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Re: Consumer Advocate Attacks Credit Card/Points Blogs
« Reply #100 on: February 05, 2015, 02:43:02 PM »
Like I said, I don't follow the Marriott program at all and I write about what I know.
Does 140K Marriott really become 70K UA?
To be honest, I haven't.
I call BS.
Everyone knows about it.
And if you spent 2,000$ for free fairmont suite nights
I'm sure $49 is worth ANY IhG property.
Everyone in the miles game knows how awesome that is.
we know you have to make a living.
But does every link on your site have to go to clicks.synergy?

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Re: Consumer Advocate Attacks Credit Card/Points Blogs
« Reply #101 on: February 05, 2015, 02:45:41 PM »
Link to where WA talked about finding additional award space with married segs?

It's great that there are blogs that do this in spare time and not as a job.    I'm sure it stays more fun that way.
I've read a few DoC posts that TBB has pointed out as amazing and most of them had mistakes that typical DDF'ers would know about.
I'd rather just write about programs and cards that I know proficiently and not a jack of all trades and master of none.

Can you point out some of Doc's mistakes I haven't seen anything that sticks out to me as false or wrong

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Re: Consumer Advocate Attacks Credit Card/Points Blogs
« Reply #102 on: February 05, 2015, 02:46:07 PM »
I call BS.
Everyone knows about it.
And if you spent 2,000$ for free fairmont suite nights
I'm sure $49 is worth ANY IhG property.
Everyone in the miles game knows how awesome that is.
we know you have to make a living.
But does every link on your site have to go to clicks.synergy?
Now we can add "liar" to the list of your accusations.

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Re: Consumer Advocate Attacks Credit Card/Points Blogs
« Reply #103 on: February 05, 2015, 02:46:30 PM »
I call BS.
Everyone knows about it.
And if you spent 2,000$ for free fairmont suite nights
I'm sure $49 is worth ANY IhG property.
Everyone in the miles game knows how awesome that is.
we know you have to make a living.
But does every link on your site have to go to clicks.synergy?

You are saying Dan has a card he said he doesn't?

$49 for rooms for life? Sign me up. Maybe that's a bad comparison.
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Re: Consumer Advocate Attacks Credit Card/Points Blogs
« Reply #104 on: February 05, 2015, 02:46:34 PM »
I call BS.
Everyone knows about it.
And if you spent 2,000$ for free fairmont suite nights
I'm sure $49 is worth ANY IhG property.
Everyone in the miles game knows how awesome that is.
we know you have to make a living.
But does every link on your site have to go to clicks.synergy?
I didn't spend anything for the Fairmont nights as I said here last week. So much for being a knowitall.

Yes, $49 is good for 1 night in IHG.  Though I can't tell you the last time I stayed in an IHG and capacity controls make the best hotels hard to get.
Like I said, I have gone through hundreds of Chase cards, but never IHG/Marriott/Ritz.
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Re: Consumer Advocate Attacks Credit Card/Points Blogs
« Reply #105 on: February 05, 2015, 02:47:30 PM »
My point was there's a lot if great deals that would help people out that aren't on DDMS cuz Dan is too selfish to put them up.
I get enough Twitter alerts as it is and if you want to be spoonfed every deal under the sun, theres plenty of other blogs for that.
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Re: Consumer Advocate Attacks Credit Card/Points Blogs
« Reply #106 on: February 05, 2015, 02:48:40 PM »
Can you point out some of Doc's mistakes I haven't seen anything that sticks out to me as false or wrong
I don't read him religiously.

