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2026-09-04 Led with Paze temporarily lifting the $10 Dunkin gift card cap so you can finish the $100-per-card cash back before Sept 10, plus the Atmos Global Getaways award sale ending Sept 5, a targeted Ikon Pass Amex Offer, record 125K Citi AAdvantage Executive and 90K Avios welcome bonuses, a stackable Shops at Chase $250-off discount, CSR fraud-AI and price-match community warnings, and Radar on Chase business bonuses, Flying Blue, SiriusXM, a Freedom Flex rumor and a driver's-license breach. 2026-09-03 Covered Best Buy's unlimited 10% off Safeway/Albertsons eGift cards, a targeted Citi Travel $75-off hotel promo, a SimplyMiles Avis AA miles-plus-Loyalty-Points offer, American Flagship First ending Nov 19 with new 777 suites, Southwest's 11 lounges and 2027 Chase card, an FNBO no-fee travel card, a rumored Chase Aeroplan refresh, Marriott Homes & Villas double elite nights, CardPointers 50% off, and community intel on JAL partner rebooking and BA-through-JAL, with Radar on Paze's Sept 10 credit cutoff, Flying Blue 25% off, United standby and Atmos lap infants. 2026-09-02 Led with the SLH Amex Offer ($100 back on $300), Virgin Atlantic 70% points sale and Paze's final days; covered the CSR DoorDash $15 credit swap, Freedom Unlimited 3X groceries, Amex-to-Hilton 30% bonus and GHA Discovery status, plus a speculative-transfer strategy note and Radar on Cap One JAL, Santander, AA skiplagging, United standby and OMAAT. 2026-09-01 Led with Costco's $100 inKind restaurant card for $64.99, plus Capital One's 30% Japan Airlines transfer bonus, Rove's new Copa ConnectMiles partner with a 40% bonus, US Bank Altitude Reserve's transfer partners, Q4 Discover it categories, the Chase IHG Business night bump, Pendry San Diego Edit and Best Buy delivery gift-card discounts, a WSJ premium-perk crackdown piece, and a CSR+Plat trip breakdown, with Radar on Delta 200K, PayPal groceries and Flying Blue basic awards. 2026-08-31 Led with today's month-end deadline to convert an expiring CSR shopping credit into an Apple gift card, plus a DISH $85/$85 Chase Offer and Office Depot gift-card discount, Chase-to-Air Canada transfer delays, the Atmos Summit fee waiver, The Edit's hidden standard rooms, live award sweet spots, and a Rakuten meal-kit stack. 2026-08-30 Covered targeted 175K CSR/125K CSP in-app offers, Columbia Bank's NJ $500+$500 bonus, highest-ever Ink Business Cash 100K, an AA transcon Avios sweet spot, Bilt's authorized-user Rent Day trick, United schedule-change rebooking rights, and the Chase Travel 10% credit, with Radar on Paze/Sephora, the Marriott promo, and an AA upgrade fix. 2026-08-29 Led with Bilt's Sept 1 Rent Day up-to-100% Virgin Atlantic transfer bonus, covered the highest-ever Chase Ink Business Unlimited 100K, the CSR Exclusive Tables restaurant shuffle, a $300-credit clawback warning, Walmart OnePay's 3% Apple Pay boost, JSX $49 companion fares, and a Giftcards.com 15X stack, with Radar on Delta's steady 200K, Paze leaving Sephora, and Frontier gutting elite status. 2026-08-28 Covered Delta Amex welcome offers jumping to 200K, Under Canvas 50%-off second night (ends Aug 30), a targeted Hilton Surpass 3x offer, Google AI award-price search, an unhonored Edit late-checkout data point, Accor free Silver status, and a Flying Blue 80% buy-points bonus, with Radar on Chase bank transfers, Sephora Paze limits and AA's rumored Chicago exit. 2026-08-27 Covered Rakuten's new up-to-$275 bonus for Bank of America cardholders, GalaxyOne's last $1,000 bank-bonus tier, the Giftcards.com 10% Visa eGift deal, a Delta Amex Gold 80k+$250 offer, the trick to getting Chase to honor a higher SUB within 30 days, Aeromexico's 1:1.6 Amex sweet spot, and cheap Marriott Platinum status. 