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News and notes from around the interweb:
- Successful use the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau when a bank confiscated rewards. Personally I’d feel a little dirty.
- American Express has apparently doubled its mileage bonuses to 10,000 for referring new old Delta SkyMiles® Credit Card from American Express signups. That goes along with their limited-time push (through June 30 only) awarding 50,000 bonus miles after $2000 in purchases within 3 months and a $50 statement credit after making a Delta purchase within that same time period.
- $350 cash back on 2 year AT&T agreement
- My ‘Coin’ order from November 2013 finally arrived. It’s supposed to let me use multiple credit cards on a single device, of course it doesn’t support chip technology. There are others in the marketplace, I look forward to playing around with several. Somehow I’m less excited than I was when these first debuted publicly.
- Congressional testimony disputes the effectiveness of air marshals. In other words, the sky is blue.
- The Barclays AAdvantage Aviator Red card (which you can no longer sign up for) is now chip and pin (as noted by several readers by email as well, so thanks to all).
- 20% – 25% 2 and 3 night Hyatt stays using promo code SSALEA at a number of properties when you book by June 29 for stays through August 13.
There’s also an increased referral bonus for the DL Platinum card.
Today, WSJ has an article, What Gate Agents Really Think, in the D section. The byline author is Scott McCartney with an emphasize on O’Hare. Two things that l learned, was that United isn’t charitable to flyers and some flyers have adopted the attitude that they are VIP.
I suspect that the chip and pin rumor may be wrong. Just because you are prompted to pick a pin doesn’t mean it will work for purchases. Many cards have you pick a pin so you can get cash advances at atm’s.
@DaninMCI
I don’t know if you read the linked article, but the screen shots clearly show the card is Chip and Pin.
The Aviator Red is not true Chip+PIN. The CVM list for the Aviator Red Card is as follows:
1: Signature
2: Enciphered PIN verified online
3: Enciphered PIN verified by ICC
4: Plaintext PIN verified by ICC
5: No CVM required
This means that if the POS unit supports Signature, it will prompt for a Signature (supermarket self-check out included). If the POS does not support signature, it will prompt for PIN (first verified online, then off the chip). If the POS does not support any of those methods, it will drop to No CVM (No Cardholder Verification), and if the POS does not support that either, it will fail the transaction.