re: Credit Card Rewards and Points Discussion

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Start planning your next travel adventure. It's possible with the 45,000 or more AAdvantage® miles that you can earn by using your AAdvantage® Aviator™ Red MasterCard®!
Earn 45,000+ AAdvantage® miles – here's how it works:

1 Register for this special offer by December 31, 2015.

2 Spend $2,500 or more on purchases using your AAdvantage® Aviator™ Red MasterCard® each month from December 2015 through May 2016 and you'll earn 30,000 bonus miles. Plus, you'll earn 2X miles for every dollar spent on eligible American Airlines® purchases and 1X miles for every dollar spent on purchases everywhere else which adds up to at least 15,000 AAdvantage® miles.²

3 Plan your next getaway – once you've earned your 30,000 bonus miles, they will be awarded in July 2016 and you will be able to redeem them for exciting adventures just a few days after that. AAdvantage® miles earned from your monthly purchases will be awarded monthly as they are earned.

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I got that Barclay offer too. I've been putting around 3k on CSP per month, so I could do it. Think the 45k is worth the lost UR points to switch spending to my AA card for 6 months? I'm not sure

I'm about to get slammed with annual fees. My CC problem is starting to not be "free".

All coming in the next 3 months.
3 Barclay Aviator Reds = $267
2 Chase Hyatt = $150
2 Chase IHG = $98
1 Amex SPG = $99(not paying)
1 Amex gold Biz = $195(not paying either w/o nice retention).

Ya, you got a little murderer's row there.

Since Jan. 2013 when I started, I've only paid 3 annual fees

1 x Starwood @$65 (Not sure what I'll do)
1 X Barclay Arrival+ @$89 (will not pay second time, replaced with Citi Double Cash for Serve/Buxx)
1 x Ink Bold @$95 (Will keep, Avoided United, CSP, Ink Plus fees)

OH nice, I'll try the game.

I haven't won shite on the last few

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I just did the same thing.

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I just got confirmation on status match to Diamond. I was matching my IHG Platinum Ambassador status.

4 Suite upgrades. Nice.

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Same here. Plus I got 5k points for adding authorized user. Which went right to my Green Bay Hyatt room for 5k points which was running $400/night.

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So you get 2 free nights in a Cat 4 for sign up, right? Easy to use, no blackout dates?

I may look into the Hyatt as well since you get something for the fee. I really like Starwood but depending on what happens that could be done. Although, the Hyatt doesn't have the airlines like SPG. But again, who knows what becomes of the SPG Amex and how the points transfer after next year.

5k points is enough for a room with Hyatt?

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Has your fee hit the card yet ?

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Yeah, just saw the $95 last week. Why?

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All coming in the next 3 months.
3 Barclay Aviator Reds = $267
2 Chase Hyatt = $150
2 Chase IHG = $98
1 Amex SPG = $99(not paying)
1 Amex gold Biz = $195(not paying either w/o nice retention).

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What the? You have 3 Aviators?

I have the Aviator fee coming next month but I think I may keep that one (higher limit, no foreign fee) and the Citi AA comes in March which I will probably drop unless they give me something worth keeping it for. I will try to get Aviator to cough up some pernts too.

IHG is a keeper since you get a night for $49.

Hyatt is one to look into although I recently have gotten the IHG and Southwest to go along with the United so not sure if I'll have issues for another Chase card?

SPG gets canceled unless they give me at least 7,000 SPG or waive the fee.

And I will definitely cancel the United next Aug as they only gave me $60 to keep it this go around so I'm not expecting that or better again.

Alaska is on the way in the mail and I may keep that one. If I do I would drop the Aviator next go around. I'm unhappy with AA award changes. You can get a new one of those every 3 months, Afro? So you just cancel one every 3 months or you keep them for like 8 months and then cancel? Same for the biz? So do you have like 3 Alaska cards at a time sometimes?

Besides Hyatt, what other card(s) should I consider right now? Thinking of maybe picking up the SPG and Alaska biz. I'm not going to get CSP.

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Not in mine

I would do that though, I think I can swing $2,500/month for the next 6 months. I'll see if I get that offer.

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Id inquire about it. Got in both of my emails.

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nd yes, we know about your 10,000 you get annually too

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sorry. As I typed I thought to myself I feel like I've said that too often.

Someone hacked into my credit card rewards (Quicksilver) and cashed them all in. I don't know how this happened considering even I did not know my username/password. I feel pretty confident they hacked their system and it wasn't an issue of just figuring out my password and username. Both are incredibly random. This is the 2nd time I have had my card number or rewards stolen in the last few months with this credit card. If it happens again I am going to assume Quicksilver has horrible security because in all my life I have never had issues with other credit cards.