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Datapoint and update for purchasing Universal tickets using AA miles through AAVacations.com.

I used miles to purchase one night hotel stay at Portofino, three 2 park 2 day universal orlando tickets, plus a throw away rental car.

At booking I received a voucher via email for the rental car and hotel stay. I was told around 35 days from departure that I'd receive the universal tickets via a separate voucher.

Friday was 35 days out and I received a call asking to confirm our tickets. I had booked a room with 4 people but only purchased tickets for 3 (intentional). I thought that was a good practice that they called to confirm.

Today I received an email with the tickets. They each contain a unique bar code and a name. It says you can go straight to the gate and just show photo ID. I think we'll need to stop by the hotel first to activate the free express pass that comes with our hotel stay.
That’s great to hear. That is something I am thinking about using our AA points for too.
 
That garage door feature is something I have wanted for a long time. Maybe one of these days. We don't really want to mess with a new garage door opener now, way too much work.

My DH just installed this on our 3rd car garage door yesterday (the one my DS21 parks in) as he's bad about leaving it open. We have another one coming today for our main garage door. For some reason he could only order 1 from Amazon but WM had it for in store pickup for $2 more so we got that.
 


I am going to upgrade my Freedom to a CSR, I have some pending charges in the 5x categories. If I upgrade before these charges post, does anyone know if they will count towards the 5x?
Do you mean pending as in not the close of a statement or a pending charge?
Recently did CSP to CFU. Any charges already posted using the CSP credited as 1x and all charges after change credited as 1.5x. so if the charge has posted then it should credit. If it’s pending charge I’d wait a day till it posts then change.
 


I had Norwegian Elkhound when I was a kid. Unfortunately, not for very long, and I will skip the story, but he was so beautiful.

We kinda spent way more than intended this weekend, on stuff just for us LOL. We don't really have anyone else but our kids to buy for anyway. Got 4 20% coupons for Target for later, dh wanted a Bluetooth speaker, so we got one of those (and a coupon LOL0 for a measley $99. Geez! And a GoPro for Hawaii, with the Amex $60 back offer, and a Ring Doorbell and Camera, with the Amex $30 Best Buy offer, and those came with a free Echo Dot and Echo Show 5, so that's fun.
And movies, I swear I never watch half of them, but those cheap movie displays at Target get me every year!
Oh yeah, and some Pandora stuff for me :-)

I didn't get any of the Target 20% off coupons. Target lost me this year as every time I put something in my cart, the size disappeared or it wasn't available for pickup at my preferred store or all kinds of issues. Then, yesterday evening I got the 'your cart is waiting'.
 
FYI - Save $10 on $100+ Visa Gift Cards at Safeway, Albertsons, et al, until 12/7/19. Works on variable load cards, so buy $500 to maximize your credit card reward points.

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J4U coupon for $10 off $100 or more in VGCs. Expires 12/7. But don't wait to add it if you think you might use it, they sometimes drop off at the end of the ad week.

Also check your expirations on the 10x rewards on GCs (doesn't stack with the $10 off). My coupon doesn't expire until the 5th and matches my Acme ad. And the stackable promo is spend $125 or more in GC get a $20 coupon for next order. Seems like each store/chain may run different dates and promotions.
 
I didn't get any of the Target 20% off coupons. Target lost me this year as every time I put something in my cart, the size disappeared or it wasn't available for pickup at my preferred store or all kinds of issues. Then, yesterday evening I got the 'your cart is waiting'.
I’ve been having tons of issues with target too. I do see a changing table we’ve been wanting that goes on top of our dresser and it’s 15% off so we might buy that
 
@Haley R I watched Klaus last night on Netflix with dd and her boyfriend -- loved it!

Looks like we are stuck in Toronto today. Freezing rain / snow has descended upon the city and I changed our flights to tomorrow (still waiting for confirmation from Air Canada). Had to make the call or risk sitting at the airport for several hours and having the flight cancelled, then not being able to get seats out tomorrow. I HATE for dd to miss tomorrow at school, especially since she has bio, AP calc and AP physics tests this week, but had to make the call. I have been checking the Pearson airport website and nothing has departed for at least 2 hours.

