I'll say it. It's because he's the man. It happens to me more often than I want to think about & it drives me crazy.
Ditto from me. It happens to me all the time. I'm usually pretty laissez-faire about old school things like this, but this one really grates on me. I recently had a very pointed discussion with Marriott Grand Residences In London over the purchase of our new timeshare. I am an attorney and this purchase was done completely by me--DH hadn't even seen the property. He literally had nothing to do with it; all he did was sign on the dotted line (the money even came out of a separate property account). When the purchase was completed, guess who's name was listed as "the member" with MY email! I was furious, and the person who I spoke to (in very upper-crust English) admitted it was a completely antiquated system and apologized profusely. I asked that he take the matter up the chain in the hopes that "the system" would change. This happens to me time and time again, and I've started calling people on it. Throwing in words like misogynistic and discriminatory helps get attention
On less irritating subjects, LOL, I have some churning updates.
Due to the new London timeshare and DD19 in her second year at an English "Uni" we have been going back and forth to the UK a ton. I think this year I have 6 RTs! Booking all those flights in business class has been tough, but I've managed. Of course, my last trip was in first and now I'm as bad as plane princess! I just made our March reservations to London and managed to score British Air First from LAX to LHR for about 65,000 URs and $825 each. OMG so excited! Thank you Chase 30% bonus.
CHASE:
We actually have so many UK flights next year that I"m going to go ahead and transfer all our URs by the end of the Chase promotion this weekend. Usually I wouldn't transfer miles without a specific trip planned but I know we'll be using the avios and I'd be pissed if I didn't take advantage of the bonus. Most people don't like British Air for award tickets, but like
@calypso, I don't mind paying some cash and miles for first or business. I think of it like buying a one-way First Class ticket for $800 and upgrading with miles (or vice-versa). With United going to dynamic pricing for award tickets (and their crappy availability from SFO to LHR without a stop), they've become largely irrelevant. I'd put them last in terms of product, too (and I've tried 7 or 8 business/first classes to LHR). The other reason I love BA is that you can pool household avios so I don't have to worry about who's account has what. Love it. The other big thing is that by buying award tickets, I have cheap insurance on the need to change my trip. I can cancel/change for a small fee and have my miles redeposited. With cash fares you are screwed if you need to change things around. Award tickets give me flexibility, which comes in handy when I'm booking almost a year out.
AMEX:
My 6 figure MR balance from the payment of my taxes on my platinum (1.5X) credited this week, so it took about 2 months. I'm thrilled though because that means I can have miles in place for our summer 2020 trip to England for DDs graduation with the Virgin transfer 30% bonus. I have to be a little more careful with these to preserve flexibility, but I'll do at least some. VS has a great business product, but how they release is a little more opaque to me. I love that you can put award tickets on hold though.
When Amex platinum announced the Dell credit, I wasn't too excited, but I've ended up loving it. We downsized and I was in the market for lighting--they sell Philips Hue lights and with various Amex promos (and a shopping portal!) I was able to get $196 worth of lighting for $77, almost 400 MRs, and almost 800 avios! We also will be in the market for a new laptop for DH this summer so that second $100 credit will be much appreciated.
FAILS:
I bought furniture at pottery barn and forgot to go throng a portal! UGH. 6000 lost Avios. I also never seem to remember to use my Amex Bus Plat dining credit. I've only used it once in the past four months
PLANS:
We are finally going to jump on the multiple CIP bandwagon once we clear out some of our UR balances with the transfer bonuses. I did the multiple business cards with my CI+ years ago (only keep one of them... bummer), but it makes me nervous for some reason. I think I've had 5 or 6 chase business cards over the years and I only have two now. DH has 3. I worry they'll look at history and flags will go up.