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Just wanted to give a shout-out to “Yubier” from Lakewood, NJ for offering and giving his time to take me around NYC during my 9 hour layover on Thursday-it was nice meeting you!

Today is my last day in Brazil

Thank G-d there were no more terrifying situations after the day I arrived…

I spent most of the time here with a group of fellow MBA students and professors from my grad school meeting up with numerous local business executives and visiting our sister business school in Curitiba.

I also got to catch up with many old friends from S. Paulo, thanks to the ever-hospitable Basch family. (Thanks!)

Finally, I got to spend a couple days at an absolutely stunning and amazing island called Florianopolis (rightfully so, the locals call it Ilha Mágica, or the Magic Island) and I am quite sad that I don’t have more time to explore more of it. It is right up there with Foz do Iguacu and Rio as absolute must see attractions in Brazil, and its much more off the beaten path.

I’ll be stopping off in NYC for some 9 hours on Thursday on my way back to Cleveland and my summer semester of MBA classes…

Tchau!

This should be combinable with the $10 off each way coupon.
$50 Voucher Linky
-Book round trip travel by 06/01 and start traveling no later than 06/14.
-Voucher good for travel between 09/05 and 10/31.

Update: DEAD!
Coupon Linky

Don’t want to open a new google account-just open a new buy.com account and save $5 off $50!
Coupon Linky
Be sure to use this when ordering some of today’s great buy.com deals!

New Google Checkout users save $10/order!
This is for 2 1GB sticks of PC2-5300 667MHz 200-pin DDR2 Notebook Ram.

RAM Linky

$20 Rebate Linky

New Google Checkout users save $10/order!

6 GB Pocket Hard Drive-$19.95

120 GB Ultra-Portable Hard Drive-$89.95

160 GB Ultra-Portable Hard Drive-$119.95

500 GB External Hard Drive-$138.95

New Google Checkout users save $10/order!

McAfee Internet Security Suite 2007

$30 Upgrade Rebate(Requires proof of ownership of any norton/mcafee product)

$30 Rebate Linky

Offer Linky
-Offer requires purchase by 05/31 and travel by 06/13.
-Not valid for travel on Fridays or Sundays.
-You must use an AMEX for the discount
-Use your Business Amex card for a 3%(Delta, Starwood Amex, etc.) or 5%(Jetblue Amex) additional statement cash rebate.

As I let you guys know over 2 months ago, there is a new treo for sprint that finally has an internal antenna!
755p Cnet Review Linky
This treo adds built-in push-email and IM support, a more stable version of bluetooth, a 320×320 high-res screen, and 128MB RAM.
Unfortunately it only accepts mini-sd cards.
According to cnet the cost is $429.99 outright or $279.99 with a 2 year contract.
Apparently, at least according to the sprint website the 755p is $579.99 outright, or $279.99 with a 2 year contract.

I know that Jetblue has had some problems since their February meltdown, but this news shocked me…
News Article Linky

One of the numerous uses of starpoints is the ability to transfer points into airline miles at a 20,000 starpoints=25,000 miles rate.

Cathay Pacific is arguably the best airline in which to transfer points to.
Note that Cathay Pacific has no US based credit card, so the Starwood Amex is the absolute best method to earn Asia miles from credit card spending.

People have been asking for months to help clarify the highly complicated Cathay Pacific Asia Miles program, so here’s a start.

The confusion stems from the fact that the program is very different than normal US based mileage programs, but its primary value is owed to that uniqueness.

First of all, about the airline, Cathay Pacific.
-They operate with their hub in Hong Kong.
-They are part of the Oneworld (AA, BA, JAL, Qantas, etc.) Alliance.
-They consistently win awards for their top-notch business and first classes, and even economy is much better than US based airlines.

Cathay Pacific has 2 programs, the Marco Polo club and Asia miles.
Marco Polo club is only for recognition for frequent fliers. If you are just transferring starpoints you will never need to worry about the Marco Polo Club, so just ignore it.

US based mileage programs charge based on the country of flying. If you want to go from New York to Tel Aviv or Los Angeles to Tel Aviv on Continental it will be the same 70,000 miles in coach or 100,000 in business/first.
At the same token, Los Angeles to Hawaii and New York to Hawaii will always be 35,000 miles.

Asia Miles charges based on the distance of the flight. For regular mileage tickets there are 7 mileage zones.
Mileage Zone Chart Linky
Here’s how it works:
First go to the great circle mapper to research the one-way distance of a flight.
For example type in ORD-LHR(Chicago/O’ Hare-London/Heathrow) to discover that the distance is 3,953 miles, or that JFK-GRU(New York/JFK-Sao Paulo) is 4,745 miles.
Then plug the number into the Asia Miles award chart to discover that both of those distances will fall into Zone C.
While you use the one-way distance to figure out the zone, the miles shown is the price for a round-trip ticket in that zone.
So a round trip ORD-LHR on AA or British Airways or JFK-GRU on AA or JAL will be 45,000 in coach, 60,000 in business, and 90,000 in first.
These rates, especially for business class, are significantly less than if you have miles on AA, BA, or JAL.