2026-08-26 Led with the Chase Sapphire Reserve for Business 200K bonus, covered the Marriott 40%-off points sale (ends Sept 9), ending-soon Capital One Spark bonuses, a Sony Chase Offer stack, the CSR-exclusive Whoop perk, ALL Accor and inKind promos, a name-mismatch bug slowing UR transfers, Paze credits posting after closure, JAL business to Tokyo and draining UR before 2027, with Radar on the Lufthansa Amex Offer, United's 2027 expansion, a '175K scam' claim and more price-match failures. 2026-08-25 Led with the Amex $200-back offer on Lufthansa-group airfare via Amex Travel, covered OnePay's 3%-everywhere deadline, Staples no-fee $200 Visa gift cards, Rakuten's 25K Bilt bonus for no-fee BofA cards, the Chewy and TripAdvisor stacks, JetBlue's Boston BlueHouse and Mint lounge access, plus CSR authorized-user lounge entry, the $100 hotel credit posting-date gotcha, Fidelity Visa's new perks, ANA fuel-surcharge skip-lagging, Paze gift-card salvage and Chase retention offers, with Radar on Paze's still-missing credits, the Citi Leaders Club bonus and United's stored seats. 2026-08-24 Led with the Citi AAdvantage Executive 125K signup bonus and a Citi 25% transfer bonus to Leaders Club, covered the Dunkin Paze 3-gift-card window and a targeted Peacock Amex moneymaker, the 50%-back YouTube Premium offer, a Holiday Inn Club Vacations timeshare stay, the reminder that CSR points transfer to Hyatt at 1:1 not 1.5x, and portal-vs-Rakuten excursion math, with Radar on Aer Lingus Avios, a 0% APR card list, US Open lounge freebies and Grand Hyatt DFW. 2026-08-23 Led with the South State Bank $300 checking bonus (no direct deposit) and Sam's Club's 20%-off DoorDash gift cards, covered the US Open Chase/Amex lounges reopening, a targeted Amex Apple Pay credit, US Bank's new transfer partners and a YouTube TV Amex Offer, plus Priority Pass Unwind walk-up tips, YMCA coding as an online-category bonus, an American Airlines award-downgrade cautionary tale and PAR-SEA earning quirk, with Radar on the StubHub Paze 15x, Thrifty Traveler 30% and a 125K CSP data point. 2026-08-22 Led with the Peloton 100% back Chase Offer (ends Sept 30), covered Bilt's new Blacklane chauffeur credit, the upcoming Rakuten Amex Card, an unconfirmed Freedom no-FX-fee rumor, a $52K Amex purchase-protection payout, Edit price-match resubmission and overcharge data points, United cardholder award availability and transfer-priority strategy, with Radar on Amex's rumored 185K offers, Tuesday's United route reveal, Homes & Villas points and the Viagogo credit trick. 2026-08-21 Covered stacking the CSR StubHub credit with elevated Capital One rates, the CSR Pay Yourself Back cut from 25% to 20%, a last-day AF/KL business fare, Leading Hotels/Best Western/JetBlue buy-points deals, Aven's 5% card, record Chase Ink bonuses, Alaska's new Europe routes, non-flexible Chase Travel fares, and Radar on the Flying Blue deval and Edit loophole backtrack. 2026-08-20 Led with a Delta Amex Offer ($250 back on $2K booked via Amex Travel) and a one-day Best Buy gift card deal, covered buying United tickets through the Paze stack, the Avianca Lifemiles 145% bonus, the reported Shops at Chase $250 credit and shorter Sapphire Lounge waits, a SUB-without-junk strategy, with Radar on Flying Blue's award devaluation, Paze Sephora reversals, Marriott Brilliant's offer and thinning Aeroplan Lufthansa space. 2026-08-19 Led with Chase quietly reversing the Edit back-to-back $250 credit nerf, covered the Amex 30% Avios transfer bonus deadline and a Giftcards.com stack, flagged Flying Blue's tiered-award devaluation and Chase's World of Hyatt ratio change plus Edit hotel credit data points, the drop-the-CSR downgrade strategy, and Radar on the 175K CSR offer, American's premium retrofit, Qatar Avios sale, Thrifty Traveler discount and a Wyndham Business bonus. 