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Cashback vs Travel Points

Credit-card rewards: straight cashback or travel points — which pays off more?

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Cashback is simple and honest — a percentage of every purchase handed back as cold, spendable money. Travel points play the long game, stacking miles that can turn into flights and hotels worth far more than their cash value, if you play them right. Is flexibility or maximum value the better reward?

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🪙 Cashback

Value
Predictable
Effort
Zero

Travel Points

Value
Higher ceiling
Effort
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Cashback

#59 / 78

1500 ELO

Travel Points

#60 / 78

1500 ELO

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