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

[smmco]

Has anyone had their AMEX SUB MR points go into pending????? I've read that SUB points get posted right away. I met my spend July 5. My points are now showing in July pending. I have 4k points pending for June. If they treat this like regular spend MR's I won't get these points until end of August.

 

[elgerber]

I am also firmly in the camp of rodents over cockroaches, any day!!! We had a pet rat once, they are adorable.

 

[disneybirds]

So safeway has a deal on happy cards. Does anyone know if you can use a safeway gift certificate to buy them?

I have bought some Safeway GCs through the Amazon deal to try when we are in Oregon, but it will be two weeks before I know. I really think it is YMMV and can vary by store. Last summer I had no issue with the physical Safeway GCs, but more issues with the eGCs but they did finally get them to work. I only bought as much as we would spend on groceries and gas while out there in case I can't buy Disney GCs.

 

[amalone1013]

How do I not have this but you do!?!? We live in the same metro area!!

You'll have to come visit us!

With all the famous connection talk, I can’t believe I forgot to mention i shopped and delivered Luke Bryan’s groceries a few weeks ago. Shipt life.

I really loved him when he first came out, before everyone started copying his 'bro country' and now that's still all you hear from the guys on the radio... and not all of his stuff of his first few CDs was like that either.

 

[hsmamato2]

Ok since I can't do a lot until Sept. (UR's) I'm considering upgrading my Hh to Ascend 3k/150k..... this won't add to my count anyway right? Or smarter to just app for it? the offer I found with a new app is 2k/125k..... So I like the upgrade deal better,and since we have two cards (1 AU) we should get two cards upon upgrade with no hit to 5/24 right? wwyd?

 

[Judique]

As I'm reading this I'm thinking about how nice it would have been to understand the hacking game 10 years ago when I took my family on a wild island camping trip to Assateague b/c it was the most affordable way to go... 5 nights in a tent on the wild seashore,biking and wandering among all the beauty.... our tent in a hurricane...all those ticks covering our tent screen like a blanket...oh but then we would have missed the adventure(?) this just makes me laugh now

A couple years back we got there late one evening with our pop up that we had then. I've had 3 pop ups and many tents and have used both at Assateaugue. Parked the pop up and drove to the Francis Scott Key which had last minute rooms and ordered pizza. It was raining and blowing wind and sand hard.

Next morning was beautiful and we finished out the weekend actually camping. I've only camped on the State Park side. The National Park side is more rustic, ie pit toilets and more mosquitos - state may actually spray but I don't know for sure. I know they spray for mosquitos at Point Lookout. The State side has hot showers and very nice restrooms as far as camping goes. And the ponies come to both areas. Plus the camp hosts pick up what the ponies leave behind.

I haven't been able to camp at Assateague recently because no one wants to go and all the camping is a lot of work and more than I can do alone right now.

 

[magickingdomprincess]

That is true, but if you time it so your balance is $0 at statement close then you don’t get charged the fee.
Thanks! I went ahead and signed up. So, when starting out, I'd imagine I could transfer out each time I do a load to make sure the balance is zero?

With all the famous connection talk, I can’t believe I forgot to mention i shopped and delivered Luke Bryan’s groceries a few weeks ago. Shipt life.

Ooh, super exciting! I love Luke Bryan! He seems like such a nice guy. If he's not I don't want to know My favorite is Eric Church though. He is totally awesome in concert!

Gosh darn it, this kills me. Why not in my area!?!?!? Hasn’t been on there at all in months!

Same here! View attachment 416034

 

[amalone1013]

10% of $50 SW eGCs
https://www.doctorofcredit.com/save-10-on-southwest-e-gift-cards-from-ppdg/
This is PPDG, so paying through Paypal should trigger Discover cashback, yes? And is it a limit of 3 SW GCs per ticket, or per order? Obviously if it is per ticket could do tickets separately.

 

[afan]

Just realized, from reading a tpg post, hangs head in shame, but it was a reader story so a bit better.

Anyway, with needed delta flights to tokyo and back from beijing in 1st cause they are both non stop. Would it male more sense for me to collect ur to transfer to virgin? It's for sept 2021.