2026-08-18 Led with Cathay Pacific's award rebate promo (800 Asia Miles back per 5,000 redeemed), covered the Domino's/St. Jude Paze 13x trick, Wells Fargo adding Wyndham and Asia Miles as transfer partners, the Amex Gold 100K offer, Resy credit expanding to Tock, Alaska's lap-infant award fix and American's harsher 24-hour refund rule, plus a Hyatt-before-October transfer question and a CSR claim-denial lesson, with Radar on the 175K/125K Sapphire offers, the Edit back-to-back nerf and Rakuten's CFU bonus. 2026-08-17 Covered Macy's adding a shipping fee that guts the Paze $10 credit plus better ways to burn Paze credits, Phoenix Sapphire Lounge dropping reservations Sept 1, a Staples Scotch deal, a 3.42x Southwest-via-United redemption, the Hyatt card jumping to 75K, Virgin Hotels refreshing the $100 credit, and digital CSR cards. 2026-08-16 Led with Chase Travel closing the back-to-back Edit $250 double-dip, covered the working Priority Pass access change and Uber One's rides-credit cut, the still-live Edit/IHG/price-match stack, CSR parking-earns-toward-credit and $100 retention datapoints, and Radar on Qatar saver space, US Bank partners, LAX lounge and AAdvantage strategy. 2026-08-15 Led with the Aeroplan award sale (up to 25% off Air Canada flights) and the refreshed Rakuten Chase-card cashback bonuses, plus the Citi Strata Elite 75K/$1,200 launch, a new 10% Caesars Chase Offer and a Flying Blue transatlantic promo, CSR price-match wins, the Southwest $500 credit booking rule, Chase Travel reliability failures, the Lyft/AI pricing warning, and Radar on the ongoing 125K/175K Sapphire offers, an IHG 70% bonus, the Asiana-Korean merger and US Bank's still-mysterious transfer partners. 2026-08-14 Led with the World of Hyatt card's up-to-60K offer expiring Aug 20 and the Aug 15 loss of Etihad Lounge IAD access for CSR, plus Amex-to-Leading Hotels transfers, KrisFlyer Spontaneous Escapes 30% off, the Bilt Palladium card, immediate CSP transfer datapoints, and Radar on the Marriott Brilliant 150K, Aeroplan 30% stack and CSR public 100K. 2026-08-13 Led with targeted 175K CSR/125K CSP elevated sign-up offers and a Citi-to-Turkish 40% transfer bonus, plus Amex adding 350+ Fine Hotels properties, US Bank already dropping two transfer partners, the death of the Amex multi-card offer trick, Peacock/Apple TV+ and Paramount+ datapoints, Edit credit math and an Aer Lingus Avios play. 2026-08-12 Led with Chase's new 20% Aeroplan transfer bonus (stackable to 30% for Aeroplan cardholders) and a today-only Klook rebate, covered US Bank finally launching transfer partners and big Citi ThankYou welcome offers, three fresh CSR/Chase Offers (Trust & Will, YouTube Premium, Freedom Unlimited 3% gas/grocery), Amex transfer-value strategy, and Radar on the Amex-Avios bonus, Air Canada buying back Aeroplan, OnePay gas and Breeze. 2026-08-11 Led with the elevated Citi AAdvantage Platinum 80K offer, plus a Virgin Atlantic JFK-CDG business sweet spot, Bonvoy Boundless four-free-night certs, an extended Hyatt Place/Select 30k promo, Edit property-credit rules, a single report of redeeming points at 1.25 toward the Sapphire annual fee and Chase SUB-matching datapoints, with Radar on the Aeroplan/Blackstone sale, Paze reaching Citi Double Cash, Southwest 40% off, Melio and a Qsuites Baku fare. 2026-08-10 Led with the Office Depot/OfficeMax $15-off-$300 Visa gift card deal (ends Aug 16), plus a new Chase account-abuse warning, Price Match confirmed on Edit hotels, downgrade-don't-cancel Sapphire strategy, a DFW Sapphire Lounge wheelchair failure, and Radar on Paze at Wendy's/Newegg and the 30% Amex-to-Avios bonus. 