An Accidental Tech Podcast?

Viewer Questions

• What are your thoughts on holding multiples of the same card (IHG cards, Hilton Aspire cards, CCCs, etc)? Do you hold doubles or see yourself ever acquiring doubles? - AP 
• Now that most premium smart phones cost over $1,500 and are creeping up towards the $2,000 mark, it seems that cell phone coverage through credit cards leaves us with only partial coverage.  Most banks provide between $600 - $1,200 of coverage for lost or damaged phones.  Which cards do you currently use to pay your phone bills, and is there a better overall points-earning card on the market for monthly phone bills? - Keith
• So I been considering the best route to get status to get a better experience. So if I pick American Airlines as my domestic/ secondary partner I could earn status more specifically by stacking using AA E Shopping portal, AA Dining program, AA travel portal for hotel ie.   Possible spend on credit card. I am considering adding Citi / AADVANTAGE EXECUTIVE WORLD ELITE MASTERCARD ($595) which would provide me some additional benefits when flying on AA steal and would provide me lounge action for the Admiral club when I fly Cathay Pacific. So here’s my theoretical question just imagine
  • That there’s no premium travel cards for you United flyers there’s no premium united club card, there’s no Delta Reserve, and there’s no premium good JetBlue card sorry, Matt. And no stacking ways to build loyalty points. But you have a route to earn status through one your airlines partners such as my is Oneworld. This airline has a a premium credit card that allows you lounge access when you fly your US airlines. And they have all the stacking options. All of the airlines in your in your airline alliance have the same options. So which airline would you pick from the alliance and would you choose to earn status throughout an another airline? - Jared_T
• What is your favorite card? Why is it your favorite? - Keith 
• If you could add one feature, category multiplier, transfer partner, or protection to your favorite card, what would that be?  And would you be willing to pay a higher AF for that improvement? And why do you think the card needs this improvement? - Keith 

News Round-Up

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Topics

• Matt
  • No, you don’t NEED a retention offer every year on every card.
• Lani
  • Timing of the strategy. Just get the card you want vs. family language
• Tariq
  • Is the credit card game really that complicated, or does the community like to overcomplicate the game?
• RJ 
  • Tomorrow you wake up with 0’s across all of your point totals. How would you rebuild your point stocks?