United’s Awesomeness Expires Sunday Night
This offer has expired. Click HERE for the latest and greatest, most up-to-datest offer!!
United just announced that they will be discontinuing this offer. This is the easiest way to get more than enough miles for a free flight. All you need to do is use the card one time, and you’ll get 25,000 miles. Get another 5,000 miles for adding an authorized user (even if you don’t actually give a card to the person you named in the application). That’s 30,000 miles for buying a pack of gum, or whatever floats your boat. No annual fee, free checked bag for you and a companion on your reservation Sometimes they kill these off even sooner than later, so if you want the deal, and it is great, apply right now!
Reminder: Two Things To Do This Week
Get your $75 from loading up some Amex Prepaid cards. These are NOT credit cards, even though you will use them wherever Amex cards are accepted. So even if you have horrible credit, you can do this. Offer expires Saturday, June 30th. Who couldn’t use $75 free?
One really nice feature is that you can use the Amex Prepaid card at an ATM with no charge, once a month. That means, you could load up the card(s), go to an ATM, pay that ATM’s fee, and withdraw your cash in $20 increments. If you know of an actually free ATM, even better! Get it all at once. Done and done.
If you have a 5% cash back card, the quarterly categories are going to change on Sunday. This quarter, one of the easiest ways to spend up to the $1,500 limit on the Chase Freedom card, is to buy gift cards at a grocery store. That purchase must be posted before July 1st. Check your April – June Chase Freedom statements under “Bonus from 5% categories: Apr – Jun”. Add those numbers, divide by four, subtract that from $1,500, then go buy gift cards for the difference, with your Chase Freedom card.
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Last Day – Big Ben Tolls for Thee
Thursday, June 7th, is the last day to get the British Airways card worth up to 100,000 Avios Points. In plain plane English, half of that many points will get you a round trip from Los Angeles to London. You get those for making just one purchase – of anything anywhere!
To get in the mood to personally congratulate the Queen on 60 years of throne-sitting, might I suggest using your British Airways card to buy some Yorkshire pudding, crumpets or Jammie Dodgers – go nuts! APPLY today before it goes away! ”Read More” for more details.
A Double-Dipper Tipper from The Chipper!
Ahhh… Classic Chinery. Here’s a quick and easy way to get 60,000 American Airlines frequent flyer miles. That’s enough for two free round trip Coach tickets or one First Class ticket!
Citi just rolled out its new CitiBusiness® / AAdvantage® World MasterCard® which will give you 30,000 bonus miles after $1,000 in purchases in the first 3 months of cardmembership. Citi’s personal card, the Citi® Platinum Select® / AAdvantage® Visa Signature® Card has the same offer as well. Annual fees waived the first year on both cards.
Self-employed people can get the biz card and be considered a business. You don’t have to have a Corporation or LLC. If you just said, “A what?” don’t worry about it – you don’t need one.
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Do This Before Cancelling Your Continental Card
My buddy Jack is still holding a Continental Airlines credit card. As you probably know, they merged with United. At some point, United will replace that Continental card with a United card. When that happens, he will no longer be able to get the 30,000 mile sign up bonus for a United card, because he will then be a United card holder!
I say apply for the United card today!! Get 30,000 miles. That’s more than enough for a free round trip ticket. Annual fee waived the first year. It also includes free checked bag for you and a companion.
If you still have the Continental card, this is what I suggest:
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Money Hack – Paper or Plastic?
You can benefit GREATLY, as I have, doing as little as you want. I am happy to help!
Airline: American, American Biz, Delta, Delta Biz, US Airways, AeroMexico, Korean Air, LAN, Luftansa, Virgin America
Hotel & Misc Travel: Hilton, Starwood Personal and Starwood Business
Cash Back: Citi Dividend Platinum Visa, Discover it, Fidelity Amex
The British Are Coming!!
• Do you yearn to drive on the left side of the road without getting a ticket?
• Do you pester your spellchecker with words like humour, colour and recognise?
• Do you pronounce every letter in “Aluminium”?
If so, this is a chance for you to get your Pip-Pip and Cheerio on – for a trip to London!
Apply for the British Airways card and get 50,000 Avios points after making just one purchase. That is enough to fly direct from Los Angeles to London. Unlike other airline branded cards,
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It turns out there is such a thing as a free lunch. If you sync your American Express card with your Twitter account and tweet the special offer #hashtags, American Express will give you automatic statement credits for qualified purchases.
1. Start here: https://sync.americanexpress.com/twitter
2. Hook up your Amex & Twitter
3. You can pick and choose offers, or knock them all out by cutting and pasting these two tweets:
#AmexSeamless5 #AmexZappos #Amex1800flowers #AmexMcDonalds #AmexHM #AmexGulfOil #AmexC21stores #AmexWholefoods AND #AmexVirginAmer #AmexFedEx #AmexCheesecake #AmexFTDflowers #AmexSportsAuth #AmexBestBuy #AmexDell
Offers that jumped out: $20 off $75 at Whole Foods, $5 off $25 at Gulf, $10 off $50 at Cheesecake Factory. The easiest and freebiest is $5 off $5 at McDonalds. It’s Lent. Go enjoy a couple fish fillets.
Need an American Express Card? Howsabout the Gold Delta SkyMiles® Credit Card from American Express card – 30,000 free miles if you spend $500 on the card in the first 90 days.
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Use AmazonPayments.com‘s AmazonWebPay to send money to other AmazonWebPay account holders using a credit card. Send up to $1,000 in a calendar month with no fees. Choose “Goods & Services” and it will not be a cash advance. They even suggest using it for “paying your babysitter”. Heck, I say use it for paying your rent! Here is more AmazonWebPay info.
Why would you want to do this? If you are like me and make a lot of money every year using a no fee cash back credit card, or need to reach a spending requirement to get airline bonus miles or rewards points (click on those links to read how I do it) – this will help you achieve those goals.
Let’s break it down, Bobby Brown. Too soon? If you spend $1,000/month on your credit card using AmazonPayments, that is $12,000/year. That alone would get you:
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Arbitrage !!
Get Free Money: 0% Balance Transfer cards with No Transfer Fee: Chase Slate (15 months)
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No-Hoop Option: EverBank’s 1.05% on the Yield Pledge Checking Account. 6 month rate guarantee
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