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Independent Liquor Spend is back again but the list appears to be ‘thinner’ than last year (?) and the time frame is short to exclude Christmas/NY. I’ve not ever been to a store that has GCs but carefully targetting specials may result in some good deals.

A recent CBR-MEL-PER vv on flexi for work yielded just 96 SCs. Old system would have been nearer 150 (I’m guessing). I just don’t fly often enough to maintain WP in the new system. I tend to travel with family so the BIS rule clips the usefulness of family pooling. I’m not prepared to take...

I don't recall a fee for FC or any other retailer card before. Seems counter-productive.

No one has been treated any differently yet, at least in regard to an annual fee, so I don't understand how you can say, think or feel that "cardholders have been treated very shabbily". You're jumping at shadows. If you want to argue any changes to the card, go and do so about their removal...

And what payment "rectifies your situation"? If they are not going to waive any annual fee on the MyCard in the future, then your situation has not been rectified. They've short-changed you and you've either settled for less or grabbed something on the way out. For the life of me I can't...

But I need to know if I'm going to be charged for a card that's free that I don't use because I have other better free options!!! :rolleyes::rolleyes:

Hard to pick a factor that would make one hotel "the best". But Rydges have the best beds in the biz, IMO, so I enjoy staying in any of their hotels.

It's one of many highly visible and strong signs that Australians are spending more and more, in spite of an apparent cost-of-living crisis.

No it means there are airlines all too happy to exploit the foolish, ignorant or desperate.

I got a QF email asking me if I was still looking for fares to ADL. These emails are common and expected from several sources including airlines, hotels and hire cars. The problem is that I haven't been looking for anything ADL related except the scorecard from last years pink ball test v IND...

"one of my fellow Jetstar passengers was very rude to me for no particular reason" Surely related to seeing your knees. Frightening.

A quick google indicates that you're right and a new prado actually starts well under $100k. My car-dar is way off. I did like it but found the cruise control difficult to use and the side mirrors oddly narrow. Minor surmountable quibbles.

They have indeed, usually, and the current Amex credit is a bonus. Europcar's rates are sharp too and their no recharge and better cashback makes for a good deal either way. Pricing was bi-polar crazy last week in Perth though with Hertz and Europcar both in excess of $170/day for most vehicle...

hoooo boy that's some next level cynicism there @MEL_Traveller :) Been a while since any VA flight I've been on could be described as anything but full, even with my tight-cough preferencing of very early and/or late times, but still entirely possible I was played. Although, I'd prefer it if...

A surprising but good experience: I flew CBR-MEL-PER vv recently on flexi fares. Not long before departure, I checked rewards on the outward legs but none available, unsurprisingly. I don't handle rejection well and I'm a realist (see avatar) so I didn't even check rewards for the return leg...

Here's how mine ultimately posted on my Amex statement. There's a distinction of sorts, so my recollection wasn't entirely clear. These kinds of double dips are very welcome. I rented through Thrifty recently and the charge on my statement was from Hertz. I've already got the credit for...

Susan Ley in the CBR VA lounge recently. Appeared to be taking instruction from an assistant on how a buffet works. Wanted to ask about her own little plane but I always think these people would be over such intrusions. Michael Vaughan and Allan Lamb were in the group ahead of me at Lake...

I did precisely the same thing not realising that the 4c is automatic (if you have one valid) when scanning rewards card which you must do to get the 1000pts. The pricing at EG in the ACT is wild. Due to the Costco, Airport is 20c/L cheaper than those nearer me in the south and 10c cheaper...

Yeah that's shabby @clifford I think you'll have no issue getting charged the amount originally quoted, other than the PITA dealing with them. I tend to prepay so this nonsense hasn't happened to me. Once they moved me to a vehicle that had limited kms which I exceeded but the cost was...

Highly likely the other credit will post in due course guys. And as Laithwaites and Australian not as wine people IIRC.