2026-08-09 Covered the winding-down Paze 10-for-10 promo (Dunkin dropping its 24-hour wait, Wendy's live, Macy's back), a targeted Amex Rewards Dollars 50%-off Amazon deal, a steep KLM/Air France NY-Italy business devaluation, Etihad/SWISS low-point business sweet spots, CSR chargeback and rental-CDW success stories, an Amex downgrade annual-fee-refund gotcha, and strategy on the coming $800 CSR fee and which Chase hotel card to target at 4/24. 2026-08-08 Led with the no-annual-fee Ink Business Unlimited's record 100K offer, plus the Hyatt Business card at 70K, a free month of Peloton via Chase Offers, a Hyatt Latin America/Caribbean free-night promo, Capital One $20-for-1,000-miles offers, Freedom Flex dropping its FTF but killing cell phone protection Sept 20, the new 20K cost to add a domestic leg on AA partner awards, and Radar on Lufthansa 70K, fresh Marriott offers, Admirals Club hikes, AA upgrade cuts and LATAM pulling award seats. 2026-08-07 Led with refreshed Amex/Chase Marriott card welcome offers and the elevated Chase IHG Premier, plus Flying Blue's August Europe promo, Citi Strata Elite, Virgin Red and AAdvantage Business bonuses, an Amex Hertz offer, buying Hyatt points, IHG-via-Chase-portal datapoints, a LAX-LHR Virgin Upper Class redemption, a Chase Travel stranded warning and United compound pricing, with Radar on Alaska Global Getaways ending Aug 8, Aeroplan 100K and American upgrade cuts. 2026-08-06 Led with CSR annual-fee-season retention offers ($200 and $25 datapoints) plus full-refund timing, then Qatar Qsuites wide open for summer 2027 from 54k Avios, Alaska Global Getaways 50% off, Capital One Venture's new $100 hotel credit, Bilt 3x Avios on rent, an Amex Accor offer, price-match reliability strategy, and Radar on the Southwest companion deadline, Bonvoy changes, Delta Austin, and Admirals Club hikes. 2026-08-05 Led with the new United Explorer $500 statement credit plus 35k miles offer, plus the Chase Aeroplan 100k and Barclays Lufthansa 70k SUBs and the Marriott Chase/Amex renewal; covered a fresh Chase Offers batch, the Business Sapphire-to-AU Hyatt transfer confirmation, a $715 trip-delay payout, and Edit-credit Asia stays, with Radar on the Amex-Avios and Southwest deadlines. 2026-08-04 Led with a promotional Southwest Companion Pass earned from a single round-trip, plus a 40% Citi-to-Turkish transfer bonus, Priority Pass dining vouchers returning for CSR, a 100% IHG points-buying bonus ending Aug 17, the Sapphire signup bonus splitting per product, a Loews Philadelphia CSR credit, and Bilt's Accor-to-Qatar status play. 2026-08-03 Led with Chase Points Boost dropping Ritz-Carlton stays to about 19k points a night, plus a 30% Amex-to-Avios transfer bonus, a Target Card $75 spend bonus, a non-Amex Delta signup bonus, targeted Fairmont/Raffles/Sofitel Amex Offers, GHA Discovery Dollars at 15% off, Elan cards now on Paze, Rakuten/Capital One portal stacking, OpenTable food-truck credits, splitting Priority Pass guests, a JAL 60k AA clarification, and radar on Google Fi ending today plus Uber/Aldi Chase Offers. 2026-08-02 Covered Chase's new 5-hour Sapphire Lounge window for connections, an Atmos partner award jump to 130k, a 125k in-branch CSR datapoint, IHG points at a 100% bonus, a targeted PenFed offer, a Chase Travel bad-hotel refund, and strategy on Chase limit cuts and CSP-to-CSR upgrades, plus radar on Paze credit timing and the West Palm DJT code. 2026-08-01 Led with a reported 70% transfer bonus into IHG One Rewards through Aug 31, plus cheap AA miles via AT&T, the Aug 15 Sapphire Lounge Priority Pass cutoff, the CSR's free GigSky eSIM, Capital One offers and its 15% Avianca bonus, Flying Blue and Emirates award sales, and Radar on Paze credit quirks, 5/24 counting, GoogleFi phone-claim denials, and the CSP 100K referral. 