Here’s where the program gets really bizarre:
Look at the distance from LAX-HNL(Los Angeles-Honolulu) and SFO-HNL(S. Fransisco-Honolulu).
Believe it or not, LAX is further from HNL than SFO is. 157 miles further to be precise.
Because of that very small difference though, SFO-HNL falls into Zone B, while LAX-HNL falls into Zone C!

To be continued…

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Sale Dates:
Brooklyn Showroom- This Motzei Shabbos/Sunday May 12/13
Lakewood- Sunday May 13
Williamsburg- Monday May 14
Monsey- Monday May 14
5 Towns- Tuesday May 15
Toronto- Tuesday May 15
Montreal- Wednesday May 16
London- Wednesday May 16
Los Angeles- Sunday May 20

Full details about special savings on every Milano wig linky
1-888-MILANO3

As long as you still have a cassette player this will be better than a FM static transmitter piece of junk…
Cassette Adapter Linky
Use the following $3 off code(Exp: 05/13): AC2092423OFF

Save an additional 5% by using your Chase Continental MC and using the code: Onepass

LAX-Honolulu-$245+ RT On Continental

Save 5% on Delta tickets by using their business Amex.
Save 3% on Delta tickets tickets by using a Starwood or Jetblue business amex…
New York-Denver-$110+ RT On Delta

This article has been corrected, sorry for the mistake!
Enrollment Offer Linky

Offer Linky

The number one frustration with airline miles is that after you’ve racked up lots of miles on an airline, there are no cheap mileage awards available for when you want to go.

The problem stems from the fact that when looking for mileage tickets most websites don’t tell you that you have other airline alliance options.

The real solution that needs to be implemented is an alliance wide award search tool.

The only thing that I know of that currently comes close is ANA’s Star Alliance wide mileage search.

Until then you have a few work-arounds:
1. Call up each partner airline.
2. Join the mileage program of the partner airline that you wish to check and you’ll have online access to their inventory.
3. Call up the mileage desk of the airline that you have miles on and have them check alliance partner availability.(It’s extremely hard to find an agent who can competently check this)

Another caveat is that many airlines also have earning and redemption possibilities with airlines not in their alliance, so be sure to look up on each airline’s website to know what those are as well!

Below is a list of the 3 global alliances, and their primary members.

Star Alliance:
Air Canada
Air New Zealand
ANA
Asiana
Austrian
BMI
Lot Polish Airlines
Lufthansa
SAS Scandinavian Airlines
Singapore Airlines
South African Airways
Spannair
SWISS
TAP Portugal
THAI
United Airlines
US Airways

Oneworld:
American Airlines
British Airways
Cathay Pacific
Finnair
Iberia
JAL-Japan Airlines
Lan
Malev
Qantas
Royal Jordanian

SkyTeam:
Aeroflot
AeroMexico
Air France/KLM
Alitalia
Continental Airlines
Czech Airlines
Delta Airlines
Korean Air
Northwest Airlines

Update: The $150 just posted to my Continental Account without any issues!

Deal originally posted 03/14-12:31 am.
Deal status: DEAD!
Reminder: You must make a purchase with this card by April 3rd to get the $150 Continental money!

Be sure to follow these steps in order to get credit!

Step 1: If you do not yet have a Continental Onepass account Sign up for one here. Otherwise go on to step 2.

Step 2: If you do not yet have a Continental Gift account Sign up for one here. Otherwise go on to step 3.

Step 3: Register for the $150 flight credit offer by entering in your onepass number.

Step 4: PRINT AND SAVE THE PAGE CONFIRMING THAT YOU ARE REGISTERED FOR THE PROMOTION IN CASE YOU DO NOT GET THE FLIGHT CREDIT!

Step 5: Apply for the Continental Consumer Mastercard.

Step 6: You must make your first purchase with the card by April 3rd, so hurry up and apply today!

Notes:
-The flight credit will post 6-8 weeks after your first purchase.
-The flight credit is good for at least 36 months.
-The flight credit can be used online.
-The continental credit card is churnable.
-A free ticket from the US to Israel on Continental is 70,000 miles in coach and 100,000 miles in business-first.
-The card’s annual fee is $85, but you will get 15,000 miles and a $150 flight credit!
-The card gives you 5% off all Continental flights for the first 12 months you have it.
-The card gives double miles for many purchases including all continental purchases.
-The card also allows you to hold the price on continental.com tickets for 24 hours.

5,000 Miles-No purchase or flight required!
Offer Linky

Airport ABCs Linky

Perhaps I spoke too soon about my love for Brazil…

The taxi that I was traveling in from the Sao Paulo airport to the city got trapped in a protest in middle of the highway. Residents from the slums were protesting an earlier police raid by closing down the highway and setting fire to and throwing objects at civilian cars.

We got stopped just 15 feet away from the front of the protest where a car was set ablaze. The incoming traffic trapped us in the thick of the action, where a wooden pole was thrown at my taxi, and shattered the windshield.

