Travel

Important thing to remember about cc points is to not accumulate for the sake of accumulating. It’s a waste if they’re not helping you book airline and hotel stays you’d book anyway

Lot of points blogs aim to sell you the dream when sometimes you just need to book trips in peak season b/c your kids are in school

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It was at least a reminder to me that I know what I need of my points and it’s to take a load off when booking flights to Asia during peak travel. Can’t get too idealistic

good reminder, I’m such a points hoarder 🫣

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Lot of the time this is true. I probably spend too much brain power assessing the relative “worth” of the point redemptions before deciding on how I want to book my travel

I also find, basically every time, that my points are more expensive then going direct. I don't really know what to do with this since it still feels like you are booking for free when using points (though in reality you pre-paid).

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We should be able to convert our points to crypto. Are you listening airlines/hotels???  Someone here will make a biz out of this.

I am still sitting on way too many points

💯. And I am guilty of this. Will try to use up some.

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In some parts of asia you can see them sell you credit cards at shopping malls. Those are worth sometimes $50 a customer (ok, the amount may vary to local rates but this is how it’s funded). 

So, there’s demand to get customers and a lead generation fee. Just that in the US, it’s pretty sorted via blogs, forums, etc. 

Affiliate marketing / lead gen is huge business (a lot of crypto people from the early days may have also been affiliate marketing folk)

Ya I remember learning about Red Ventures own the points guy. Even Nerd wallet started with the premise of selling us travel and points back credit cards

It’s all affiliate marketing for points blogs. That’s the key.