Youngest Flyer in The Residence Suite

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Luxury Life on a Maccas Wage - News.com.au Article

This article came out a couple of days ago and I just wondered if many people had heard of this 17 yr old - Zac George and your take on things?

He's a 17yr old from Brisbane who has 10 credit cards under his and his parents name's and earns 2,000,000 points/year through sign-up bonuses and buying points.

I for one love a good credit card sign-up bonus, but I just wonder how he's able to keep it going at 17... perhaps his parents run a business and spend up big on the cards. But I just wondered at 17 how he keeps his credit card rating high enough to keep churning through cards all the time?
 
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I wouldn't believe everything read in that story about young Mr George ...
 
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Re: Luxury Life on a Maccas Wage - News.com.au Article

Thanks for the click through. I did search his name but it didn't come up with anything.

I was just perplexed about how a 'child' in financial terms had 10 credit cards etc.

Seems it isn't exactly what it seems to be. Nothing unusual for a news.com.au article.
 
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So many lies and exaggerations in that article. Check out his website to see how many holes there are in his claims.
 
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Dr Ralph said:
So many lies and exaggerations in that article.
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If this is the case, no doubt he is destined for a great career in politics. Presidential/ Prime Minsterial material really.
 
trippin_the_rift said:
I've met Zac and he's a down to earth genuine guy. Good for him and what's he's achieving with his blog. Not everyone is designed for the 1800s style schooling system and I'd suggest he's learning more by traveling the world than he ever would in a traditional classroom.

I do enjoy making fun of him not being able to drink alcohol though ;)
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Hear hear

and I'll have his drinks for him !

Teenagers earn more than most think. Casual wages can be like $22 per hour. Means can pretty much save $20,000 per year !
Not that I'd spend $20k on the residence when $US7,000 will do

surely parents are meant to help their kids enter the adult world as self-sufficient ?
Besides there's a lot of Uni dropout millionaires. Including mr cannon-Brooke's. Jobs and gates ....

Btw blogging appears to be a 2 year no income gig before you might begin to crack the cash, and with luck of selling ad space, click bait so on so forth could gross a million within 3-4 years
https://onestep4ward.com/motivational-monday-how-i-made-1-million-dollars-in-3-years-blogging/
money makes money makes money but only after the first investment (eg the AA / Alaska Bonus miles gig $1900 F awards)
 
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Dress it up anyway you like. He is still living the dream!
 
Youngest Ever Etihad Residence Travellor

seems this kid has got all the tips and tricks of getting points via credit card worked out

good on him

Zac George, Queensland teen the youngest person to fly Etihad Residence class

however, what I dont get from the article, is he buying points on sale or getting them all for "technically) free from credit card purchases

its not as big as an achievement if say his family was paying for all of his domestic flights and he was using the points accumulated from these flights!
 
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ALso he says he uses points for all his international flights yet he is paying for the Etihad flight.
No choice of course, you can't book or upgrade to The Residence with points!
 
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esseeeayeenn said:
ALso he says he uses points for all his international flights yet he is paying for the Etihad flight.
No choice of course, you can't book or upgrade to The Residence with points!
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You can book The Residence with Etihad Guest miles but only as an OpenSeat award i.e. trading points for a revenue seat. The cost is close to 2.2 million miles for SYD-AUH one way for one person.
 
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Something does not add up with a young guy with millions of miles and money flying J/F internationally, his parents business perhaps?
 
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This subject has been done to death, on AFF and non associated FB pages. A few of us know him, and my observation is that he is a nice young man, indulging his passion , whether it be via parents points earn on CC's etc. or not. What he is doing is something most of us (me included) wish we knew about, and had the resources to do, a lot earlier. If he crashes and burns, I'm sure there will be plenty of "I told you so" types on hand.
For now, I find his blog mildly interesting, (poor grammar and syntax not withstanding ) but I don't really follow, and I'm sure he will improve with time, if he doesn't, well he will have to deal with that.
 
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