I love credit cards so much!

[mrocco90]

Are you definitely flying JB.....There are a lot of Chase cards that earn UR points which can be used to book different airlines and hotels...if you let us know what credit cards you currently have and when you opened them we can give you better advice on which cards to apply for...

Thank you. I have chase freedom, chase freedom unlimited, discover it, Disney, and southwest. I’m most likely flying JetBlue because their rates seem at the moment.

 

[palhockeymomof2]

Don’t know if this is true or not...but someone in the daily discussion thread on r/churning is saying their Chase BRM told him they will be discontinuing the CIC soon....sooo since it’s been over 2 months since my CSR....I applied and received my first Chase business card instant approval

 

[CyndiLouWho]

It was a good mail day...I was busy but so happy I ran home for lunch. Got my new FANCY rose gold Amex and also half of the BJ’s gift cards I have ordered. Maxed out Discover on BJ’s. Keeping Freedom for Costco.

Any idea how long BJs will GCs on promo? And what is the price at Sam’s? I don’t have a membership for either but can use someone else’s Sam’s membership.

 

[palhockeymomof2]

Okay, but you don't get a bonus for the damaged card, right?

Lol...no....I’m just not sure What info they ask and my dog...cute as she is doesn’t have a SS number..

 

[palhockeymomof2]

Thank you. I have chase freedom, chase freedom unlimited, discover it, Disney, and southwest. I’m most likely flying JetBlue because their rates seem at the moment.

As long as you haven’t opened 5 cards in the last 24 months ...If your open to the idea of a business card the chase ink Preferred has a 80,000ur bonus after spending $5,000 the first 3 months....the URs can be transfer to Jet Blue

 

[Albort]

I downloaded the gyft app to get the 5% using the CIC linked to PayPal, but it hasn't worked for me yet. Everytime I try to buy a card it says "there was a problem connecting to Paypal's servers try again." It did this a week ago and now I just tried again, same thing.
When I went to the website to do it, my transaction was denied.
Any ideas?

android phone huh?

 

[Oscar Madison]

Any idea how long BJs will GCs on promo? And what is the price at Sam’s? I don’t have a membership for either but can use someone else’s Sam’s membership.

$142.98 for $150 is the best deal.

 

[Oscar Madison]

android phone huh?

Yep

 

[MrPTato]

Anyone use Cash App? It is like Venmo but you can get a debit card with the App. It also gives you discounts like $1.00 off from any coffee shop once every 30 minutes, 10% off Chic Fil A, Chipotle, Dominos, Whole Foods, DQ, Shake Shack. I think the coffee shop discount would be the best value as it is just about 50% off a coffee daily, or multiple times if you need it.

 

[speedyfishy]

Not in the major leagues like you...only about $4k into that account. Maybe he just wants to upgrade my account!?

Yeah I feel like 4K isn’t a lot where I’d worry about it.

Wowza! No offense to you, but how in the world is this not a red flag to a bank to deposit that many money orders every month??

I worked my way up to that amount. Funny thing too is I have a student account still.

 

[mmmears]

I'm snickering just reading about it so good for you for not LOLing until they were away from you

I've been eyeing the Baltic Cruise for a while and am hoping to go maybe in 2020. I'm definitely not a City Mouse myself which is why I love cruising...I can dip in and dip out at my leisure. I'd love to do what @CaliforniaGirl09 and @Calfan did and B2B a Baltics/N-I-S. That would be a most excellent way to celebrate my 50th in 2020 now that I'm thinking about it...

I think it would be a great way to celebrate. That NIS cruise we took was for a big birthday, too. I loved the little towns that we sailed to in Norway. And all the fresh air and beautiful vistas. I'm looking at the Baltic for 2020, too, but we're more likely to save up for Australia or the Far East. Oh, and I really want a nice Adriatic cruise. Too many options!

I am many, many pages behind after getting off the Disney Magic today. We had a great cruise to Bermuda and I hope to catch up here over the next couple of days. Did I miss anything big in the past week?

Glad you had a nice time! I had wanted to be on that cruise (DD's Fall Break is this week and she would have been able to take the train to the ship rather than flying home to CA). How were the seas? I heard they can be rough around there.

OMG clearly he's been blocked before because he used a different name to offer 8.62. C'mon give me a break. I will continue blocking you all day and report you if I need to, though I don't know what that would do.

I keep inching towards trying Ebay so I can have a "business" then I read stuff like this and run the other way.

 

[speedyfishy]

Anyone use Cash App? It is like Venmo but you can get a debit card with the App. It also gives you discounts like $1.00 off from any coffee shop once every 30 minutes, 10% off Chic Fil A, Chipotle, Dominos, Whole Foods, DQ, Shake Shack. I think the coffee shop discount would be the best value as it is just about 50% off a coffee daily, or multiple times if you need it.

I tried to load prepaid cards and couldn’t get it to work.

 

[Albort]

Yep

something to do with the android connection to gyft.com. i havent had a chance to look into how to fix it yet. i have this issue on my S6 as well.

 

[RedM94]

Hello All,

I have been dormant from the boards for several months and just scanned the last ten pages looking for information on Chase Sapphire preferred bonus. I seem to remember reading about apply for the CSP and another
Chase card at the same time to double the bonus. Is this still a viable strategy?

 

[mmmears]

Hello All,

I have been dormant from the boards for several months and just scanned the last ten pages looking for information on Chase Sapphire preferred bonus. I seem to remember reading about apply for the CSP and another
Chase card at the same time to double the bonus. Is this still a viable strategy?