2026-07-31 Led with Macy's joining the Paze $10-back promo, plus the Marriott Homes & Villas $350 Amex Offer, American's tightened 24-hour refund rule, the Atmos Ascent 70k offer, an Iberia DFW-MAD Avios sweet spot, Boston's Sapphire Lounge, and radar on the CSP 100K referral still being live. 2026-07-30 Covered InKind dining ($25 first meal plus up to 25% back), the Wyndham points sale at 0.68c, Hilton cutting Honors funding by up to 32%, the July 2026 transferable-points devaluation roundup, Chase accepting Canadian/UK credit history, Amare Cancun going Hilton, a targeted Apple Card $300 bonus, a CSR roadside assistance data point, the reinstated $50 CSP hotel credit, Nevis on Hilton certs, and the involuntary-cancellation schedule-change-desk trick, with radar on Cathay's 10% bonus, Discover in Paze, logged-in price-match rejections, and Singapore's KrisFlyer search limits. 2026-07-29 Led with Amex's new 4:1 Leading Hotels Leaders Club transfer partner (~2cpp at luxury properties); covered back-to-school fee-free gift cards, an Alaska/Hawaiian Amex Offer, Hilton points at 0.53c, a new Marriott Chase Offer, Bilt Rent Day details, Paze credit-timing intel, Turo and Apple Music Chase perks, portal-vs-direct booking, an Avios tax-saving routing, transfer name-matching, and Radar on the CSP 100K July 30 end, Cathay's 10% bonus, and Virgin's award-booking outage. 2026-07-28 Led with Philippine Airlines business class to Asia now bookable at ~75k Alaska/Atmos miles with wide availability; covered Bilt's Aug 1 Rent Day Accor status match, Citi Strata Elite 75k eligibility, a targeted Delta Amex Offer plus Uber/Office Depot deals, Edit credit stacking on a single stay, CSR rental car coverage gaps abroad, cashing out UR without a Chase checking account, Chase's new lifetime-bonus language, and radar on Chase-Hyatt dropping to 75%, Discover joining the Paze promo, a Cathay Canadian-partner bonus, and the Delta-Starbucks earning cut. 2026-07-27 Led with Staples fee-free $200 digital Visa gift cards and the Target One4All $10 bonus (both through Aug 1); covered the reshaped Paze $10-back deal on non-gift-card buys plus the Sephora lip-sale stack, a Virgin Atlantic Upper Class MCO-LHR redemption and Qatar QSuites cash fare, transferable-point devaluations, the new bigger DFW Sapphire Lounge, Edit-credit third-booking stacking, and radar on CSP 100K for former Sapphire holders, a Marriott points-only resort fee, the US $250 visa fee, and Point.me's Explore tool. 2026-07-26 Covered the new Giftcards.com 5% Chase Offer and Webster Bank $900 bonus, the death of Paze 10x on Newegg/gift cards, OnePay 5% on Walmart+ coding as CSR spend, the full $1770 CSR credit map with the 45-day refund window, the Select Hotel credit clawback-and-reinstate quirk on cancellations, the Wawa pickup no-minimum perk, Qatar 75k Avios to Bangkok and a JFK transcon first-class comparison, with the CSP 100K July 30 end date on radar. 2026-07-25 Covered the Edit-credit clawback after price matches (with a cancel-and-rebook fix), ending Marriott Bonvoy card offers, the Newegg Delta gift card 10% bonus, a 27K United Polaris sweet spot, new Turo and targeted Amazon MR offers, a StubHub refund warning, Priority Pass setup on new CSRs, Hyatt cashback stacks, the CSR once-per-lifetime SUB reality, and Radar on the winding-down CSP 100K offer. 2026-07-24 Led with Chase confirming the Sapphire Preferred 100K offer ends July 30 at 9am ET; covered the Marriott Boundless 125K+50K FNC and United Business 110K offers, the best-ever BofA Air France-KLM 100K+100XP card, Apple One Family at ~$12/mo via CSR credits, Hyatt and Alaska Amex Offers, retention data points, creative Paze stacks, Chase Travel booking horror stories, and radar on a Chase flagship rumor, Southwest lounges, and an Alaska-Qatar economy devaluation. 