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Marriott Devaluation Coming March 26th
Marriott has published their list of hotels that are changing categories or tiers in 2016. The category or tier determines how many points are required for free nights. I’m calling this a devaluation since most of the changes are in the wrong direction, making lots of hotels more expensive. DoC has crunched the numbers. A total of 797…
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2016 SPG Category Changes Taking Effect March 1st
Starwood’s annual Category changes will take effect on March 1, 2016. A substantial number of their properties, 282 hotels, are changing categories. That’s about a quarter of the SPG lineup. As expected, this means that SPG hotels are getting more expensive, but not all of them. 168 hotels are moving up the category chasin and 114 hotels are going down.…
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Credit Card Funding No Longer Available For CitiGold
Citi has some great offers for their CitiGold Checking account such at these recent ones that offered 40K TYP or 50K AA miles. What made these offers even greater was the ability to fund these accounts with a credit card up to $100,000. This is almost like a second signup bonus for most people with a…
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What Happens When Amazon Loses Your Items?
Selling stuff on Amazon is usually straight forward, until problems arise. I had one of these problems recently, where Amazon lost my items. Well let me go back a bit, before getting into the lost items part. I’ve mentioned that I’m not a expert Amazon seller, but I’ve been doing fine so far. Well I…
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Selling On Amazon? Watch Out For Scammers
I do a little bit of selling on Amazon, mostly laptops, iPads and few other items that I might find that looks like a good deal. I use Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) to sell my items. That means that you ship your products to Amazon’s fulfillment centers, and they store it until it sells and then they pack, ship, and…
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Visa Rebate Cards From Staples Now With PIN
Staples usually runs week-long promos offering rebates on Visa/Mastercard gift card purchases. You submit your rebate at Staples Easy Rebates website and you receive either a Staples Gift Card or a Staples Visa Prepaid Card. It’s usually $20 and sometimes $15. Staples Gift Cards can only be used at Staples (or you can sell them),…
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High End IHG Properties Getting More Expensive
Changes are coming to IHG Rewards. Point redemption amounts for Reward Nights at approximately 400 hotels will change, starting February 17, 2016. There’s a few hotels where redemption amounts will change 5,000-10,000 points with some increasing, and others decreasing. This is bad news for most and good news for few others. Most increases are coming for the high end hotels with top…
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Hilton Targeting Millenials With New “Tru” Hotel Brand
Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. is entering the fast-growing midscale hotel category with a new chain called Tru that’s aimed at attracting younger, tech-savvy travelers with large lobbies, digital check-in and rooms for less than $100 a night. From what they’re showing, these new Tru hotels look nice with amenities that will attract millennials. The decor however…
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Up To 50% Off At Closing Walmarts
Walmart announced about a week ago that it will close 154 locations in the U.S., including the company’s 102 smallest format stores, Walmart Express, which had been in pilot since 2011. More than 95 percent of the closed stores in the U.S. are within 10 miles on average of another Walmart. As per Walmart spokesman Brian Nick,…
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One Year Of Deals From Danny the Deal Guru
WordPress reminded me today that I started the blog exactly one year ago. It has evolved a lot over the course of the year, especially when looking at posts from January 2015. I apologize to whoever happened to read them. Since then, I hope I have posted valuable information that has helped you make money, save money…
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Chime Prepaid Card Becomes A Full Featured Chime Deposit Account
Chime card is a prepaid/reloadable Visa debit card that’s very similar to Amex Serve/Bluebird. With a Chime card, you get shopping deals for cash back or store credit when you shop at Chime’s partner merchants with no coupons required. The deals have not been very good so far, except for a few rare ones. Now,…
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MORPHotel, A Futuristic Vision On Cruising
London architect Gianluca Santosuosso’s floating hotel concept, MORPHotel, looks more like an invading alien creature than a conventional hotel. ‘MORPHotel’ is a floating ecosystem developed with a linear, spinal structure composed of individually connected capsules hosting rooms and luxury facilities. It will change shape based on the ocean currents.
