- A list of Citibank rewards credit cards: which ones are worth applying for? by PFdigest. Nice little recap on each of the cards Citibank offers and which ones are worth applying for (as well as which ones are worth keeping long term). I wish they would increase the sign up bonus on the Expedia credit cards.
- Check Your Bank Of America Card For An BankAmeriDeal by Chasing The Points. Glad to see another decent AmeriDeal. I’m waiting for the portal bonuses to increase before pulling the trigger myself.
- Airbnb by the Numbers: Q1 Update by Out And Out. Always find these sort of posts extremely interesting.
- Two days of manufactured spend revenge by Frequent Miler. I really don’t understand why companies run deceitful promotions when they are looking for long term customers. If you trick me into a deal that isn’t honored, do you really think I’m going to continue to use your service (hint: I’m not!). People often say that Lfyt is the more honest version of Uber, but I think they are as both as deceitful as each other – Lyft is just smaller.
- Cash Is for Losers! by Bloomberg via reddit.com user hockey6611. My favorite quote (emphasis mine):
After some frantic reengineering, Venmo announced that users who linked their Venmo payments to their bank accounts or debit cards could continue making Venmo payments for free. Those who continued to rely on their credit cards, however, would have to cover the transaction fees. “When we did that, all our amazing growth plummeted,” Magdon-Ismail said. “We had meeting after meeting, trying to decide what we were going to do next. It was almost as if, we thought, people were just using Venmo because they wanted to get free credit card points.”
I really worry about that company if it took meeting after meeting to work that out.
