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44 comments

Andrew Campbell September 21, 2022 - 11:46 pm

💳 love the channel have over 1 million points between my wife & I we need to use!

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Mr Gumbatron September 22, 2022 - 3:34 am

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Duy Nguyen September 22, 2022 - 3:53 am

I'd love to see a video on the redemption partners and how/when there are transfer bonuses 💳

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melvenorc12 September 22, 2022 - 4:57 am

Thank you! Love this type of content.

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Jonathan Rios September 22, 2022 - 12:25 pm

What if the flight isn't on Virgin when you want to book a flight? ANA Shows a flight from lax to Tokyo. But on Virgin it says no flight are available that day

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Saurabh Gupta September 22, 2022 - 1:05 pm

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Mini September 22, 2022 - 1:10 pm

In your part 2 can you talk about these fuel surcharges they try to impose when you book award flights 🙏 Was gonna transfer points to Virgin Atlantic to go to London (from NYC) and they’re wanting to charge me $250 surcharge !? Thought it’d be a good deal with the Amex-virgin promotion rn but I guess not ? Pls help!!

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John Burbano September 22, 2022 - 2:06 pm

💳!!

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Mikey Bee September 22, 2022 - 2:16 pm

the American Express Personal checking account (not just the business checking account) also allows you to cash out your points at 0.8 cpp !

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Michael Frock September 22, 2022 - 2:32 pm

My goal is save up for a flight and hotel in Maldives.

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Daniel Lee September 22, 2022 - 2:51 pm

need more tips and tricks for the GOLD!

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Dirtzman From yard September 22, 2022 - 4:48 pm

The Marriott bevy is here!!!!!!

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Dan September 22, 2022 - 4:51 pm

Thank you for getting right to it.

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Dane Alexander September 22, 2022 - 5:57 pm

Hey Seb! @13:27 you talk about ecom spending $100k a month with 4x MR card bonus – I thought the 4x points was on AMEX Gold only and capped at $400k per year spend on a platform (e.g. FB) can you let me know which card you are referring to here. Thanks

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BertiferousRex September 22, 2022 - 6:08 pm

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Jason A. September 22, 2022 - 6:23 pm

Please part 2

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Lei Jin September 22, 2022 - 9:16 pm

Great video, thanks Sebby! I was doing my own research and video saved me a lot of time! Please do the 2nd part, I am looking forward to it already!

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ALFREDO RAMIREZ September 22, 2022 - 9:33 pm

Hi Sebby any chance you can do a video on how to book using MR points from SFO to Europe Spain / France / London by transferring to airline partners ? 💳💳

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Ron B September 22, 2022 - 10:03 pm

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Jason Davis September 22, 2022 - 11:08 pm

Great video 💳

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Jacob Ha / A2Jacob September 23, 2022 - 12:05 am

I would want to see a part two sebby🙌🏼

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huda s September 23, 2022 - 2:04 am

I got targeted for the 125k bonus end of last year and now have 210k amex points. I wanted to transfer them out to virgin but it doesn't really make sense with the taxes being around $600-800 + 40k points for economy leaving from Detroit. I think I'll hold on to my points until I can use them for first on another carrier or use them for hotels

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Patience is Alpha September 23, 2022 - 2:40 am

As an Amex MR churning veteran, this video is insanely accurate. Great work.

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Temp September 23, 2022 - 3:25 am

Fantastic video, I feel like it takes a while to wrap your head around all the different options but this made it very clear why transfer partners have the biggest upside but also slightly misleading because you don’t always get the dates you want and there is a non-trivial amount of effort required to finesse your points through the system like this

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k1fizz September 23, 2022 - 3:38 am

If you transfer points to Virgin and book ANA, do you get to skip fuel surcharges? Also, how can you find reward flights for ANA on Virgins point redemption page? I don’t see any showing up.

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Amanda Young September 23, 2022 - 4:24 am

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matthew toback September 23, 2022 - 7:07 am

use schwab points for roth ira

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Travels with the Contessa September 23, 2022 - 7:38 am

I definitely feel as though transferring point to airline FF programs – especially with those transfer bonuses! – is the best way to maximize the value of those points. This last November, I managed to book a one-way flight from Florence to Washington DC (FLR-IAD) in Air France business class for 40,000 points because Flying Blue was offering an award booking special for that route at the same time that Amex was offering a 1-1.4 transfer bonus! That exact flight was selling for USD 3,000, so really felt as though I was making off like a Points Bandit! 😃

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D.C. September 23, 2022 - 8:32 am

💳💳💳 Love your content! Looking to do HNL to Vancouver or Japan in November. I’d love to see a pt2 on airline transfer partner redemptions. I have the Plat and Gold with a player 2 that has the same.

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Keith Thomas II September 23, 2022 - 12:46 pm

Please make a video about best value transfer partners. And the process of booking a flight. Me and the family are currently considering going to Tokyo.

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Eloy Rodríguez September 23, 2022 - 4:55 pm

💳 Can you do a tutorial of how to transfer points and when and how you know which transfer partners to pick

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Ly Sen September 23, 2022 - 5:34 pm

We need part 2 😂

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M C September 23, 2022 - 8:12 pm

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is there a way for canadians to enjoy some of these perks? after the welcome bonus, i find Platinum, Gold, and all these credit cards arent that great in giving us points.

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Peter Di Donato September 23, 2022 - 10:07 pm

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k31fan September 23, 2022 - 10:07 pm

You also have to watch out with these airlines and their miles or point. They can expire

Hawaiian does not😍

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Alex Johnson September 23, 2022 - 10:30 pm

Sorry. I still wasn’t clear if this video is referring to theAmex gold card or the Amex business gold card?

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James P September 24, 2022 - 2:31 am

I'm so not "team cashback." Anything less than 2% per point value is not interesting at all. I transfer to airlines and get an absolute minimum of 2%, and usually 3 or 4%. OTOH, International Business Class is not aspirational for me, it's a necessity – I'm 6' 4" and I literally do not fit in steerage. My thigh bone > seat pitch, and as we may recall from high-school anatomy, the femur doesn't bend lol. So it's Business or nothing.

I usually travel to Europe, mostly to Paris, once or twice per year. The flight is usually $4,300 – $4,800. My next flight was $4,200 but cost me 135K points. And I got a 25% bonus transferring Amex points to Air France. Now THAT is interesting! (for me, anyway).
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L.A. Rivas, Esq. September 24, 2022 - 3:07 am

💳 I’m still earning points for international travel I plan to do in 2024. Thank you for producing this video because it was concise and informative.

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Pepe hands September 24, 2022 - 3:53 am

This is very helpful as I'm looking to take advantage of the transfer partner bonus AMEX is running this month.

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Young Alwyn September 24, 2022 - 1:31 pm

💳 Just imagine: in one example Sebby used, a cardholder was earning 4,000,000 MR points in a single year! 🤯

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Mario McBride September 24, 2022 - 2:57 pm

💳 thanks again Sebby, I'm with Amex but I get statement Credit. For people that on a fix income or limited their spending. Are always looking get some type of enjoyment in life. One day I will climb that ladder to upgrade to another Amex card.

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Amir Moradi September 24, 2022 - 3:08 pm

I've always been intrigued by the Morgan Stanley platinum just because of the possibility of having the af waived. But what's the opportunity cost by investing your money with their brokerage account versus somewhere else

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biggchinoxxl September 24, 2022 - 8:05 pm

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