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April 16
This is not really travel related but is such a good deal I had to post it and just ordered a ton Delta Points business cards for the cost of the Groupon & just the S&H at VistaPrint.
- Step one is join Big Crumbs if you have not yet (my link btw)
- Step two search for VistaPrint at Big Crumbs
- Step three is look for the $17 for $70 Worth of Custom-Printing Services from Vistaprint.
- Step four buy the deal
- Step five when you get the coupon go to: www.vistaprint.com/groupon-70
Order what ever you want up to $70 (or more if you want) and you will get $70 off the price!
EDIT: Time for some arrows – how to find deal!
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September 19
With a HT to CokeandTaco from Flyer Talk, the KING of mileage run deals, there is a chance to visit Singapore next week for a few days for just $500-$700 from a bunch of places in the USA. Play around with Matrix search from your nearest airport and see if this can work for you. If you need some MQM’s to get to whatever medallion level for next year, this a nice way to get as much as 20,000+ MQM’s in just one trip!
I did send out a text alert about this deal this morning; if you did not get it, please re-mail me your info.
You can look at SPG hotels from 16,000 points per night and Priority Club ones from 25,000 points per night. I have never been to Singapore but HERE is a link to their tourist site. – René
PS – don’t forget to please VOTE for your pick for the
best new Delta “UP” slogan from readers.
The poll is in the top right hand part of the blog.
It is a tight race to see who wins!
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September 8
The one thing I love about computers is that there is always an answer. After almost 20 years of running my own computer shop (my real job when not blogging), I know I will at some point find the answer. It may take a while and the solution may not be what I thought it was, but some way I will find the answer!
This is where we are with the BETA testing of the TEXT ALERT service. I first went with e-Mail to cell from my DeltaPoints.com web server. There were some drawbacks. The biggest was that some times it took 24hrs to send the texts out. That was no good. The other was no GOOGLE voice texts. There are many who are for example serving in Afghanistan who would like to get these alerts and would like to use Google and my server just did not like them.
I now went to TextFreeOnline and paid for a month as in small scale testing this was super fast. I now have about 300 numbers in it and we have problems. Some got a bunch of texts yesterday and today some got none. OK so this one is not going to work – I see that clearly! Plus the interface just stinks on the website. Strike two!
I did try uploading the list to g-Mail to see how that would work. No joy – same as my web server. So what I am going to try next is sorta back to stage one where I use e-Mail from my Comcast account as Comcast does seem to be reliable. I have setup ALERTDELTAPOINTS@COMCAST.NET and will try to do the email to cell thing again. I will load in the numbers and do a test run and see. This would have the advantage of being free again.
If this is just as bad I have one more option I am considering that could work and would not cost me very much. I could add another line to my SPRINT plan and get software to “hook up” and use this extra phone. I would just leave that phone plugged into my computer as this is all it would be used for. If I try this I will advise the phone number you can expect a text from.
Anyway, I so thank you all for your patience while I “play” with this idea. I am sorry some have had to put up with so many texts some times but that is what happens during a BETA test group. I will make this work as intended, it just will take a little more time! – René
EDIT: Update – so far so good. I think the key for speed is breaking down the list to smaller groups. I may have to send in say 2 or 3 or 4 batches but only takes a few extra seconds to do that. Will advise. Also I have not yet put all the numbers in so if you did NOT get a text, just wait I will get to you I am at numbers starting at 707 now. Thanks for input!
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August 10
Look at the MATRIX chart above. There are lots of dates and you can pick either just ONE day as a mileage run or many days for a ski vacation this winter. If you live anywhere NEAR South Bend, Indiana (SBN) this could be a nice time to jump on this! (ORD or MDW are coming up $235 btw)
As a PURE mileage run it is not the BEST. In just one day you could go SBN-ATL-DEN-ATL-SBN and that will net you 3530 MQM at a cost of about 5.6 cents per MQM. For SBN that is a good MR price!
As a vacation to use your DELTA AMEX buy-one-get-one-free CERTS the price is very good for two. I have not booked this but look at the breakdown ALL-IN!
I always go to Utah each year as regular readers know, but I may just have to add in a quick trip to Denver as I have never skied there and for this kind of price – why not! – René
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