The few posts I clicked on from TBB had errors in them. Usually when he's posting crowd-sourced info it seemed like.
Same goes for several TIF posts I clicked on from TBB.
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Re: Consumer Advocate Attacks Credit Card/Points Blogs
« Reply #107 on: February 05, 2015, 02:49:37 PM »
I think this thread should be renamed "DDF Attacks Dan"
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Re: Consumer Advocate Attacks Credit Card/Points Blogs
« Reply #108 on: February 05, 2015, 02:50:25 PM »
Like I said, I have gone through hundreds of Chase cards, but never IHG/Marriott/Ritz.
Curious - why not?
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Re: Consumer Advocate Attacks Credit Card/Points Blogs
« Reply #109 on: February 05, 2015, 02:51:12 PM »
Curious - why not?
I prefer other hotels and programs.  UA, BA, AA, SPG, HGP are my favorites.
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Re: Consumer Advocate Attacks Credit Card/Points Blogs
« Reply #110 on: February 05, 2015, 02:51:33 PM »
Curious - why not?
Im only curious how he stays in Marriott hotels, but if he doesnt want to disclose that, Im ok with that too.
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Re: Consumer Advocate Attacks Credit Card/Points Blogs
« Reply #111 on: February 05, 2015, 02:52:20 PM »
Im only curious how he stays in Marriott hotels, but if he doesnt want to disclose that, Im ok with that too.
I rarely do.  First time was probably on my Brazil trip last year.  Don't particularly care for them.
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Re: Consumer Advocate Attacks Credit Card/Points Blogs
« Reply #112 on: February 05, 2015, 02:52:32 PM »
I prefer other hotels and programs.  UA, BA, AA, SPG, HGP are my favorites.
Thanks
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Re: Consumer Advocate Attacks Credit Card/Points Blogs
« Reply #113 on: February 05, 2015, 02:52:45 PM »
I didn't spend anything for the Fairmont nights as I said here last week. So much for being a knowitall.

Yes, $49 is good for 1 night in IHG.  Though I can't tell you the last time I stayed in an IHG and capacity controls make the best hard to get.
Like I said, I have gone through hundreds of Chase cards, but never IHG/Marriott/Ritz.
Oh you got the fairmont for free cuz of..wait for it.. REFFERALS.
You didn't answer why it's not on the main site.
Why not tell us about it?
Many DDFers would love 10nights in a $100 marriott or 6 $100 holiday inn nights.
These are the best cards for a family going on vacation(also Spg)
So blog about it!
Why does everything have to be about refferals?

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Re: Consumer Advocate Attacks Credit Card/Points Blogs
« Reply #114 on: February 05, 2015, 02:54:23 PM »
Rather u get the card for yourself or not , doesn't mean it's not a great card for a regular small time traveler, (personally I like that those hotel cards didn't get more exposure) I definitely enjoy some of his informative articles on ddms and I appreciate the afford .i think you need to shop around to all bloggers to get best of every world

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Re: Consumer Advocate Attacks Credit Card/Points Blogs
« Reply #115 on: February 05, 2015, 02:55:41 PM »
Oh you got the fairmont for free cuz of..wait for it.. REFFERALS.
You didn't answer why it's not on the main site.
Why not tell us about it?
Many DDFers would love 10nights in a $100 marriott or 6 $100 holiday inn nights.
These are the best cards for a family going on vacation(also Spg)
So blog about it!
Why does everything have to be about refferals?
Everyone can read or do whatever they want.
My point was there's a lot if great deals that would help people out that aren't on DDMS cuz Dan is too selfish to put them up. I'm not saying he has to. I'm saying that bloggers that care about their readers are posting these. Bloggers that are after the money aren't.
And from all the eBay amazon living social and groupon garbage we see exactly what dan is after.
P.S. He's still the smartest and most knowledgable blogger IMO.

I love how you make running a business for profit as a bad thing and compare it to blogs that are not doing it as a business.

Once again I ask, what do you do for a living?

And what happened to that sweet note you emailed me a year ago, "Thanx for all your awesome deals! I can't say how much my family has gained from your site!"


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Re: Consumer Advocate Attacks Credit Card/Points Blogs
« Reply #116 on: February 05, 2015, 02:55:48 PM »
Srry guys for wrong words #apple

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« Reply #117 on: February 05, 2015, 02:57:05 PM »
Rather u get the card for yourself or not , doesn't mean it's not a great card for a regular small time traveler
Like I said earlier I write about cards that I get and that I'm familiar with.

Doesn't mean it's not great. That's what DDF is for-more perspectives.
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Re: Consumer Advocate Attacks Credit Card/Points Blogs
« Reply #118 on: February 05, 2015, 02:57:26 PM »
I love how you make running a business for profit as a bad thing and compare it to blogs that are not doing it as a business.

Once again I ask, what do you do for a living?

And what happened to that sweet note you emailed me a year ago, "Thanx for all your awesome deals! I can't say how much my family has gained from your site!"

+1000
There are plenty of other websites and everyone is welcome to use Google and find them

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Re: Consumer Advocate Attacks Credit Card/Points Blogs
« Reply #119 on: February 05, 2015, 02:58:53 PM »
@dan my first post today was that I have a lot of Hakaras hatov!