Author: Matt

Matt has been an avid points collector since 1992 (an elementary school student), when his dad signed up for the new (at the time) Air Miles program. Since then, Matt took a keen interest in learning how the miles and points world works. He quickly found out that there is a lot of value in leveraging miles and points to fund his passion for travelling.
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Top Credit Card Higher than Normal Sign Up Bonuses for June 2017

ByMatt

Another month, another Top Credit Card Higher than Normal Sign Up Bonuses list. Keep in mind that I have been combining personal and business cards onto the same list.

We also have two other types of monthly lists going on:

Top Cash Back Credit Card Offers
Best Current First Year Fee Waived Cards

Comparing Capital One Aspire versus Venture Card

ByMatt

Capital One used to be my favourite credit card company, especially when they still has the Delta SkyMiles and IHG Rewards co-branded credit cards. They really slimmed down their credit card portfolio in Canada. Today, we are going to discuss their most premium credit card that they offer and compare it to a similar one in the United States.

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Best Current First Year Fee Waived Cards for May 2017

ByMatt

Another month, another Best Current First Year Fee Waived Cards list. I divided the list into two types: permanent offers (i.e. no specified expiry date) and promotional offers (with an expiry date).

We also have two other types of monthly lists going on:

Top Cash Back Credit Card Offers
Top Higher than Normal Sigh Up Bonus Offers

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Review of Carrot Rewards

ByMatt

Carrot Rewards has become quite a popular App since expanding outside of British Columbia, where it originally started. Carrot Rewards has expanded to Ontario, as well as Newfoundland and Labrador. Seems like they have some plans to expand to more provinces, so be on the lookout for that!

Tip- If you have a family or friend living on one of those provinces, you may be able to borrow their postal code. The precaution I would take is whether the postal code on your loyalty account matches.

Pointimize – Hotel and Flight Search Tool

ByMatt

Pointimize was launched only a year ago.

To me, this website is a one-stop shop to find award availability over multiple airline and hotel loyalty programs.

How it Works

Once your account has been created, you can start adding your loyalty programs. Pointimize supports both manual input and AwardWallet account syncing. Once your accounts have been linked, you can begin searching for award available.

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Comparing Canada, Hong Kong and USA Cathay Pacific Credit Cards

ByMatt

Thank you Bob for today’s post idea suggestion. Note that I am always open to suggestions on credit card comparison posts as I have a lot of fun writing them, especially when I am comparing cards from different countries.

Cathay Pacific has a long list of co-branded credit card, but I selected 4 from the entire pack to compare. As we are a Canadian-centric blog, I started with the Canadian version. I generally like to compared to the United States, seeing as we are such close neighbours and they offer the most competitive cards in the world, which I like to see how Canada matches up against the best. Lastly, I think that it is most fitting to compared with the Hong Kong co-branded cards, as Cathay Pacific is based out of ther