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NEW ARTICLE: The Credit Card Obsessives Who Game the System—and Share Their Secr
« on: April 01, 2015, 03:53:19 PM »
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Re: NEW ARTICLE: The Credit Card Obsessives Who Game the System—and Share Their Secr
« Reply #1 on: April 01, 2015, 03:55:09 PM »
Two other threads you could have posted this in instead of making a new thread.

http://forums.dansdeals.com/index.php?topic=13937.0
http://forums.dansdeals.com/index.php?topic=12784.0
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Re: NEW ARTICLE: The Credit Card Obsessives Who Game the System
« Reply #2 on: April 01, 2015, 04:00:37 PM »
He talks a lot about Dan so it must be ethical. Our leader would never do us wrong.
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Re: NEW ARTICLE: The Credit Card Obsessives Who Game the System
« Reply #3 on: April 01, 2015, 04:03:51 PM »
Quote from: ChaimMoskowitz on April 01, 2015, 04:00:37 PM
He talks a lot about Rabbi Dan so it must be ethical. Our leader would never do us wrong.
FTFY
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Re: NEW ARTICLE: The Credit Card Obsessives Who Game the System
« Reply #4 on: April 01, 2015, 04:04:11 PM »
Quote from: ChaimMoskowitz on April 01, 2015, 04:00:37 PM
He talks a lot about Dan so it must be ethical. Our leader would never do us wrong.

He? Its a girl if you are referring to the author of the article.
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Re: NEW ARTICLE: The Credit Card Obsessives Who Game the System—and Share Their Secr
« Reply #5 on: April 01, 2015, 04:16:41 PM »
From the article
"His wife thinks he’s crazy, he admits, and has threatened to start a support group called "Dan’s Deals Wives,"

If anyone can get in touch with her, my wife is interested in joining
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Re: NEW ARTICLE: The Credit Card Obsessives Who Game the System—and Share Their Secr
« Reply #6 on: April 01, 2015, 04:18:57 PM »
Quote from: Emkay on April 01, 2015, 04:16:41 PM
From the article
"His wife thinks he’s crazy, he admits, and has threatened to start a support group called "Dan’s Deals Wives,"

If anyone can get in touch with her, my wife is interested in joining

+1  :P
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Re: NEW ARTICLE: The Credit Card Obsessives Who Game the System—and Share Their Secr
« Reply #7 on: April 01, 2015, 04:21:16 PM »
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Re: NEW ARTICLE: The Credit Card Obsessives Who Game the System—and Share Their Secr
« Reply #8 on: April 01, 2015, 04:21:45 PM »
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Re: NEW ARTICLE: The Credit Card Obsessives Who Game the System
« Reply #9 on: April 01, 2015, 04:25:11 PM »
Quote from: benjie1305 on April 01, 2015, 04:04:11 PM
He? Its a girl if you are referring to the author of the article.
Sorry about that. A cutie to top it off.
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Re: NEW ARTICLE: The Credit Card Obsessives Who Game the System—and Share Their Secr
« Reply #10 on: April 01, 2015, 04:25:20 PM »
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Re: NEW ARTICLE: The Credit Card Obsessives Who Game the System—and Share Their Secr
« Reply #11 on: April 01, 2015, 04:31:57 PM »
Quote from: benjie1305 on April 01, 2015, 04:04:11 PM
He? Its a girl if you are referring to the author of the article.
When the author wrote this

" As Emily Jablon, who runs the blog Million Mile Secrets with her husband Daraius Dubash, puts it"

Putting the blame for arrows and circles on her, then I realized that a female wrote it
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Re: NEW ARTICLE: The Credit Card Obsessives Who Game the System—and Share Their Secr
« Reply #12 on: April 01, 2015, 04:49:33 PM »
Wait a second -- where did she question the ethics of this industry??
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Re: NEW ARTICLE: The Credit Card Obsessives Who Game the System—and Share Their Secr
« Reply #13 on: April 01, 2015, 04:55:08 PM »
"says Bobby Finken, a commercial lender living in Texas who has over one hundred credit cards to his name. "I’ve probably collected over a million points and it’s taken my wife, three kids, and I on vacations every single year."

100 CC and only 1Mil points?!?! ???
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Re: NEW ARTICLE: The Credit Card Obsessives Who Game the System—and Share Their Secr
« Reply #14 on: April 01, 2015, 05:14:55 PM »
Quote from: coralsnake on April 01, 2015, 04:55:08 PM
"says Bobby Finken, a commercial lender living in Texas who has over one hundred credit cards to his name. "I’ve probably collected over a million points and it’s taken my wife, three kids, and I on vacations every single year."

100 CC and only 1Mil points?!?! ???
90 of them are au's :P
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Re: NEW ARTICLE: The Credit Card Obsessives Who Game the System—and Share Their Secr
« Reply #15 on: April 01, 2015, 05:54:49 PM »
Quote from: TimT on April 01, 2015, 05:14:55 PM
90 of them are au's :P

If 90 of them were au's then he could take them on vacation with the SBS savings alone.
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