Below is a list of some of the best comments for July. The idea behind this series is to say thank you to readers who provide helpful comments and to give other readers a chance to read some comments they may have otherwise missed. Everybody selected will be sent a $10 Amazon gift card (just wait a day or two to give me a chance to send them all out).
Bank Bonuses
- Gadget sharing out of state bank application results. I think this is an under utilized resource page and that’s partly because there aren’t that many data points currently. Another great comment from Gadget can be found here.
- MarcoPolo sharing what counties in particular are eligible. Often this information is only available after starting to sign up for a promotion and I obviously can’t sign up for all of them so it saves everybody time when somebody comments with any location restrictions I don’t have listed.
- Arnold sharing you can get a moving pack with coupons without having to go into a post office. This is useful for that Citizens Bank bonus but moving coupons often have some good stuff in them.
- Yet Another Redditor sharing a lot of datapoints from reddit. It’s hard to be everywhere so I really prefer it when readers post datapoints on this site rather than reddit, but these really helped me try to work out the eligiblity requirements for this bonus.
Credit Cards
- Jeff sharing his experience with Citi’s 24 month eligibility rule and downgrading. This blog is nothing without the datapoints readers shared, when I posted this article that’s all I wanted and this datapoint was super useful in that respect.
Misc
- Jessica asking for advice. This is one of the reasons I love this site, hopefully I am able to help educate people on credit cards so they can make better choices for themselves when they think they have little to no other options.
- ChaseJuggler sharing detailed experience with a test drive offer. Lots of times it’s difficult to know how good/bad a deal is without actually doing it, lots of people give short responses but it’s great when somebody takes a bit more time to give a detailed review/walk through.
- Eric sharing how he stacked a few nice Amazon deals together (and made us aware of one in the process).
- Weedibix sharing some Amtrak knowledge. Really appreciate detailed comments like this, especially when I’m trying to learn about a new loyalty program.
General Comments
This is a new section where we will highlight a reader or two that has just provided general helpful comments (rather than one specifically) for the month. This month goes to Jay!
Our Verdict
Thanks to everybody who wrote a comment on the site for July, if you didn’t get picked this time then hopefully August is your month!
This post seems conflicting with https://www.doctorofcredit.com/product-changing-citi-card-result-new-card-number/
How so?
wait isn’t the top comment for Jay all of the stuff he posted re plat 100k ?
I just picked a random one of Jay’s, but his award is just for his general comments this month including the Plat 100k (I think he won last month for the plat 100k as well).
Gadget is the man!
I think he should seriously consider changing his username to DataPoint 🙂
Congratulation to everyone and especially Jay for being the chose one.
One correction @DOC.
The comment attributed to me was actually posted by MarcoPolo.
Good job everyone!
Opps.