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Have you considered monetizing your knowledge? I would pay maybe $100/hour for some advice on how to adapt my current lifestyle and credit card usage to gain m

Have you considered monetizing your knowledge? I would pay maybe $100/hour for some advice on how to adapt my current lifestyle and credit card usage to gain more miles/benefits.

kenneth 9y ago
I help my friends a lot and I'm always happy to chat it through with anyone. That said, no, I haven't looked into turning this into something more, for two reasons: 1) The nature of the game is that the more people play it, the less value it provides. A lot of my success in this is due to obscure opportunities that die as soon as they get too publicized. 2) Turning this from a hobby to a job would take the fun out of it.
saryant 9y ago
I tried to monetize my knowledge of credit card awards. The problem I ran into is that in order to find awards for customers of the same quality that I do for myself, I'd need to charge >$1000 per passenger to make it worth my time. If finding the awards for two people to do a somewhat-complicated trip takes me 10 hours, charging $100 a pop just doesn't make sense.
- sersi 9y ago
  This. I recently redeemed a great trip with a round the world award on cathay pacific (a oneworld multipartner award). It's a really great value and it does save me a lot of money (compared to what I would have been willing to pay for an equivalent trip) but it takes time. - finding the available seats - calling and getting it done on the phone (and finding that Asiamiles can't find the award you thought was available) - making sure you follow the rules so that that specific award works (I needed to book 3 different airlines which became difficult when suddenly one of the airlines I was planning to use didn't have any awards at all anymore) It's fun doing for myself and if I do it for myself, I can quickly evaluate alternatives but I can't imagine doing it for someone else. There are a few services who do book awards for around $250 but a lot of them don't really want to do overly complex bookings.

Have you considered monetizing your knowledge? I would pay maybe $100/hour for some advice on how to adapt my current lifestyle and credit card usage to gain more miles/benefits.

kenneth 9y ago

I help my friends a lot and I'm always happy to chat it through with anyone. That said, no, I haven't looked into turning this into something more, for two reasons: 1) The nature of the game is that the more people play it, the less value it provides. A lot of my success in this is due to obscure opportunities that die as soon as they get too publicized. 2) Turning this from a hobby to a job would take the fun out of it.

saryant 9y ago

I tried to monetize my knowledge of credit card awards. The problem I ran into is that in order to find awards for customers of the same quality that I do for myself, I'd need to charge >$1000 per passenger to make it worth my time. If finding the awards for two people to do a somewhat-complicated trip takes me 10 hours, charging $100 a pop just doesn't make sense.

sersi 9y ago
This. I recently redeemed a great trip with a round the world award on cathay pacific (a oneworld multipartner award). It's a really great value and it does save me a lot of money (compared to what I would have been willing to pay for an equivalent trip) but it takes time. - finding the available seats - calling and getting it done on the phone (and finding that Asiamiles can't find the award you thought was available) - making sure you follow the rules so that that specific award works (I needed to book 3 different airlines which became difficult when suddenly one of the airlines I was planning to use didn't have any awards at all anymore) It's fun doing for myself and if I do it for myself, I can quickly evaluate alternatives but I can't imagine doing it for someone else. There are a few services who do book awards for around $250 but a lot of them don't really want to do overly complex bookings.