News and Notes from Around the Interweb:
- Back in October I explained how to get free Marriott silver status. It still works.
- Travelocity is offering $50 off a hotel booking of $150 or more when you download their mobile app.
- Anyone with a valid American Express card can get a free one-year membership to Shoprunner (or an extension of a free membership). That gets you free two-day shipping with a variety of merchants, and is generally stackable with mileage mall earning. (HT: Dan’s Deals)
- In March I wrote that American Express’ Bluebird 100 paper checks tied to your account for free. The last day to take advantage of this is Tuesday (tomorrow).
Does shoprunner work with Amazon?
The text number for the Travelocity promotion doesn’t seem to be Google Voice friendly for those of us without a US mobile phone number …
Can anyone suggest a workable alternative?
Thanks for mentioning the Bluebird checks again. I missed your post about it in March. I wasn’t doing much blog reading while I was in Russia. Ordered 100 checks for free. Nothing to lose!
Thanks Gary. I find these tidbits useful reminders.
@ Jana: No…that would be Amazon Prime.
Shoprunner is useful, it works for many of Amazon’s competitors. For me, Newegg, Brooks Brothers, Haggar, and Dominos are useful.
Seems the checkboook order fees are waived until 8/13/2013 now. Or so it says on the order page.
Thanks for the tip on shoprunner. Sadly, I hardly ever use it, and when I do it’s usually to get out of the domino’s pizza delivery charge. Useful to have, none the less, though.