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A person added as an authorized user may be disqualified by Chase’s 5/24 rule from getting their own credit cards.

http://frequentmiler.boardingarea.com/2016/03/28/the-chase-authorized-user-dilemma-for-2-adult-households/

This is bad news for many, and it came too late for me as I recently added my wife as an AU on my Freedom card. Dang!

I came across a whimsical website, whose aim is to list and describe what holiday every day of the year is. The website’s name is “Every Day is a Holiday.”

Happy National Chips and Dip Day!

For example, today is a holiday possibly created and promoted by the Frito-Lay Company…but who cares? It’s all good fun.

Every day is different, and the blogger (Carrie French) comes up with some captivating text and explanation for every holiday.

With Amex only granting one lifetime bonus for every type of credit card, it’s important to know what types you have had.

http://www.milevalue.com/how-to-get-a-list-of-your-previous-american-express-cards/

According to this blog post, you can ask via online chat and the rep will (slowly) type out the list for you.

In every advertisement for pizza, without exception, there is at least one scene in which one of the slices of pizza is removed from the rest. In the advertising industry, that is called the “cheese pull.”

 

The list of places to purchase Visa gift cards is getting shorter and shorter. These are handy for meeting minimum spend requirements for new credit cards and other manufactured-spend needs.

http://frequentmiler.boardingarea.com/2016/03/07/my-current-go-to-options-for-buying-visa-gift-cards/

Staples is one of the best remaining options.

Who knew that Amazon’s search function has a setting for finding discounted items?!

This article from SlickDeals tells how to use it:

http://slickdeals.net/article/news/how-to-find-the-biggest-discounts-on-amazon/

For example, do a search for coffee maker. Then append &pct-off=50-70 to the URL (near the top of the page) to find coffee makers that are discounted from 50 to 70%. The results are not prefect, but they are pretty good. Remarkable!

Chase Bank has new rules, coming in March and April, that will seriously disrupt the churning hobby.

This blog post gives best ideas for what churners should do.

http://www.milevalue.com/news-of-the-year-chase-fights-churners-with-strict-new-limits-for-credit-card-approvals/

Let’s hope this doesn’t spread to Citi and other credit card issuers.

It’s not travel related, but this morning I was reminded of a valuable price-monitoring website for those of us who buy a lot from Amazon. That website is http://CamelCamelCamel.com

If there is something you plan to purchase on Amazon, but do not need right away, just go to CamelCamelCamel and enter it, along with a target price. If Amazon’s price ever drops to or below your target, you will automatically receive an email notification.

This morning I received an email notifying me of a price drop on a Dymo labelmaker. Several weeks ago I entered a target price of $25, and last night Amazon dropped the price to $18.99 (with free Prime shipping). Here is this morning’s email:

I’m a big fan of CamelCamelCamel, and I love the price for the service — FREE!

Probably not, because Trump’s personal airplane is a Boeing 757, smaller than AF1. But that doesn’t mean that The Donald flies coach.

https://saverocity.com/taggingmiles/donald_trump_757/