Travel hacking: My personal strategies to score the best travel deals

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7 pointsimartin2k2 comments

I really wish there were a way to get these travel deals or understand the strategies without having to dig through hundreds of forum posts or dozens of blog posts on some of those recommended sites. I appreciate everyone writing about their tricks, but dang -- so much time.

The issue is that these deals and tricks are always changing, and their half-life is related to their access; if a trick is both profitable and well-known it likely won't exist for very long.

Nowadays, most of the best knowledge of tricks in this domain are private anyway. I enjoy travel hacking and the community around it, but it's ruined effort if I post an interesting hack in a public forum (ie FlyTalk), only to have some blogger broadcasts it, thus alerting the relevant company and ending the deal.

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