2026-07-23 Led with the twice-usable Viator Amex Offer ($40 back on $250) and the Target/DoorDash gift card double dip; covered BofA's broad $175 retention, the new BofA Air France-KLM 70K+100XP card, a targeted Hyatt AU bonus, TastyTrade's 3% transfer bonus, LifeMiles dropping free changes for new LifeMiles+ subscribers, Qatar Avios guest exceptions, Singapore's 1K-mile search minimum, Edit/price-match stacking math, a reversed 398K Qantas phantom transfer, the Choice 40%-off points sale, and radar items on a disputed Chase Amazon shutdown wave and Sapphire card rumors. 2026-07-22 Covered the CSP 100K offer nearing its end with former Sapphire cardholders now getting approved, Delta's registerable summer promo stack, the Air Canada Chase Offer covering Aeroplan award taxes, new Chase Offer abuse warnings, the firming Citi-JAL transfer rumor, Qatar's new award-booking nominee restriction, targeted Marriott/Hyatt Place Chase Offers, kosher Exclusive Tables, InKind dining-credit data points, and community wisdom on a 365K Andaz Maui week and 75K JAL business. 2026-07-21 Led with the Amex/Citi to Flying Blue 20% transfer bonus and 14K Europe promo awards (through Aug 22), plus the CSP 100K offer now looking pinned to ~Aug 17 and today's US Mint silver coin spend deal; covered the targeted Amex Biz Platinum 300K and Marriott Boundless 125K offers, a new $100 Air Canada credit landing on Chase Aeroplan cards plus an Air Canada Chase Offer, BofA $175 retention via chatbot, the raised 75K World of Hyatt personal card, Chase Ink 100K/$1,000 bonuses, Chase Offers now forcing video ads, the super.com Edit price-match stack, r/CreditCards PSAs on 'already approved' CSP 5/24 declines and lingering Citi authorized users, Seats.aero's new Chrome extension, and radar items on JetBlue taking Spirit's LGA slots, a Southwest award sale from 7K, Aeroplan SFO-MUC business at 75K, and Wyndham-Caesars transfers. 2026-07-20 Led with Reddit data points on triple-dipping CSR travel credits (annual, Edit, Select Hotel) plus third-party price matching The Edit; covered the increased 70K World of Hyatt Business offer, the still-live CSP 100K offer with end-date speculation, Apple 4x portal miles today only, the extended Rakuten 5K bonus, Bilt $30 home delivery credits, Hyatt cert early-expiry and viagogo/PayPal credit warnings, a Rome Edit hotel dropping out, the Chase Travel portal outage, AeroMexico's 1:1.6 transfer math, and an Air France JFK-Dubrovnik 45K business sweet spot. 2026-07-19 Led with confirmed Chase Travel Price Match stacking on The Edit bookings (115K UR + $600 cash, $300 refunded, Edit credit intact) alongside the contradicting r/ChaseSapphireReserve DPs on taxes and staggered rollout; covered Exclusive Tables requiring no reservation, the $300 travel credit ordering ahead of Edit/IHG credits, the Peloton credit funding Strength+, targeted Chase My Bonus spending offers, Aeroplan's Emirates first-class restriction plus new premium economy awards, Staples $200 MC gift cards fee-free 7/19–7/25, the Postmates FINALGAME code expiring today, Priority Pass lounge crowding, Delta's $17 cash upgrade experiment, and a note that this week's FlyerTalk premium fare crop had nothing JFK/LGA-origin. 2026-07-18 Led with the 50% Chase→Iberia Avios transfer bonus (book by March 31) as the top action alongside the AA transatlantic saver J flood and NYC Restaurant Week's Reserve Exclusive Tables; covered the Ritz-Carlton NY Central Park $100 Chase Offer, Kroger $50-off-$100 DoorDash stack, Marriott Bonvoy–JAL partnership, The Edit price-match data point, DFW Sapphire Lounge opening, Avianca LifeMiles ~2.5cpp, BA↔Iberia Avios combining, Chase's refusal to honor miscoded Paze transactions, and the Bonvoy Ta'aktana Komodo 80% devaluation.Points Wire Daily lands in inboxes every morning at 7am ET. 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