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[palhockeymomof2]

Question on MR points....Haven’t opened any American Express cards..started looking into their business cards and how to use MR points....

compared two hotel stays I have booked in Orlando...both 2br villas...with UR points....in both cases the MR points needed for the same stay is way more than UR points...
248,301 MRs vs 87,946 URs
172,286 MRs vs 79,166 URs
So it would appear booking hotels that way may not be a good use of points....is it better to transfer them to partners, cash them out...wondering how people use them, to see if they would work for us

 

[Haley R]

Are they textbooks? I have quite a few that I want to get rid of, but the catch is that they're loose leaf. I think publishers have gotten wise and only offer the texts this way, so the ability to rent/sell back is taken away. I'd rather sell the ones I have (because I will never need my Intro to Humanities text ever again), but I'm not sure of the success rate of offloading loose leaf texts.

One is a textbook because it's Dh's, but the rest are all of my personal books I bought from Barnes and Noble. My bookshelves are getting too full so I was trying to sell them. I will probably just end up giving some to my niece and donating the rest to Goodwill. We usually donate a pile of things every two months to Goodwill. I might look on Ebay today and see if I could sell them on there, but I'm not getting my hopes up. Amazon has a textbook trade-in system. That's what we used for most of our textbooks during and after college. You could try that. I'm not sure if they will take loose-leaf books or not.

 

[Haley R]

I think you select your start date. So if you won’t go till day 2 then make that your start date.

I think you might be right, but do you have to use it on that start date? I read online someone said you could choose a start date before your trip starts because it might be cheaper than the other options. It all just sounds too confusing to me.

 

[elgerber]

I think you might be right, but do you have to use it on that start date? I read online someone said you could choose a start date before your trip starts because it might be cheaper than the other options. It all just sounds too confusing to me.

Ahh. From what I read you choose a start date, number of days, then you can use them on any days within your time limit (which is based on how many days you buy). So I think you can start when you want as long as you use them within your allotted time.

 

[Haley R]

Ahh. From what I read you choose a start date, number of days, then you can use them on any days within your time limit (which is based on how many days you buy). So I think you can start when you want as long as you use them within your allotted time.

I guess I'm most confused about the allotted time. Is it your length of stay?

 

[elgerber]

I guess I'm most confused about the allotted time. Is it your length of stay?

I don’t know if anyone knows exactly, but it’s how many days you buy. Not how many you stay. Something like you buy 4 days, you have 6 days to use them from the start date you select, and you can use them on whichever 4 of the 6 days you choose. Again this is just an example based on what I have read, we don’t know what the actual number of days you will have is, as far as I know.

 

[tink1970]

So it would appear booking hotels that way may not be a good use of points....is it better to transfer them to partners, cash them out...wondering how people use them, to see if they would work for us

I use them to either top off my Delta SkyPesos account for an award ticket or use them for straight award tickets via Delta/AirFrance/Virgin. So...flying comfortably overseas is what I do with them

 

[Tigger2ntinkerbell]

Has SouthWest/Chase credit card changed their policy on approved applications?. Is this something new??
I was approved - very good limit and congratulation email . But I was never given an account number.
Email just stated I will received credit card within 10 days.

 

[Haley R]

I don’t know if anyone knows exactly, but it’s how many days you buy. Not how many you stay. Something like you buy 4 days, you have 6 days to use them from the start date you select, and you can use them on whichever 4 of the 6 days you choose. Again this is just an example based on what I have read, we don’t know what the actual number of days you will have is, as far as I know.

That makes a lot more sense. Thank you!

 

[palhockeymomof2]

Has SouthWest/Chase credit card changed their policy on approved applications?. Is this something new??
I was approved - very good limit and congratulation email . But I was never given an account number.
Email just stated I will received credit card within 10 days.

I have never received an account number when approved for my SW cards....just received the card within 10 days

 

[georgina]

I guess I'm most confused about the allotted time. Is it your length of stay?

I believe it depends on wether or not you are staying onsite. There are some CMs on the ticket thread in Theme Parks Attractions and Strategies who know what's up and answer everyone's questions about the new tickets.

 

[palhockeymomof2]

I use them to either top off my Delta SkyPesos account for an award ticket or use them for straight award tickets via Delta/AirFrance/Virgin. So...flying comfortably overseas is what I do with them

Thanks....We are looking to go to Europe in 2020...destination isn’t set or airline...traveling with another couple so a bit hard to plan

 

[mmmears]

Question on MR points....Haven’t opened any American Express cards..started looking into their business cards and how to could use MR points....

compared two hotel stays I have booked in Orlando...both 2br villas...with UR points....in both cases the MR points needed for the same stay is way more than UR points...
248,301 MRs vs 87,946 URs
172,286 MRs vs 79,166 URs
So it would appear booking hotels that way may not be a good use of points....is it better to transfer them to partners, cash them out...wondering how people use them, to see if they would work for us

I'm trying to figure this stuff out, too. So far we have used both AMEX and Chase points to top off current point balances with both Hyatt and Marriott when we were just under what we needed to book hotels we wanted.

