Milenomics² Podcast Episode 241: More Rewards & What's Still Working

0:21 Happy BofA More Rewards Day

• Direct Link

• Nov 7, 2024

• +2% or +2x additional rewards up to $2,500 in spend per card

• No registration required

• How to play something like this?

08:33 giftcards.com

• An entity that just won’t go away

• 10% off giftcards.com giftcards (These are duds, can’t buy anything with a purchase fee with them, can’t buy a GC.com GC with a GC.com GC)

• Shopping portal promos

• Gift of College promos

• After Recording: Gift of College cards now down to $100 max for $5.95 (louses!) 

• Are we seeing these promos because their eVGC/eMCs are so hard to liquidate (or even use) and thus their overall volume is down?

19:32 AA Holiday Shopping Bonus (other airline portals as well) 

• 500 bonus miles $200 spend

• 1500 bonus miles for $700 in spend

• 4000 bonus miles for $1600 in spend

• Bonus miles don’t count for LP, but the base spend miles do

• Great way to keep accounts active (more on that later)

• Can you believe: My Dog hasn’t shopped ALL year!?

• UA: 5,000 for $1200

• Southwest: 4,000 for $1000

• Ends 11/17

24:55 Transfer Bonuses

• Amex

• AirFrance 20% 11/10

• Cathay Pacific 10% [Targeted?]

• Marriott Bonvoy 35% 12/31

• Avianca 11/30

• CapitalOne

• British Airways 20% 12/1

• Chase

• Marriott Bonvoy 50% 

• Virgin Atlantic 40%

27:18 [Targeted] Amex 35k Referral + 250k Business Platinum

• Very healthy referral in itself

• $20,000 min spend in 3 months

• Would be great to stack this with 5x 15k employees but don’t see working links at the moment

33:16 Delta Amex

• Seeing heightened offers (like 125k for Personal Reserve) on Delta’s site

• But requires Delta FF# and last name and appears to reject those not target 🙁

• https://apply.americanexpress.com/en-us/delta-bau-pl-q4/page/1/ 

35:01 Main Topic: What is Still Working

35:25 AA book and cancel to extend expiration of miles 

• Still working book any flight >7 days out

• Need to cancel <24 hours after ticketing

• AND need to make sure the miles actually come back. If they don’t–you can DM on twitter. 

37:58 Uber change payment type. Good for when you unexpectedly go over. 

• Can change payment after a ride. 

• https://help.uber.com/riders/article/change-payment-method-for-this-trip?nodeId=54408a07-87f7-4bed-af44-76cd39835e81

• Pair with Costco 20-25% discounted GC. 

41:30 Extending an Alaska Airlines Wallet 

• Also a book and <24 hr cancel

• Wording says it won’t work: 

• But it does! 7 days or so a new wallet came with a 2025 expiration. 

• This wallet has been bouncing around forever. Sad. 

• Robert: Hmm - should I try this with my Hawaiian funds?

45:38 Pay BMW Financial Services w/Debit

• Used to be PayPal Key

• This time used Fluz multi-use cards

• Max $7,500/mo

• Can intentionally overpay up to $7,500 the last month

What's something still working that you haven't heard us talk about lately? Share out in #episode-discussion!