re: Credit Card Rewards and Points Discussion

The answers are always Changing. I know the fkyertalk specific cards usually give good data points.

I the the CSR retention reps are allowed to offer certain retention plans based on the card and the value of the business you give them by spend. I've spent tens of thousands of legitimate dollars and got nothing, and others where I spent crap, and got my AF waiver or enough? points for meeting new spending requirements?, that it's a new brainer.

It's timing and your value at any given time. Never hurts to ask. I call and ask on almost every card with an AF. I had about a 75% success rate with receiving a good offer 2 years ago. Feels like it's dropped to less than 50% lately.

If you dont get a retention offer amd want to cancel, go for it. If you want to keep the card and don't get an offer, just say you'll call back but leave card open.

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There is no way Chase is giving retention offers on the CSR, right?

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That's tough. With their recent report about the card being unprofitable, might not be much of one if any at all.

I'm trying to find a flight in the spring from New Orleans or Pensacola to Turks and Caicos or another small island in the Carribean. I have 75k UR to spend and could go through the portal but was wondering if you all had any other ideas. I can find some overpriced availability through American, but not through BA. I was hoping to take advantage of their mileage rules. Any advice?

My car insurance (Geico) goes through my Freedom Unlimited. My cable/internet goes through my Ink.

Without doing some legwork, I find that there aren't many recurring bills that let you pay with a card.

Check redemptions on Flying Blue (Air France/KLM/etc.. partners with Delta). You can transfer UR to Flying Blue and I believe Flying Blue still prices in the caribbean as a domestic roundtrip redemption from the US. So looking at like 30K miles to transfer plus taxes/fees.

I read a lot of nightmares about redeeming on Flying Blue. They don't know what they are doing it seems like and you can risk being caught in a vortex of stupidity.

Just realized that the AMEX Blue Cash Preferred card AF went from $75 to $95 when digging through old records for something

I thought it was only new applicants that had the increase not existing.

Ive been jumping straight from Flying Blue to Air France to book. Found it fairly straightforward when I actually wanted to book a flight. Found the flight, held it, transferred points from UR, booked and paid in about 10 minutes...but I have found a normal search through FB can be very log in intensive.

How did you hold the flight, online or on the phone?

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Ive been jumping straight from Flying Blue to Air France to book. Found it fairly straightforward when I actually wanted to book a flight. Found the flight, held it, transferred points from UR, booked and paid in about 10 minutes...but I have found a normal search through FB can be very log in intensive

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I think that's when the problems start from what I've read.

Hopefully it works out.