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Nov. 9, 2024

๐Ÿค‘ My Top Finds, Latest Deals, and Best Recommendations (11/09/24)

๐Ÿค‘ My Top Finds, Latest Deals, and Best Recommendations (11/09/24)

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๐Ÿค‘ Latest Deals

๐ŸŽ Gift Cards Deals (Up to 44% Off)

First, the โ€‹Pepper appโ€‹ regularly has sales on major brand gift cards (e.g. Amazon, Sam's Club, Nike, Lowes) for 12-20% off. You earn your "cash back" in the form of "Pepper Coins", some of which are awarded a few weeks later, and can be used for shopping on the platform.

Even better, there's currently a card-linked offer for $15 off $50 that you can activate to all your cards at once with โ€‹CardPointers Proโ€‹, and if you're a new user, you can get $20 off $200 with a referral code (mine is 612342). These both stack on any gift card sales, so when Amazon cards were on sale yesterday for 14% off, I picked up 10x $50 cards on each of 10 cards with the offer, ending up with $500 of gift cards for $280, or 44% off Amazon.

Separately, there are a few Gift Card sales worth looking at right now:

If you don’t have a Costco membership, Groupon is offering a โ€‹$45 digital Costco gift cardโ€‹ with new memberships until 12/22.

๐Ÿฒ Get $25 Back on Dining with The Infatuation

On โ€‹Ep #185โ€‹, I spoke about how I love โ€‹The Infatuationโ€‹ for restaurant reviews, and they have a promotion to โ€‹earn $25โ€‹ when you link your account to Chase and spend $100+ at an eligible restaurant.

๐Ÿ’ณ 10% Back at Small Businesses

Through 12/13, you can get โ€‹10% backโ€‹ (up to $15) when using your American Express branded Cards on "Shop Small" purchases across dining, spa and personal care categories in support of small businesses.


๐Ÿ›ซ Travel, Points & Miles

๐Ÿ›๏ธ Earn an Extra 15k Miles from Shopping

While โ€‹Rakutenโ€‹ is my typical shopping portal for earning cash back, the holiday bonuses from these five airline shopping portals are too good to pass up, with some boosting your total earning to 7% or more. Also, giftcards.com is a merchant on all five portals, which may be helpful if you don't have immediate plans to spend enough to earn them all. Just make sure also opt-in to the giftcards.com rewards program too.

๐Ÿ” Current Transfer Bonuses

There are currently 4 transfer bonuses available. So if you're planning a trip, you might be able to score a great deal with these:

Also, โ€‹here’s a good articleโ€‹ with insights on how often airline and hotel programs offer transfer bonuses.

๐Ÿ’ฐ Points & Miles on Sale

I wouldn’t recommend buying points speculatively but if you’re familiar with these programs or have a specific redemption in mind, these bonuses could offer great value. The Hawaiian sale is the most interesting, because you can convert Hawaiian points to Alaska, which regularly offer >1.27¢ of value. 

๐Ÿ›ซ Flying Blue Promo Rewards List For November 2024

Air France-KLM's Flying Blue โ€‹Promo Rewards list for November 2024โ€‹ is live with a 25% discount on economy award flights between Europe and Denver, Ottawa, Seattle, Vancouver, Boston and New York.

P.S. โ€‹Kids aged 2-12 get 25% offโ€‹ Flying Blue award tickets, and make s ure to use the โ€‹“secret” award calendarโ€‹ to find availability.

๐Ÿจ Marriott Bonvoy Elite Status Soft Landing

Marriott Bonvoy is continuing their โ€‹"soft landing" policyโ€‹, which is helpful if you didn't re-qualify for status this year. It says: "Members who did not re-achieve their existing Elite Status will be offered one tier below their current status through February 2026". So if you had Titanium this year, you'll at least retain Platinum perks for next year.

๐Ÿ’บ Virgin Atlantic's Reward Flight Checker

With their recent shift to dynamic award pricing, Virgin Atlantic's โ€‹Reward Flight Checkerโ€‹ has become a valuable tool for finding the best award flight deals. It lets you search for pricing across all cabins for a month at a time, potentially covering an entire year of availability on a particular route. Since Virgin is a transfer partner of all credit card points, this could be helpful for everyone to find some good flight deals.

 

๐Ÿ•ต๏ธ Great Finds

๐Ÿ—บ๏ธ The Secret Economics of Google Street View

I came across this interesting video that shares the hidden economics behind Google Street View. It shows how businesses, individuals, and organizations are contributing images for the purposes of promotion, tourism and data collection.

๐Ÿ  Why Housing is Everyone's Favorite Investment

Ben Carlson recently used some historical data to show how โ€‹housing’s illiquidity contributes to its perceived stabilityโ€‹. I enjoyed his take, even if I knew the takeaway that diversification is important!

 

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