u/farfromworkin — reddlx

Viator Amex Stacking

I was super excited and then…

So I searched Savewise and found a possible stacking opportunity through Rakuten to Viator (10x) and Amex $35 back on purchases of $350 up to 2x probably a coded excursion as travel for 5x points.

So I clicked through Rakuten to Viator and scheduled and paid for a wine tour in Greece and paid in full with my Amex. It is refundable.

I intend to schedule another tour so I wanted them on different linked shopping trips. This second time I read the T&Cs better. yes, I know, do that first…

And what do I see.. seems like it can’t be stacked with cash back card offers. What do you all think about how this will play out? Stay the course and see or decide between $35 off or earning 4500 points with Rakuten.. I’m not sure I want to end up with 5 point per dollar spent with Amex (probably codes as travel) and $35 when I can get those points with another card and Rakuten’s 10x.. what’s the best play here?

I could also consider Rove I guess with 8x points plus card points and looks like also earning the $35

u/farfromworkin — 3 days ago

▲ 0 r/emirates

My Lord today has been a costly transfer and booking nightmare

I’m sure what I’m about to say is all user error, but it sure has made for a really tough day that’s still not resolved.

I signed up for an Emirates Skyward acct and so did my husband back in January. Since I’m the planner I created a family account and my husband tried to accept my invitation to the family account.. for hours the link would say he needed to be logging in via the e-mail the invitation was sent from. Obviously he was using the e-mail link I sent or otherwise where would that link have come from???!!! After 3-4 different chat sessions, over hours clearing caches and different browser types, etc, he decided to use his phone instead of our shared computer (logging in and out of each other’s accounts many times). His damn phone worked with the e-mail link.. different IP address maybe?

With that done, I transferred all of our Bilt points 250,000+ and they landed in the family account as hoped. Both of our accounts were set to send 100% to the family account. I needed to send a few more points from either Capital One or Amex so I selected my Capital One. Hit send and they landed in my personal account instead of the family account. I already knew I couldn’t move points between accounts. I was stumped and screwed (though one should be able to transfer to a family account if one is set up). I googled and found out Amex and CO points will only transfer to personal accounts. Seriously!!! Who would have known such an absurd thing especially when there’s a linked family acct. Sent more points and forced to now buy a single one way ticket.

Here’s the kicker, I opted for the skyward+ subscription for the 20% one time booking bonus. Now I can only use it for his round trip. But!!! That page to redeem the code will Not load on my computer!!! Spins and spins. Hours later I’ll have some stranded points because of the first Bilt transfer of now too many points as I don’t need all of those for a one way ticket to complete my booking and one round trip for my husband and I can’t use the discount.

Where were the notifications from any of these sites? What fine print hidden in pages of fine print did any of this information get presented? How can points not transfer to a family account?!! Some automatically others not all?!!!

I am so beyond frustrated and I am not sure how all of this has gone wrong.

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u/farfromworkin — 5 days ago

▲ 2 r/Rakuten

Linked page never loads

I think it was my VPN - Thanks everyone!

So Rakuten has been working for me on my phone for a few months since opening it and works with my login on my computer, but something has changed. The app opens and works as expected until I continue through to any linked website. What did I accidentally change or other issue? Click picture to see the top and bottom.. this is how every linked pages looks and never loads.

u/farfromworkin — 13 days ago