Yesterday night I was a little bit bored and my twitter feed was filled with stories from the TPG awards. I thought it would be fun to put something similar but different together, so I created the first annual DoC awards. Think of DoC awards as the Razzies (Golden Raspberry Awards) but for points & miles. I’ll just be embedding the tweets because I’m lazy, keep in mind some of the tweets contain bad language.
Worst credit card application rule is always a hotly contested category and this year we are proud to announce that @Chase has won after expanding the 5/24 rule to co-branded cards. https://t.co/uCty75U67W
— Doctor Of Credit (@Drofcredit) December 5, 2018
Worst new credit card goes to the Barclays Arrival Premier. Fantastic work by the team at Barclays to make a card’s value proposition so difficult to understand and then not offer a sign up bonus. https://t.co/ldyiXW63dW
— Doctor Of Credit (@Drofcredit) December 5, 2018
Biggest fuck up of the year goes to whoever made the American Express Amazon 20% off promotion work twice within a day. Very rare not to see Citi take this category out with their general level of IT incompetence.
— Doctor Of Credit (@Drofcredit) December 5, 2018
Worst merger & acquisition goes to Marriott & SPG. Just when you think things couldn’t have gotten any worse it was revealed that 500 million people had their data breached. https://t.co/BOnwjpcKMa
— Doctor Of Credit (@Drofcredit) December 5, 2018
Worst credit card perk goes to TSA PreCheck. Is it even a perk when you have it on 15 different cards already?
— Doctor Of Credit (@Drofcredit) December 5, 2018
Readers choice awards, worst airline loyalty program of 2018.
— Doctor Of Credit (@Drofcredit) December 5, 2018
Worst premium card of 2018 goes to U.S. Bank Korean SkyPass, I bet you forgot this piece of garbage even exists didn’t you? https://t.co/54HwBTZxvJ
— Doctor Of Credit (@Drofcredit) December 5, 2018
I’ve had a lot of backlash regarding my Delta joke, with several readers sending me their itineraries of recent award trips.
Super awesome. Thanks so much for the laughs. Worst airline loyalty program was the absolute best!
LMAO, was looking for award availability on Delta yesterday and got totally disgusted. Two thumbs up on your post.
I got a chuckle out of the Delta joke.
You’re forgetting the worst ULCC fees. I just read on FT that Amex theoretically supports Spirit as one of the airlines with which you can get “incidental” credit (on cards such as Gold, Platinum, and Hilton Aspire), but that trying to do so incurs a ridiculous charge from Spirit that negates the value of the credit!
Well done! Waiting for the Marriott-Hilton merger and the ensuing Harriet/Milton debate…
I very strongly disagree with TSA Pre check and with Delta and here is why:
Recently we decided to apply for Global Entry/TSA Pre Check and we realized that luckily we have just about two cards combined that offer the $100 credit (IHG Premier and SPG Luxury) so yeah its not on every card and we definitely don’t have it on 15 different cards already even though we have around 100 cards combined.
And with Delta, not only is Delta our favorite airline but they have great redemptions as well, sometimes its hard to find and inconsistent but they are much much better then AA and United, not gonna mention all the great redemptions we had with them but here is an example you could check for yourself right now! Type into Delta EWR to CUN (Newark to Cancun) for April 20th 2019, you will see some flights are priced $1,128.21 but with miles only 18K +$31.91, that’s a redemption of over 6cpp.
You wanna make fun of an airline award chart? How about Hawaiian airlines? they never have a 35K JFK-HNL but they advertise so and first class to HNL? 260K…!!!
Please not with Delta, Love you DOC.
Just noticed Delta won the best US loyalty program at TPG.
This is great!! TPG is pure and utter trash. Thankfully we have DoC!
I didnt lnow Doc has tweets ðŸ¤
Are they like headlines of posts or other stuff?
Usually just headlines, but sometimes we post some smaller deals/ask for datapoints etc
First Annual is not a thing.
Sure it is
“An event cannot be described as annual until it has been held in at least two successive years. Do not use the term first annual. Instead, note that sponsors plan to hold an event annually.” — AP Stylebook
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love it hahaha