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Pay Your Income Taxes with AmEx rewards points

admin — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:10:25 +0000

“Now you can actually use your points to offset the entire tax payment, if you have enough points for that,” Mona Hamouly, a spokesman for New York-based AmEx, said in a telephone interview.”
Complete Article Here…

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Up In The Air – TravelPro Sweepstakes – Enter to Win A Trip To Hollywood

admin — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:31:22 +0000

Travelpro Announces ‘Win a Trip to Hollywood Sweepstakes’ in Celebration of Paramount Pictures “Up in the Air” Movie starring George Clooney.

You can enter to win at http://www.travelproupintheair.com. Grand prize is:

Two Economy Class , round-trip tickets to Los Angeles from any major city in the continental United States
A three night stay at The Beverly Hilton, which has combined the excitement and entertainment of Hollywood with the prestige of Beverly Hills for 50 years
Two Travelpro Expandable Rollaboard suitcases
Two Hollywood tour packages

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Managing Reward Points and Miles, for FREE!!

admin — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:18:24 +0000

San Diego Airport Examiner Joel Siegfried recently wrote and article describing the best way to keep track of your frequent flyer miles.

An innovative, secure, free web service lets travelers track their frequent flyer miles. It also does much more.

Why keep track of your miles? Because they may expire without you knowing. You wouldn’t throw away and airline ticket which is exactly what you are doing if you let your reward points and miles expire. Read Joel’s article in its entirety here…

Track Reward Points and Miles, for FREE!

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You May Be Loosing Your Reward Points And Not Even Know It!

admin — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:39:03 +0000

As airlines and reward programs change their policies you could loose your miles, points and rewards without even knowing. Keeping track of expiration dates and making sure there is some activity on your reward accounts is critical. Wall Street Journal recently posted a very detailed explanation of why this happens and how to prevent it.

There are an estimated 10 trillion unused frequent-flier miles in circulation now, worth some $165 billion. Most airlines won’t say how many will expire without being used, but a few clues suggest a big number: 20% or more of all frequent-flier miles may never be redeemed—in part because of confusing airline policies and scant notice of approaching expirations.

Read the WSJ Article here…

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Get Inside the Mind of the Mileage Junkie

admin — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:27:52 +0000

This is a killer 20 minute documentary exploring a giant sub-economy made up of Frequent Flyer miles and the obsession to collect them. A timely video due to the release of “Up In The Air” starring George Clooney, Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick. Meet the real people dipicted by George Clooney’s character in Frequent Flyer by Gabriel Leigh.

Frequent Flyer from Gabriel Leigh on Vimeo.

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Starbucks Rewards Card, Free Wi-Fi and Free Refills

admin — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:31:50 +0000

This is easy. Join Starbucks Card Rewards and you can get some pretty decent travel perks.

Free syrup and milk options for your beverage.
Free brewed coffee refills (hot or iced).
Free Tall (12 fl oz) beverage with your 1 lb whole bean purchase.
Up to two hours free AT&T Wi-Fi per day.

http://www.starbucks.com/CardRewards/

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Keeping track of your frequent-flier miles, perk or pain?

admin — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:42:50 +0000

On average a person belongs to 6 reward programs. Keeping track of these can become more of a pain than a reward. LA Times’ Jen Leo has an answer.

And don’t worry about telling AwardWallet when your miles will expire. It does that for you and e-mails you a reminder before those miles go to waste.

Best Way to Rewards and Miles

admin — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:20:11 +0000

On average we belong to 6 reward programs. This can be everything from credit card reward programs, airline frequent flyer programs, hotel, the list goes on. Keeping track of these can be a real pain. Scott Wilson from the LA Times recently reviewed a handful of tools that can help user track their reward points and miles.

I recently tried out six online services that offer to track your frequent-flier miles for you. I wanted one that would show all my family’s miles, plus the expiration dates (it’s no use accumulating miles only to see them suddenly disappear). Ideally, all the information should be on one page. And if I could get it all free, all the better.

Read the full article at the LA Times web site.

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