We typically use MRs to travel overseas since we aren't willing to fly coach on those 11 hour flights and we also aren't going to pay $$$ for J or 1st class seats. For example, we spent roughly 350K MRs for 3 J-class seats to/from Europe (one way on Air France (longer 2 segment flight so required more miles, and the return on British Air). AMEX had a "sale" on Avios points, so the BA flights were a decent deal for the MRs.

 

[mmmears]

Thanks....We are looking to go to Europe in 2020...destination isn’t set or airline...traveling with another couple so a bit hard to plan

We had the destinations set (DCL cruise) but just went with whichever airline had the award seats available for our party # and dates. MRs can be transferred to many different airlines.

 

[trenty]

Question on MR points....Haven’t opened any American Express cards..started looking into their business cards and how to use MR points....

compared two hotel stays I have booked in Orlando...both 2br villas...with UR points....in both cases the MR points needed for the same stay is way more than UR points...
248,301 MRs vs 87,946 URs
172,286 MRs vs 79,166 URs
So it would appear booking hotels that way may not be a good use of points....is it better to transfer them to partners, cash them out...wondering how people use them, to see if they would work for us

I have used MR points to transfer to Jet Blue (before URs were an option). It is not a 1:1 transfer normally. However when I needed the JB points MR was running a sale on them and I did get 1:1. I have also used MR to transfer to Delta.

 

[palhockeymomof2]

I'm trying to figure this stuff out, too. So far we have used both AMEX and Chase points to top off current point balances with both Hyatt and Marriott when we were just under what we needed to book hotels we wanted.

We typically use MRs to travel overseas since we aren't willing to fly coach on those 11 hour flights and we also aren't going to pay $$$ for J or 1st class seats. For example, we spent roughly 350K MRs for 3 J-class seats to/from Europe (one way on Air France (longer 2 segment flight so required more miles, and the return on British Air). AMEX had a "sale" on Avios points, so the BA flights were a decent deal for the MRs.

Thanks....it looks like the MRs would be good for our 2020 trip to Europe....

We don’t have any hotel cards...our trips to Orlando involve using our DVC points...we combine seeing our son and Disney trips so usually go 4 times a year and fly SW....I’ve made sure we’ve had a CP for years and lots of RR points.
That’s what made Chases URs valuable to us the ability to transfer to SW.

Since I’m trying to save up DVC points to bring friends...I’ve been using UR points for hotel stays...just seemed odd to me that it cost so many more MRs than URs to book the same room...

 

[palhockeymomof2]

We had the destinations set (DCL cruise) but just went with whichever airline had the award seats available for our party # and dates. MRs can be transferred to many different airlines.

Thanks...good to know

 

[Alexle2007]

They will refund the AF if it posts.

The AF posted on 10/1 so I am trying to get closed and the AF refunded by 10/28 when the payment is due.

 

[LuckyMamaInDE]

How'd this work out for you? I just did Shoprite yesterday and was happy to see the sign clamped to all the registers advertising the Chase Pay, even in my little SR, but the cashier still didn't know how to work it. He did the, 'oh I think you tap that there' and I was very quick to say 'nope, you need to scan this QR code here, that's the only way it works. do you have a different payment option maybe?' so he pressed something and tried the scanner gun but it wasn't active so no scan. Fortunately there was a couple of the CS leaders nearby so I didn't have long to wait, he called over, one said "Oh wait, yeah, I know how to do that!". This is the part that wasn't helpful, she said "you go here, then Chase Bank, then here" and voila the scanner gun is now active and scanned the code. But no idea what the "here" and "here" were and how that translates into the self checkout. Was it easy, did a Chase option pop up as a payment type?

I went through self-scan as usual, but there was no obvious choice for Chase Pay when I reached the payment screen. My transaction had to be susiended then transferred to the cashier terminal (the one that covers all the self-scan registers). She had to select something on the screen, then scan a code on a laminated card, and then scan my QR code.

The cashier had no problem at all with using Chase Pay; it seemed like she had done it many times already.

 

[afan]

One is a textbook because it's Dh's, but the rest are all of my personal books I bought from Barnes and Noble. My bookshelves are getting too full so I was trying to sell them. I will probably just end up giving some to my niece and donating the rest to Goodwill. We usually donate a pile of things every two months to Goodwill. I might look on Ebay today and see if I could sell them on there, but I'm not getting my hopes up. Amazon has a textbook trade-in system. That's what we used for most of our textbooks during and after college. You could try that. I'm not sure if they will take loose-leaf books or not.

Do you have any good used bookstores nearby? I don't here, but when I was in Charlotte there was one that would take books and give you credit and let you use the credit for the full amt due including tax. There was another that let you use credit for only half the purchase. It all depends on what you can find. I found this to be better and easier plus I'd get new to me books