News and notes from around the interweb:
- Some reports of Barclaycard signing up consumers who ask for a targeted spending bonus on the US Airways Premier World MasterCard.
- 10,000 bonus Qantas points for new members who earn 10,000 points in their first 3 months of membership.
- United has a 20% bonus for transferring hotel points to miles. Conceivably a decent deal when redeeming Marriott travel packages, but hard to see myself taking advantage of this offer.
- My offer for IHG Rewards’ “Into the Nights” promotion — the most generous hotel offer in the market by far — has not changed. But others are reporting that the requirements for them to earn free nights are shifting after the promotion is underway. I’ve reached out to IHG to see whether there’s some sort of technical glitch, or something more nefarious going on.
- You can join the 40,000+ people who see these deals and analysis every day — sign up to receive posts by email (just one e-mail per day) or subscribe to the RSS feed. It’s free. You can also follow me on Twitter for the latest deals. Don’t miss out!
My IHG offer changed from Book 1 Stay using the app to Book 14 Stays using the app. Clearly that’s not reasonable or realistic (my offer reflected my relatively low usage of IHG properties over the last year) so it means one of two things:
— Some kind of technical issue (albeit one that looks oddly intentional)
— An attempt by IHG to essentially cancel the promotion without saying “hey, we’re canceling the promotion”.
In any event, I can’t imagine that it’s reasonable or legal to do this after people have already made purchases under the existing terms. Fortunately (or perhaps unfortunately if they decide to honor the previous terms only for those who’ve made purchases) I have so far only done the survey.
My wife’s offer was pretty easy to achieve, and we had already completed 4 of the five offers needed to get the 2 free nights. However as I was logging in see if our stays had posted I noticed one requirement had changed. The “Book A Stay” with the IHG app changed to “Book 8 Stays” I’m interested to hear how they respond to your inquiry Gary. I have screen shots from the day we signed up for the promo and again after the change.
No dice on US Air card promo. They wanted a fax of the offer letter
My IHG promotion added having to visit hotels in 4 different countries. Right as all my travel concentrates on 2 countries. Also increased number of reservations that need to be done in the app. Went from 1 to 2 and then to 3. Yay.
My IHG promotion included 250 points for a download and login to the app. I did this several weeks ago in September when the promotion first came out. Today, this still does not appear on the tracker (still says “0 of 5 offers complete). Response to my email inquiry from IHG said that tracker would update in 7-10 business days and 2-3 weeks for bonus points to appear in account. Points haven’t shown up yet either. I am hesitant to complete the other 4 offers if they won’t register to my account. Any advice?