I was able to contact my parents (via the Nextel international walkie-talkie that I luckily had set up specifically for the trip) who sent a letter into the Rebbe’s Ohel. Thank G-d, we miraculously escaped from the entire ordeal unharmed…

When the police arrived (after we escaped by driving off the side of the highway) it apparently got even worse, a bomb went off and injured a number of the policemen on the scene…

Here are some newspaper photos of the violence on the main highway connecting the city of Sao Paulo to its international airport.

Front page of the Sao Paulo Newspaper:

Hard Drive Enclosure Linky

Posting from the cleveland presidents club…
Amazon Apparel Sale Linky

Guess what?
I’m going to Brazil today!

The graduate school in which I am studying for my MBA has a sister school in Curitiba, Brazil, and is having a business trip down there during the current break between the spring and summer semesters, so it seemed like a good idea!

While on the long plane ride I hope to write up a couple interesting articles and stuff to post while I am gone.

Also, although everyone who participated in the 500,000 hit promo has received their amazon GC’s a while ago, I have conducted a raffle tonight according to the amount of raffle tickets each participant earned. Find out if you won by checking the site while I am on the road!

Posting may sporadic depending on my connection to the internet.

I will be stopping in NYC for 11 hours tomorrow, and for 10 hours on my return on May 17th.

Update: With just 13 days left until it closes, my local store has all cell phones at 60% off, and Vista starting at just $50!
Hurry before it’s all gone!

Important: There are no returns on any items being sold at closing stores, so USE YOUR STARWOOD AMEX CARDS to take advantage of the included return protection!!!

Hundreds of CompUSA stores are getting ready to close their doors, and that means the sales are getting better!
I just got back from one of the closing stores and found some great deals.
While every store has their own clearance schedule, I saw a lot of good stuff for half off items like GSM and CDMA cell phones and Windows Vista and Word.
Dont expect much customer service-the people staffing the stores so not know how to answer any questions, period.
Call your local store to find out the exact closing date, the closer it is to that date, the better the sales, but the worse the selection!

List Of Closing CompUSA Stores Linky

Update 4-3:50pm: DEAD!!!

Update 3-8:30 am: Finally bookable on delta.com. Total price with all taxes is $529. (With 5% off it’s about $500)

Update 2-1:15 am: Now bookable on Travelocity for $538 including all taxes and fees.
Come on delta, load the fare onto your site already!!!

Update-1:00 am: Not yet bookable on delta.com but it is bookable on airfare.com for about $550 including all international taxes…

This should be bookable very soon…
Reminder: Get a 5% cash rebate in addition to miles/points earned on all Delta tickets by using the Delta Business Amex.
Save 3% by using a Starwood or Jetblue Business Amex.

This is the lowest that I’ve ever seen New York to Brazil go for.
(It’s good enough to make me want to hop on a plane tomorrow-No advance purchase is required!!! Did I ever mention that I love Brasil?)
Valid for travel Monday-Thursday through the end of Delta’s schedule.
Delta now flies this route non-stop!
Should be under $550 after all taxes.

NYC-São Paulo-$434+ RT On Delta

Free Clorox Disinfecting Wipes Linky

Update 8-05/01-7:00pm: DEAD!

Update 7-05/01-12:00pm: Alive Again!

Update 6-04/22: Deal Confirmed-I got my $250 check from Chase!

Update 5-04/06: DEAD!

Update 4-04/05: Alive Again! If you dont see the offer for the $250 cash back at the bottom of the offer page try clearing out your browser’s cache and cookies…

Update 3-03/17: DEAD!

Update 2: Here is an image of the page with the $250 offer.

Update: If you do not see the $250 fine print on the page you may not be getting the deal!
Try clearing out your web browser’s cache and cookies and then try clicking on the link again and you should see the $250 offer!
Also it would be a good idea to print the page mentioning the $250!

Offer Linky

(You can also get to this offer via the chase.com homepage. You may have to refresh the page a few times before the $250 offer comes up.)

Note the fine print on the bottom of the offer page which mentions this deal:

“*You will receive $200 in bonus rebates which can be redeemed for a $250 check. Please allow 6 to 8 weeks after your first purchase for bonus rebates to post to your account. First purchase includes purchases, balance transfers, or any checks that are used to access your account. To qualify for bonus rebates, account must be open and not in default at the time of fulfillment. The bonus offer is valid only for first-time cardmembers with new accounts. Only one bonus per account. Existing cardmembers/accounts are not eligible for the bonus offer.”

I’ve been using Google’s personalized home page since day 1, now they’ve added even more features and rebranded it as iGoogle.
Add ctownbochur.com to your iGoogle page by logging into your google account, going to “add stuff” then “add by url” and entering the feed address: ctownbochur.blogspot.com/atom.xml

iGoogle Linky
News.com iGoogle Article Linky

Free Diet 7-UP Taste Challenge Kit
Comes with free Diet 7-UP, Diet Sprite, and Diet Sierra Mist cans.

Should be bookable within the hour…
Detroit-Phoenix-$80+ RT On Northwest
NYC-Phoenix-$128+ RT On Midwest