I'm still waiting for our tickets because AC migrated their system 2 weeks ago and it has been an absolute nightmare (the girl today told me they don't expect things to be back to normal until March). The agent I was on the phone with said she wasn't able to ticket us (she was holding the seats) and had to call ticketing, which would be a 2 hour wait; she said that she would call me back, but over 2 hours later and still no call. Hoping we are on the flight tomorrow.
 
@Haley R I watched Klaus last night on Netflix with dd and her boyfriend -- loved it!

Looks like we are stuck in Toronto today. Freezing rain / snow has descended upon the city and I changed our flights to tomorrow (still waiting for confirmation from Air Canada). Had to make the call or risk sitting at the airport for several hours and having the flight cancelled, then not being able to get seats out tomorrow. I HATE for dd to miss tomorrow at school, especially since she has bio, AP calc and AP physics tests this week, but had to make the call. I have been checking the Pearson airport website and nothing has departed for at least 2 hours.

I'm still waiting for our tickets because AC migrated their system 2 weeks ago and it has been an absolute nightmare (the girl today told me they don't expect things to be back to normal until March). The agent I was on the phone with said she wasn't able to ticket us (she was holding the seats) and had to call ticketing, which would be a 2 hour wait; she said that she would call me back, but over 2 hours later and still no call. Hoping we are on the flight tomorrow.
Have you also reached out to AC via DM on Twitter to try to get them ticketed? No idea if they can help or not.
 
I bought this for my mom:

https://www.amazon.com/Chamberlain-MYQ-G0301-Garage-Delivery-Eligible/dp/B075H7Z5L8?th=1
She is all about the home automation now. It was $18 at the time and I will install it for her.
She'll love it. I have the MYQ on my garage door opener and its awesome. Very handy when you need to let someone in the house and you don't want to leave a key out. Plus, you can always check to make sure the door did in fact close, when your second guessing yourself on the way to work.

We don't have very many home automation devices in our house but I love MyQ and our Nest thermostat.

We've had MyQ for a few years and love it. I can't tell you how many times we had to call a neighbor asking them to check our garage (spoiler alert, it was always closed!).

The app works good and we have it set up to alert when either door is open more than 10 minutes.
 
I was able to buy alllll of the Christmas presents Wed/Thurs/Fri plus the Keurig Duo Plus and the nest wifi system for us. I really hit the Target buy 2 get 1 free book sale HARD haha I think the only 2 gifts I couldn’t find on sale were a small statue for a friend (which was only $9 anyway) and a shirt for my SIL called “Dogwarts” which was too funny to pass up. Otherwise even things I didn’t expect to get on sale I managed to find somewhere. I ended up placing 16 orders I believe (2 for dog food though) in order to maximize Kohls cash, cash back, shipping requirements, and BOGO deals. Could have done it all in 1 or 2 shots at the same store but I would have spent way more money! (Also all the orders minus Keurig/kohls order and dog food were under $20!)
 
You can always check the Flyertalk Amex retention offers thread for DPs of offers on various cards. I believe the Biz Plat has almost always had piddling offers unless you’re a big spender on that card. I know one guy who got a tiered 10k MR after spending $3k retention offer recently. He closed the card. Your other option is to downgrade the Biz Plat to the Biz Gold or Biz Green, but DH has never had either card before and PCing will make him ineligible for a new card SUB on the card he downgrades to.

Thanks for the reminder not to PC it down. We don't want to use up a SUB opportunity. I did check online before asking here and there were widely varying DPs on this one, but I did see some $3k/20K MR posts. I wasn't sure if they were hard to get though, or if DH's constantly asking for retention offers would somehow make AMEX flag his account. I guess he'll just have to call them. (eek!) He did call yesterday to try to sort out the extended warranty on iPhones if we buy them on the plan and it's complicated. But saving $300 per phone is pretty appealing.
 
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