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Both Hyatt cards have increased welcome offers, and we explain why the personal card's 75,000 point headline is a little misleading since a chunk of it is just base earning you would get anyway. Frequent Miler is reporting that Chase quietly added new terms to Chase Offers warning that abuse may get you excluded from future offers, which leads into a real conversation about where the line sits between an error in your favor and outright fraud. Bank of America is now handing out retention offers through its Erica chatbot, so you can click through your cards quickly without ever talking to a person, though accepting one offer appears to lock you out on the rest. United also has new targeted MilePlay promotions, some of them worth 20,000 plus bonus miles just for getting the credit card and opting into notifications. We close with a real problem on Bilt travel, where a hotel showing $279 a night turned into an $800 plus bill at checkout because resort fees were not disclosed up front, something Expedia's own site does correctly. Let us know in the comments what the craziest abuse story you have heard is.

Episode Guide:

• 0:00 Welcome to MTM Travel 
• 0:24 Hyatt's New 75K Personal Card Offer
• 3:07 The Hyatt Business Card: Who It's For
• 6:34 Chase Warns "Gamers" on Chase Offers
• 8:20 Where Gaming Becomes Fraud
• 11:01 BofA Retention Offers Via Chatbot
• 12:58 A Rough Citi Retention Call
• 14:26 United's New MilePlay Promotions
• 17:29 Bilt Travel's Pricing Problem
• 18:06 The $279 Room That Cost $800
• 23:38 Final Thoughts

Links

• Hyatt business - https://milestomemories.com/world-of-hyatt-business-card-70k-offer/
• Hyatt personal - https://milestomemories.com/75k-bonus-on-word-of-hyatt-card/
• Chase Offers - https://milestomemories.com/chase-adding-abuse-warning-to-some-chase-offers/
• BofA retention - https://milestomemories.com/check-for-bank-of-america-retention-offers/
• MilePlay - https://milestomemories.com/united-airlines-mile-play-promotion/

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