Tips, Tricks, and Travel with Lucky

Signed up for a Hilton AMEX a few days ago!

I wasn’t originally going to post about this, but since View from the Wing blogged about the new 62,500 point Hilton credit card this morning, I might as well. I’ve long been contemplating getting the HH credit card, but the most recent offer pushed me over the edge, so I pulled the trigger early this week.
Basically [...]

Posted on October 4th, 2008 by lucky
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Credit card tips from an expert

My friend Rick, who writes the Frugal Travel Guy blog, has been working on a “series” over the past week that has helped me a lot, and I think could benefit others as well. One of my weaknesses when it comes to maximizing mileage is playing the whole credit card game, and Rick is an [...]

Posted on August 14th, 2008 by lucky
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Interesting offer from the US Mint

Here’s a very interesting offer. The US Mint is releasing special presidential dollar coins, and offering free shipping in order to increase circulation. You can order up to $500 worth of each president, and it seems like four presidents will be released each year. While it’s not a ton of miles, it’s a pretty good amount for doing [...]

Posted on June 12th, 2008 by lucky
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Follow up regarding retention bonus…

As promised, here’s the result of my dad’s experience which I blogged about this past Wednesday. He called Citi Amex to cancel his American Airlines card since he has three types of AA cards right now (between business and personal), but was open to keeping it longer if they offered some type of bonus.
So when he [...]

Posted on March 15th, 2008 by lucky
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Playing the Credit Card Game

Lately I’ve been getting more and more into the credit card game, and I have to say it’s pretty addictive. My parents kept insisting on not getting any new credit cards as they feel it’ll hurt their credit score, but I managed to convince my dad to sign up for two AAdvantage credit cards (one [...]

Posted on March 12th, 2008 by lucky
Filed under: Credit Cards | 3 Comments »