Introduction Another day, another Barclays shutdown story. This is from a reader who used to MS on the card (when Buxx was alive,) but have mostly stopped for the past couple of months. Here are some data points: Both he and his wife’s cards were shut down He had Aviator Red. Wife had A+ and […]
Introduction A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about how Barclays shut down both my wife’s and my account. I had about $400 worth of Arrival+ points left in both of our accounts. Usually, you’ll want to contact the bank directly and ask to get a credit on those points, but I had read calling […]
Introduction What’s that saying? You’re not hitting it hard enough until you’ve been shut down. Well, it’s been no surprise that I hit my wife’s Arrival card HARD in 2015. To the tune of nearly 600,000 Arrival points aka $300K of spend, which averages $25K of monthly spend on a $15K CL. How my […]
Introduction I hate calling credit companies for retention offers just because it’s like a game of poker – I don’t want to close the card, but I need to sound convincing so they don’t call my bluff. Citi AA Platinum I’ve had this card going on 4 years now. I love it because this […]
Introduction Some of you may remember the bad news from July about the Barclays Arrival card changes whereby the card will only give a 5% rebate on redemptions instead of 10%. Here’s DoC’s recap of it and a quote: When these changes go into effect depend on when you applied for the card. Here are […]