I love credit cards so much! v2.0 (see first page for add'l details)

[Chancery8]

I had to google 'catfished'.

I wish I didn't know what it meant! It's definitely not fun. Luckily my ex was stupid and incompetent, so I figured out fairly quickly what he was up to.

 

[disneymagicgirl]

There was an offer on DH’s Amex plat this morning for $100 back on a $500 or more Universal Orlando pkg.

DH had it too!

 

[amalone1013]

DH had it too!

Ah I can't find it on ours

 

[disneymagicgirl]

Pei just got neutered. unsure if it’s 100% sure or not.

womp womp.

Not surprised.

Can you elaborate?

 

[afan]

I've sadly redeemed all mine form the ChasePay promo a few months back. I wonder where iced coffee falls?

• 50 stars – will get you any size cup of coffee, tea or bakery item
• 150 stars – will get you any handcrafted beverage or breakfast sandwich

If it goes to 150, it will take me forever to get free drinks.

Like @DisneyMandC said they won't be 50. I think any time the espresso machinemachine is used, milk is steamed or they have to actually do something it becomes hand crafted. What I would do is ask for whatever size in the drip and for for a cup of ice and just dump it over the ice yourself. It's not weird for someone to get water or ice there so why not. I've done it at the bar when shots were on special but I wanted my whisky on ice. No shame considering the bar we were at.

So this is traveling on topic sort of? A couple weeks ago I ordered a bunch of travel makeup brush sets from Ulta because I was hoping to find some that aren't as long as regular brushes, and make a little travel makeup bag set so I'm not moving stuff back and forth all the time. So yesterday I went to return them and realized I didn't have my card I used on me, so I asked if I could just get it on a gift card. I planned to pick up a few things while there. Instead they gave me cash The bad part was, I figured I'd be able to get my eyeshadow, etc there for the travel set, a couple little cosmetic mirrors, maybe a teeny makeup bag... Nope, didn't have any of what I wanted at all. Silly me, thinking that if they had the brand online they would have it in store And the whole time I just felt super judged because god forbid you go into the beauty store with no makeup on. Guess I'll just head back to Target.

I used to love ulta but they turned too much into sephora with their employees and their prices aren't as good as they used to be. I can do better on amazon.

 

[MKTokyo]

We did the all 4 parks in one day, can't imagine actually trying to ride every ride while doing it. Yikes. Do it while you are young! lol I was so exhausted after doing it, we did a lot, but we also did some snoozers to help out. We ate at Crystal Palace so that took some time and at Epcot we may have taken a little nap in the American Adventure show. It decided to rain in the middle of the day and that ruined our Mine train fast passes, so things definitely have to go like clockwork for it to work, no rain and no rides down and definitely no getting stuck on rides. lol Good luck if you try!

Plus we'd have to go bagless & do Kali without extra clothes, which would be annoying. I haaate walking around in wet clothes.

But I guess I can deal. Once.

We are thinking we can do breakfast at BOG to knock out 7DMT first & try to make FPs in HS or AK for the "new" headliners...

The only time we did all parks in one day was back when they had Express Transportation, which was the best thing ever.

 

[disneymagicgirl]

Ah I can't find it on ours

I just priced out 2 nights and it is a bit over $2k for me and the 2 boys. ummm, crazy town. No thanks!

 

[AmyAnne]

AmEx experts, can you educate me about product changing? I have two personal Plats (long story) and am planning to PC one to a personal Gold once the annual fee posts, which should be in early April. First, I'm pretty sure that I can do this, but someone correct me if I am wrong. Second, assuming I can do it at all, can I do it through chat? Or would I have to call? Usually I don't mind calling people but I really don't want to have to engage in a conversation about my pile of AmEx cards.

 

[MKTokyo]

Like @DisneyMandC said they won't be 50. I think any time the espresso machinemachine is used, milk is steamed or they have to actually do something it becomes hand crafted. What I would do is ask for whatever size in the drip and for for a cup of ice and just dump it over the ice yourself. It's not weird for someone to get water or ice there so why not. I've done it at the bar when shots were on special but I wanted my whisky on ice. No shame considering the bar we were at.



I used to love ulta but they turned too much into sephora with their employees and their prices aren't as good as they used to be. I can do better on amazon.

Ulta employees are nasty. My friend uses the James Charles palette & an employee asked him if he was sure he had a real one because "you're looking a little blotchy" & "the fake ones have all kinds of bad ingredients but we know you guys get desperate so we're always concerned."

We weren't sure who or what exactly "you guys" referred to but I'd be willing to bet it wasn't a regional dialect.

My friend was like... well, I bought it from your website... so are you admitting you sell fakes or are you just rude...

