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Re: Dumb mistakes we make playing these games.
« Reply #980 on: January 04, 2018, 07:38:37 PM »
Don't understand the story exactly. But you may be able to get them to give you back the 50%. Are the 2 plats under the same mr account?
No. Booked with DW's plat thinking it had until the end of December, but it really ended in mid December. My plat on the other hand has a few more months.

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Re: Dumb mistakes we make playing these games.
« Reply #981 on: January 04, 2018, 09:17:14 PM »
Forgot about it till the last minute, and purchased $550 worth of $50 delta gift cards on Dec 31. All the charges posted on the 1st.
You sure that doesn't count for 2017? Aren't there mixed DP's?
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Re: Dumb mistakes we make playing these games.
« Reply #982 on: January 07, 2018, 02:00:04 AM »
OfficeMax cashier told me last week that GC sales don't count towards the store revenues for bonus calculation and that they make no profit on the sales.

Perhaps a case of dnropr, but doesn't sound unreasonable to me.
Yet they still pay out up to $16 a year in rewards. https://www.officedepot.com/a/content/loyalty/rewardsfaq/?cm_sp=my-rewards-_-rewards-page-_-faq&cm_sp=marketing-_-faqs__my-rewards-faqs-_-#faq5

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Re: Dumb mistakes we make playing these games.
« Reply #983 on: January 07, 2018, 06:01:34 PM »
Forgot about it till the last minute, and purchased $550 worth of $50 delta gift cards on Dec 31. All the charges posted on the 1st.
Did the same thing. Used the online chat to talk to them and told them it was made on the 31st they said it would be counted towards 2017 and not 2018

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Re: Dumb mistakes we make playing these games.
« Reply #984 on: January 07, 2018, 06:02:00 PM »
Did the same thing. Used the online chat to talk to them and told them it was made on the 31st they said it would be counted towards 2017 and not 2018
Ty. Will try that

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Re: Dumb mistakes we make playing these games.
« Reply #985 on: January 08, 2018, 02:50:06 PM »
Paid a CC bill 5k instead of another one, had to quickly MS 5k to pay the other.
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Re: Dumb mistakes we make playing these games.
« Reply #986 on: January 09, 2018, 02:35:41 AM »
Paid a CC bill 5k instead of another one, had to quickly MS 5k to pay the other.
Did this a while back.
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Re: Dumb mistakes we make playing these games.
« Reply #987 on: March 10, 2018, 11:40:02 PM »
Linked my CC to BP Gas rewards, and ended up paying with miles for my gas!

The prompts on the tiny screen at the gas pumps are very unintelligible.

BEWARE!!
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Re: Dumb mistakes we make playing these games.
« Reply #988 on: March 15, 2018, 09:08:32 AM »
Paid my Discover early up until $1.99, then a $50 referral bonus posted.
Could have been worse.
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Re: Dumb mistakes we make playing these games.
« Reply #989 on: March 15, 2018, 02:40:46 PM »
Paid my Discover early up until $1.99, then a $50 referral bonus posted.
Could have been worse.

reading this post  :P

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Re: Dumb mistakes we make playing these games.
« Reply #990 on: March 18, 2018, 12:10:21 AM »
Paid my Discover early up until $1.99, then a $50 referral bonus posted.
Could have been worse.
BTW it works up to $2.99

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Re: Dumb mistakes we make playing these games.
« Reply #991 on: March 18, 2018, 12:11:31 AM »
BTW it works up to $2.99
With Discover? I thought they were only $1.99?
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Re: Dumb mistakes we make playing these games.
« Reply #992 on: March 18, 2018, 12:35:43 AM »
With Discover? I thought they were only $1.99?
What are you talking about?

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Re: Dumb mistakes we make playing these games.
« Reply #993 on: March 18, 2018, 12:42:01 AM »
What are you talking about?
They credit you back if you close your statement with a low amount.
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Re: Dumb mistakes we make playing these games.
« Reply #994 on: March 18, 2018, 10:07:57 AM »
With Discover? I thought they were only $1.99?
I had above $2.00 last statement and it was credited.

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Re: Dumb mistakes we make playing these games.
« Reply #995 on: March 18, 2018, 12:00:01 PM »
I had above $2.00 last statement and it was credited.
It was discussed in the credit score thread. I believe it was $2.99
ETA: I believe the below post was was somewhat related, but I remember seeing more on it. @PillanSmye should be able to clarify.

You want a SINGLE card to be reporting a $2 balance on your credit reports at all times.  Doesn't matter if it is the same card every month.

You do NOT want to use a Chase card, because when you PIF Chase they will force a mid-cycle update to the CRA's (one of Chase's most awesome features IMO, just doesn't help for the FICO geeking method).

You do NOT want to use a Disco card and leave $3, because then you are giving up the $24 Disco pays you every year to have their card.  Always leave $2 on your Disco card before the statement cuts, so Disco will write it off and report a $0 balance.
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Re: Dumb mistakes we make playing these games.
« Reply #996 on: March 18, 2018, 05:45:08 PM »
cancelled my citi prestige card by secure message before taking out over 7k points. now i gotta try to fight to get them transferred to another account...

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Re: Dumb mistakes we make playing these games.
« Reply #997 on: March 18, 2018, 05:46:37 PM »
cancelled my citi prestige card by secure message before taking out over 7k points. now i gotta try to fight to get them transferred to another account...
Why not just reopen the card?
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Re: Dumb mistakes we make playing these games.
« Reply #998 on: March 20, 2018, 06:17:30 PM »
So here’s a story about a dumb mistake I made. Has a happy ending though .
So , my first cc was a FU, of course since it’s billed as a cashback card I made the mistake that probably a lot of noobs make...I redeemed 32k for cash back anyway life moved on and I discovered ddf of course I was very disappointed for being duped like that....
Anyway last week I decided on a whim to call up chase: can I pretty please have those points back ?
I got a good rep , with a bad English and asked nicely that I want those points for travel , can she reverse the transaction?
She had a few questions for me a. When am I gonna use the points if she gives it back b. On which airline c. Do I also want her to transfer the points from csp to the fu or do I have enough for my ticket 🤨🤨(I told her no, thank you very much)
Anyway she said she’s sending the request to support and I should expect an answer in 10-14 days... she was very nice and apologizing the whole time, and had no clue about ur
I waited with bated breath , and yesterday finally I saw YES they were back!!! (They did debit my acct for $320)
So cheers 🥂 here’s to 32k ur !!!

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Re: Dumb mistakes we make playing these games.
« Reply #999 on: March 20, 2018, 06:31:45 PM »
So here’s a story about a dumb mistake I made. Has a happy ending though .
So , my first cc was a FU, of course since it’s billed as a cashback card I made the mistake that probably a lot of noobs make...I redeemed 32k for cash back anyway life moved on and I discovered ddf of course I was very disappointed for being duped like that....
Anyway last week I decided on a whim to call up chase: can I pretty please have those points back ?
I got a good rep , with a bad English and asked nicely that I want those points for travel , can she reverse the transaction?
She had a few questions for me a. When am I gonna use the points if she gives it back b. On which airline c. Do I also want her to transfer the points from csp to the fu or do I have enough for my ticket 🤨🤨(I told her no, thank you very much)
Anyway she said she’s sending the request to support and I should expect an answer in 10-14 days... she was very nice and apologizing the whole time, and had no clue about ur
I waited with bated breath , and yesterday finally I saw YES they were back!!! (They did debit my acct for $320)
So cheers 🥂 here’s to 32k ur !!!
Congrats, well done.
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