Sadly, the CSP/CSR DD is gone. It can't be done any more. I'm not an expert so I will leave others to explain or answer further questions.

 

[afan]

I keep inching towards trying Ebay so I can have a "business" then I read stuff like this and run the other way.

I've never had trouble like this though it's been awhile since I sold anything. I wouldn't use this as a reason not to, though I know @amalone1013 has had her share of issues lately as well. I only use it for stuff that I need a wider audience for and can get money out of. Honestly, most stuff is donated unless we know we'll have a garage sale soon. And if I don't sell this it'll just go back on the shelf, I just don't need/want it any more. But I was a part of those racing seasons and while I'm not in it co-workers are so it's kinda fun that way.

He's now messaged me saying he's willing to pay the min bid but wants me to lower shipping. The book is 10x13 and weights at least 3lbs, there's a reason I'm sending it priority, cause then I don't need to worry about the weight and I can track it.

I've already blocked him from bidding so can I just ignore the message since he's essentially making an offer within the message which I'm guessing he probably shouldn't be doing?

ETA I can tell from his user name that he's a fan of the race team the book is from, but that's also why I don't get why he's such a pain. But I can only imagine, despite his positive feedback, that if I were to send it book mail he'd get mad about how long it takes/the state it arrives in and want his money back so I really don't want to deal with him. Just need to know I can ignore him.

 

[jhoannam]

Regarding the tickets... as most of you know, I'm at WDW right now. (Kona Cafe for breakfast soon, yeah!) but good night on the pricing... and the crowds as @Lain wrote. The amount of people here has just been massive and there's no holidays going on and school is in session.

The heat has been just miserable so far. It was hot last October for Food and Wine but not this bad. I'm starting my 3rd day here, and I had to do laundry last night (at midnight) because we've sweat through so many clothes already. 3 showers a day, each.

On Monday I snapped a photo of the ticket pricing at Epcot. Yesterday I snapped a photo of the pricing at Animal Kingdom. I did this so DH could understand and see the price hike. He couldn't believe the $300 jump on the 4 day (and then said, wait, hoppers cost more? I'm like, yeah where have you been? Can you tell who does the planning?)

We've gotten great value out of our APs this year but they expire Tuesday, just after this trip. We've gotten 20 park days each out of them so that is a lot for a couple that doesn't live anywhere near Florida I think.

The parking price hike is egregious - and now the CM are asking for a photo ID at the booths too. Never had that happen before, but now we've been asked each time. (Sea World parking is $22 FYI which is also outlandish).

I really like my SSR room and this resort a lot. I was worried about buying it before because I would never spend thousands sight unseen on something any other time. So now I've stayed here and like it but I worry about the constant ticket increase, over and over which kind of means I don't know what to do: buy DVC as planned or not? I think we'd be on the every other year/AP plan if we do proceed. Too expensive to go yearly.

You just know another price hike is coming when SWL opens. It's not even a question. I don't know how people with kids come here, and that's sad. It's a family place!

I’m sure it’s already been said but just in case it hasn’t, a lot of Midwest schools have “fall break” our district is out 10/17-10/22... we went to Disney during our 2014 & 2016 fall break. And the crowds were nuts and Disney had like 3 parties during that time. We went in May this year and it was awesome - FOP was down to under an hour at 5pm when we were there.

 

[Lain]

Hello All,

I have been dormant from the boards for several months and just scanned the last ten pages looking for information on Chase Sapphire preferred bonus. I seem to remember reading about apply for the CSP and another
Chase card at the same time to double the bonus. Is this still a viable strategy?

Sadly, the CSP/CSR DD is gone. It can't be done any more. I'm not an expert so I will leave others to explain or answer further questions.

Technically speaking, I believe a "double dip," aka applying for 2 Chase cards on the same day, is still "possible." However, even if you are approved for both cards, Chase will see you've applied and been approved for two cards in one day, flag your cards for review, then manually cancel one. It doesn't matter if you're double dipping to get around the one card per family rules, combine a hard pull, get two cards out of your 4/24 slot, or even if you're way under 5/24 and could have otherwise opened both cards on different days. Chase will close one of your double dip cards. So DON'T DO IT (and waste a slot).

 

[Alexle2007]

I purchased my SW GCs on 10/16 for my AmEx Plat and Gold credits but I still don’t see the credits for them. How long should it take? I know when I use the AmEx other offers, they typically post the next day or the following.

 

[palhockeymomof2]

I've never had trouble like this though it's been awhile since I sold anything. I wouldn't use this as a reason not to, though I know @amalone1013 has had her share of issues lately as well. I only use it for stuff that I need a wider audience for and can get money out of. Honestly, most stuff is donated unless we know we'll have a garage sale soon. And if I don't sell this it'll just go back on the shelf, I just don't need/want it any more. But I was a part of those racing seasons and while I'm not in it co-workers are so it's kinda fun that way.

He's now messaged me saying he's willing to pay the min bid but wants me to lower shipping. The book is 10x13 and weights at least 3lbs, there's a reason I'm sending it priority, cause then I don't need to worry about the weight and I can track it.

I've already blocked him from bidding so can I just ignore the message since he's essentially making an offer within the message which I'm guessing he probably shouldn't be doing?

ETA I can tell from his user name that he's a fan of the race team the book is from, but that's also why I don't get why he's such a pain. But I can only imagine, despite his positive feedback, that if I were to send it book mail he'd get mad about how long it takes/the state it arrives in and want his money back so I really don't want to deal with him. Just need to know I can ignore him.

I just know how to block user Names..if he keeps opening new ones to bid...ugh...maybe try calling eBay if he happens to win and explain the situation