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Old January 22nd 12, 04:48 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london,misc.transport.rail.americas
Adam H. Kerman Adam H. Kerman is offline
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Nobody wrote:
On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 16:20:52 +0000, Roland Perry wrote:
at 15:58:30 on Sun, 22 Jan 2012, John Levine remarked:


Why? If you get points for every purchase, why not charge everything
you can? That's what I do.


This does assume you have the discipline to pay off your cards
every month.


Or get a charge card that gives points. But I'm still not in favour of
generating piles of paper and statement entries for what are in essence
petty cash transactions.


My wife got a free trip to Japan last years using the points from
those petty transactions. For that I can deal with a few slips of paper.


You must eat an awful lot of hamburgers. A trip to Japan is probably
worth at least $30k dollars of spending.


And it's not really "free": we all pay for it with inflated pricing.


Not to mention bloated bodies and flabby tummies. But poor diet is
good business for hospitals.