Monthly Archive: May 2013

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    MILES&POINTS: Free 100 Best Buy RewardZone Points for signing up for Daily Deals email

    Best Buy is offering 100 free RewardZone points for signing up for their Daily Deals email newsletter. (You can unsubscribe after you sign up.) Go to this promotion page to sign up. (Must have a RewardZone account, which is free to create.) Offer ends 6/8/13.  The fine print: Bonus points will be deposited in your account by 6/17/13. Reward Zone members, who have not yet subscribed to Deal of the Day e-mails, will get 100 bonus points. Bonus points will not be multiplied. Bonus points will not be awarded for gift…… (click read more!)

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    • — 15 May, 2013

    MONEY: $10 off when you buy a $100 or more AMEX gift card at Safeway

    Last week I blogged about Safeway offering $15 off the purchase of any $100 or more MasterCard gift card. This week, they’re changing things up and offering $10 off your purchase of $100 or more in American Express gift cards after you load the offer on your Safeway Club account via JustForU. This offer is free for everyone to participate in, and is valid one offer per card. You can mix and match any amount of American Express gift cards, as long as the grand total hits $100 or more. But…… (click read more!)

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    MILES&POINTS: No purchase fee or shipping on Chase Gift Cards for a limited time!

    Chase, the major bank that controls some 90%+ of miles and rewards credit cards, is temporarily waiving its online purchase fee + standard shipping cost for orders of any of its gift cards due to an issue that has caused them temporarily not be able to offer gift cards for purchase through brick & mortar Chase branches. This is actually good news for miles & points enthusiasts, as it opens up a no fee option for generating some extra miles/points using your favorite miles earning credit cards. This is also a…… (click read more!)

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    MILES&POINTS: Club Carlson’s 10k bonus gold points per stay promotion (for until 7/21/13)

    Club Carlson is running a promotion right now where members can earn 10,000 Gold points for each stay of two nights or more, with no limitations on how many points you can earn total, on stays from May 13 through July 21, 2013. How to get in on this promotion: Register for the promotion here first. (If you do not have a Club Carlson account yet, create one for free here.) Book a two (2) (or more) consecutive night stay at participating Radisson Blu, Radisson®, Park Plaza®, Park Inn by Radisson…… (click read more!)

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    • — 10 May, 2013

    MONEY: Buy any $100 MasterCard gift card & get $15 off instantly at Safeway–MONEY MAKER!

    I was strolling through my local Safeway and browsing Safeway’s JustForU savings app on the iPhone when I noticed that under the Coupon Center > Specials for this week, the $15 off any $100 MasterCard gift card deal was back!  I quickly added it to my card and went to the cashier. Just like the last time when they ran the deal (with Visa cards last time), the discount was automatically applied once I had typed in my Safeway Club Card number (Safeway’s free-to-join loyalty program), and even showed up on…… (click read more!)

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    AIR: Feeling influential? Then get a free one-day pass to AA’s Admirals Club via your Klout score

    Tuning over to Miles Momma, American Airlines has a special promotion with social media group Klout, where if you have enough social media influence, you may automatically gain a free one-day pass to the American Airlines’s Admirals Lounge. Your influence count, as scored by Klout, is based on a number of factors, but primarily how many people like/share/retweet your latest posts either on Facebook or Twitter, depending on which one you connect on the promotion page. Visit the promotion page to get in on this offer If you your Klout returns…… (click read more!)

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    AIR: Get a Virgin America 25% off code for San Jose to Los Angeles travel + a chance to win Elevate Gold

    Virgin America is running a promotion to celebrate their new San Jose to Los Angeles #nerdbird travel route by giving away a lucky winner free Elevate Gold status + 15 one-time use onboard wifi codes! Awesome! And for everyone, you get a 25% off one-time use promo code for any San Jose to Los Angeles (or vice versa) travel on Virgin America, as long as you book by May 21st and fly by October 31, 2013. Click here to enter on Facebook. Good luck! (Although I am happy with just the…… (click read more!)

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    UP-IN-THE-AIR: Mileage run to San Juan, Puerto Rico w/ exploration advice from NYTimes Travel, Mosey, & Yelp

    Tomorrow afternoon I will be departing for a mileage run to San Juan, Puerto Rico. For those of you who are unaware, a mileage run is a flight purchased (with cash and not miles or vouchers) for the primary purpose of earning elite status qualifying miles in order to maintain or achieve a frequent flyer status. The truest form of a mileage run is when the passenger does not even leave the airports. Mileage runs are purchased generally with simply the cost per elite status mile as the deciding factor……. (click read more!)

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    CREDITCARDS: That amazing 75k sign up offer for AMEX Business Gold Card is still active

    For those of you who are regularly following other blogs in the miles & points blogosphere undoubtedly have seen this somewhat elusive, but still amazing, 75k Membership Rewards (MR) points sign up offer for the American Express Business Gold Reward Card floating around everywhere. The increased promotional offer–50% higher than the normal 50,000 MR points sign up offer–is the highest many miles enthusiasts have seen for this card. In fact, 75,000 MR points is roughly worth: Roughly $750 when redeeming for gift cards Or $1,000+ in value for flights or hotels…… (click read more!)

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    AIR: Virgin America 3-day Fall sale & JetBlue 2-day Summer sale starts now! Includes SF to NYC for $139 each way!

    Virgin America is running a 3-day sale on select routes with solid fares for this coming Fall, including SJC to LAX for $49 each way, LAX to LAS for $49 each way, and SFO to New York for $139 each way. That SFO to New York price is a particularly excellent deal that comes out to only $278 roundtrip! Any West Coast to East Coast roundtrip flight that comes out to under $280 is always a winner. In my opinion, travel to my two favorite U.S. cities makes that an even…… (click read more!)

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    MILES&POINTS: Earn up to 5,000 bonus United miles with your next Hilton stay!

    United Airlines and Hilton Hotels have partnered up with a promotional offer where United MileagePlus members can earn 1,000 bonus award miles for each stay of two nights or more, up to 5,000 bonus miles, at any hotel within the Hilton HHonors portfolio between April 4 and June 30, 2013. To be eligible for this offer you must do the following: Be a member of Hilton HHonors and United MileagePlus (both free to join) Select United Airlines as your preferred Double Dip® Points & Miles Partner in your Hilton HHonors account…… (click read more!)

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    GIVEAWAY: April Giveaway Winners!

    Good morning readers! I have to apologize for being MIA for the past week. I was traveling and visiting my family back in Taiwan, and was without reliable internet for the entire week. That being said, I did select winners for my April Giveaway early last week and had actually notified them via email last week as well! Almost all of them have also been mailed out–pending one for the last winner, as well as an additional winner that I have just selected and will explain shortly. The prizes were one-time use…… (click read more!)

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