delta’s technical ineptness and Facebook’s privacy issues, this is a disaster waiting to happen.” [ oh so so true]
Follow me on twitter @FlyerTalkerinA2 Also you can follow @TheMrPickles & get used to his cryptic tweets!
Now it is time to get some real work done! It will be a busy week and I am never getting up at 5 am like Gary to work on my blog!
Saw you mentioning this blog on FlyerTalk and decided to take a peek!
Glad I did. You have an amazing sense of humor.
Saved.
Subscribed.
Bookmarked.
-Jay
Thank you Jay, much appreciated!
Another epic post! You’re on a roll~
From you’re #1(or maybe 101) fan!
k2o
You will always be #1:-)
vanilla reloads were destined to die with or without bloggers
well, maybe you meant to write “vanilla reloads at 5x were destined to die with or without bloggers”? Still going at 1x or (6x w/ Hilton AMEX) at your local drug store if u are lucky;-)
I find those bloggers most annoying who post so many pics of a wife or child, and especially those whose command of the English language doesn’t extend far enough to know that “towards” is not a good replacement for “toward”. grrrr.
I would feel really uncomfortable of posting pics of my wife or kids here! Then again, I am thinking of posting a link to my family blog when my batteries run out (or traveling), you know, similar to a cc filler post:-)
I was looking for affiliate links for credit cards but couldn’t find them. I think your blog is broken 😛
Still broken. Can’t find affiliate links
They are taunting me everywhere!!!
Most bloggers, except Frequent Miler, are NOT generating new ideas/scheme to generate points. Most bloggers are “stealing” FM ideas and trying to get “hits” on their CC links from the naive readers thinking it is an original post. Remember, FTG had the below blog? This is the craziest I have seen. And you think why the deals are getting killed! He already made his money from the CC hits (~$300×200 = $60K) and doesn’t care if the deals get killed on the way. Way to go FTG:
“With four Ink cards between us we can buy a little over $4,000 in Vanilla Reloads per card, per month. The cost to us is our time and $3.95 per $500 reload card. Let’s keep the number round and assume $16,000 of reload card purchases per month generating 80,000 Ultimate Rewards points per month or 960,000 Ultimate Rewards points per year. by FTG.”
Thanks Anonymous (just pick any name next time): I agree with you! FTG is not done making money, CC hits keep on coming. Many committed readers (he earned since he’s been doing it for so long) and an endless stram of noobs from Chicago, etc.
I wonder how many will keep their sites up if Chase and Amex go out of business. There is not much money in all the others combined (I think) divvied up with among so many bloggers.
Love the blog George but then I like tongue-in-cheek humor in just about any form. Head over to http://www.travelforboomers today as we mention your blog in our “Make my Monday” feature.
Edit to say: http://www.travelforboomers.com
Got it, thank you so much. I will get a mention for you and your book soon, I have promised.