 

[disneymagicgirl]

Well dh’s flight out of Orlando is delayed. He’s now landing in Atlanta at 8:30 and his next flight boards at 8:31..... He’s had a pretty stressful time with flights in the last two days.

I wish my flight out of MCO were delayed yesterday, or cancelled, even better. Unfortunately I am sitting here at home now, back in the 30 degree weather. Boo.
I'm sure in your DH's case, since it wasn't vacation, he was extremely annoyed though. Hope he gets the compensation part of it worked out.

 

[amalone1013]

Oooh, my passport came yesterday. Time to plan trip to Vegas for GE interview?

I just priced out 2 nights and it is a bit over $2k for me and the 2 boys. ummm, crazy town. No thanks!

It is crazy town. I'm playing with it now to see if I could have worked the system to make it better than URs somehow... even just one hotel night, RPR with 2day P2P tickets for 2 adults is $1074, even if you split and were able to use 2 AMEX offers it'd be $874 so more URs to cover it than booking RPR + Tickets through UR portal (~71k). Bummer. Of course that's a Friday night in the summer.

 

[1st*toright]

I've sadly redeemed all mine form the ChasePay promo a few months back. I wonder where iced coffee falls?

• 50 stars – will get you any size cup of coffee, tea or bakery item
• 150 stars – will get you any handcrafted beverage or breakfast sandwich

If it goes to 150, it will take me forever to get free drinks.

I'm kind of excited about the changes - burning 125 stars on a cup of coffee seems dumb, so i have a whole bunch of stars sitting around from some promo or other because I only like to use stars to buy pricey drinks (and I consider mochas etc to be a treat, and try to stick to plain coffee most of the time). So I feel better about actually using my stars!

 

[Lain]

AmEx experts, can you educate me about product changing? I have two personal Plats (long story) and am planning to PC one to a personal Gold once the annual fee posts, which should be in early April. First, I'm pretty sure that I can do this, but someone correct me if I am wrong. Second, assuming I can do it at all, can I do it through chat? Or would I have to call? Usually I don't mind calling people but I really don't want to have to engage in a conversation about my pile of AmEx cards.

Yes, you can PC a personal Plat to a personal Gold (but then you’ll miss out on the Gold SUB if you didn’t previously have the Gold card).

Yes, you can PC via chat, but be careful what card product and account numbers you’re referring to, since Amex seems to like reusing the last 4-digits.

 

[FloridaNative8]

Somehow I manage to time very trip to Ulta to when I'm not wearing make up I'm going to Sephora for the first time this weekend with a friend. Maybe I'll slap some foundation on for that trip...

I like going into Sephora without makeup on, so I can try new things!! I think they get excited when they see how much makeup I might need

 

[georgina]

Has anyone cancelled a Universal room lately? I cancelled a room on last Thursday and got the confirmation right away, but still no refund on my CC.

Yes, I do it fairly regularly and it can take up to a week for the credit to show up.

Your post reminded me - Had one last year that I had charged and used travel points to erase on DH's Capital One card, then cancelled it months later. Not sure what will happen when I go to cancel the card.

 

[wed100105]

I'm unhappy with Starbucks new system. I have 7 free items and just started keto again until our spring break trip which is April 18. Bummer!

 

[striker1064]

I'm unhappy with Starbucks new system. I have 7 free items and just started keto again until our spring break trip which is April 18. Bummer!

No idea how Starbucks' reward system/free items work, but you can definitely do keto at Starbucks. I occasionally enjoyed an Americano with a splash of heavy cream and, if I was feeling froggy, a small bit of sugar-free vanilla syrup.

 

[Disneyonmymind]

CC update: My CIP arrived via UPS yesterday. Also, I should have my new Hilton biz by the end of the week. So excited to have new MSRs!! Also, I checked CK and Amex did not do a HP so more good news. As for where to use my points, we are thinking about Discovery Cove/ Sea World/ Aquatica in early/mid August. Anyone have advice for me?

 

[WVMomof3]

I'm kind of excited about the changes - burning 125 stars on a cup of coffee seems dumb, so i have a whole bunch of stars sitting around from some promo or other because I only like to use stars to buy pricey drinks (and I consider mochas etc to be a treat, and try to stick to plain coffee most of the time). So I feel better about actually using my stars!

This is DH too. He would try to get something special to use up his stars or take my DD with him. But really he just wants plain black coffee. A week ago he took me to use up some expiring stars and I got a Chai Latte.

 

[wanderlust7]

@SouthFayetteFan did you see the DPs on r/churning Discussion Thread of people getting checks from AmEx for missing bonuses?? Maybe you’ll get cold hard cash for your missing Hilton referral points!