re: Credit Card Rewards and Points Discussion

So AK can probably give the perfect breakdown but I'll give direction.

Given your business tracking needs, it makes sense to exclusively use your Chase FreeU card for business purchases.


Easy "Which Card to Use" guide

-Sams Club/Business Expenses: Freedom Unlimited
-Restaurants/Travel: JPM Reserve/Chase Sapphire Reserve
-Daily Spend: Probably JPMR / CSR


If you spend $5+mil on the Freedom U and book travel through CSR portal, you will have >$100k in travel per year

thanks for the heads up, yea was going to mention the credit limit they gave me which was $5000 isnt sufficient at all, not sure how the credit limits work but my sapphire reserve has $39k limit and the JPM one is $79k. So I have no clue how these limits are set or whatever but the sams card has a low limit as well $30k or so but I usually just pay it off in store with a check every few days. I dont really think there are any cards out there,maybe amex, that will give you enough credit to go a whole month without paying haha.

No

You probably can call in and have them Move CL from the -CSR etc to the Free U


Just tell them you have a big purchase you'd rather use the Free U for and chase already provided that anoint for you

Simple - transfer 110K UR to UA. Econ there is 40K, Biz back is 70K. You can build in a stopover in NZ since your Air NZ flight will stop in Auckland.

Another option is to transfer 20K SPG points to 25K AA and use 72.5K AA to fly Qantas DFW-SYD direct. The biz is in the upper section of the plane which is pretty cool.

So you need to pick between having the ability to have a stopover with UA miles, or flying a better J product and fly the return leg with OW. Me, personally, would go with the stopover but I don't really care about J/F that much.

One last (and probably my favorite) option would be to get the best of both worlds. Use 40K AS miles (transferred from SPG) to fly Fiji Airways to Australia via Nadi. AS allows stopovers on one ways so you can stopover in Fiji for as long as you want and continue on to Australia. Then fly Qantas back using AA miles.


Search Engines:
1) UA,Air NZ on united.com
2) Qantas,AA,Fiji on Alasakaair.com

PSA for Ink cardholders:
Office Depot has $15 credit on visa gift cards for $300 buy.
$30 for purchase of 3 $200 cards. Good to 10/15

Easy. Did $1200 at College store earlier. Gonna hit another one on the way home. What's the easist way to liquidate?

WM will split transaction over several cards without much grief?

Thanks man, not having any luck with one ways from dfw to Sydney/Melbourne or vice versa in business using points (outside of standard awards that are double the points of a saver award).

First try using multiple vcg at walmat didn't work. Kept getting declined. I told the cashier to separate into 2 cards with $200 each with .70 cash. Is it cashier error or did o screw up asking the wrong way?