It'd be less miles correct? Not sure I can look it up without a ff account and can't look now. I want to get enough to cover us both at least in 1st there and whatever back which we're good with. Just trying to do it with less cards etc and at least with the cippy cup if it continues it'd be easier than all mr for dl and hilton.

 

[Alexle2007]

Has anyone had their AMEX SUB MR points go into pending????? I've read that SUB points get posted right away. I met my spend July 5. My points are now showing in July pending. I have 4k points pending for June. If they treat this like regular spend MR's I won't get these points until end of August.

I just received my BBP 10k a couple of days after I met the MSR. It never went pending.

 

[1st*toright]

10% of $50 SW eGCs
https://www.doctorofcredit.com/save-10-on-southwest-e-gift-cards-from-ppdg/
This is PPDG, so paying through Paypal should trigger Discover cashback, yes? And is it a limit of 3 SW GCs per ticket, or per order? Obviously if it is per ticket could do tickets separately.

Its 3 payment types per person flying. If one person is flying and your 3 gift cards cover everything, that's fine, but if 3 gift cards leave you with $5 left to pay in cash, you will only be able to use 2 of them, because you'll need to pay the balance by credit card.

If you have multiple people flying it seems to apply the gift cards per person - can wind up with strange results. If you were planning to use a $200 gift card to cover one $150 flight and roll the other $50 to the other person, I think that still counts as a payment method for your second person.

I wound up having to split into 2 different reservations to get my crazy amalgamation of gift cards/vouchers to come to the right amount so I could use my amex credit to top off. I think I used 5 payment methods on one reservation and 3 on the other (my luv vouchers took up one slot for each of us and some of my gift cards only had small amounts left on them).

 

[amalone1013]

Its 3 payment types per person flying, so if your 3 gift cards cover everything, that's fine, if 3 gift cards leave you with $5 left to pay in cash, you will only be able to use 2 of them, because you'll need to pay the balance by credit card. I wound up having to split into 2 different reservations to get my crazy amalgamation of gift cards/vouchers to come to the right amount so I could use my amex credit to top off. I think I used 5 payment methods on one reservation and 3 on the other (my luv vouchers took up one slot for each of us).

Thank you!!

 

[platamama]

Ok since I can't do a lot until Sept. (UR's) I'm considering upgrading my Hh to Ascend 3k/150k..... this won't add to my count anyway right? Or smarter to just app for it? the offer I found with a new app is 2k/125k..... So I like the upgrade deal better,and since we have two cards (1 AU) we should get two cards upon upgrade with no hit to 5/24 right? wwyd?

I'd do the upgrade! It won't affect your 5/24 and you'll get new cards for both the primary and AU. Plus the bonus is larger and you're looking for something to MSR anyway until you can do the CIP.

 

[elgerber]

Ok, so this is odd. FedEx just pulled up. My new gift card that they did resend isn't coming till Friday. The driver got up, got out her scanner thingy, went in the back of the truck for a couple of minutes, then went back to the front, looked at her scanner, looked puzzled, shut the door and drove away, delivering nothing.

 

[platamama]

I did a spreadsheet this morning to see how much I saved in airfare for 2019. So far.

$14,500 for 3 travelers. My OOP costs have been $406.

Ok, ok, I'm giving myself credit for the astronomical one-way AA flight back home from Costa Rica. But that's the exact flight times I want so I'm counting it.

 

[amalone1013]

Another SW question... how long do the vouchers take to come if you cancel a flight?

 

[platamama]

Another SW question... how long do the vouchers take to come if you cancel a flight?

Immediately. You just use the original confirmation code as your ticketless travel funds (is this what you mean by "voucher"?) for the next flight you want to apply the funds to. Name on confirmation has to match the name on the new flight. 12 mo. expiration starting from the original booking date.

 

[amalone1013]

Immediately. You just use the original confirmation code as your ticketless travel funds (is this what you mean by "voucher"?) for the next flight you want to apply the funds to. Name on confirmation has to match the name on the new flight. 12 mo. expiration starting from the original booking date.

that's right! Obviously I haven't done many cash bookings in the last few years

 

[elgerber]

DH applied for the CIP, of course got the need more info message. Let the status dialing begin.

 

[platamama]

that's right! Obviously I haven't done many cash bookings in the last few years

Me neither!

But the times I did so previously were somewhat annoying so that experience has stuck in my head. I SW RRs.