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About The Points Guy

The Points Guy (TPG) was created for travelers, by travelers. Founded in 2010 by Brian Kelly, TPG has grown from one traveler's passion for points and miles into a leading travel media platform trusted by millions worldwide. Our mission is simple: help people travel better, spend smarter and explore further.Our team — with a combined 400+ years of travel and credit card expertise — covers everything from credit card reviews and loyalty program strategy to airline, hotel and cruise news. We're travelers ourselves, and we bring firsthand experience, deep industry contacts and rigorous fact-checking to every guide, review and recommendation we publish.Editorial independence is core to who we are. While TPG may earn compensation through partner links, our editorial team alone determines what we cover and how we rate it — our analysis is never influenced by card issuers, banks or advertisers.Beyond travel tips, we believe travel is a force for good. Through initiatives like our TPG Awards and partnerships with charities such as Rainbow Railroad, Make-A-Wish and PeaceJam, we give back to the communities that make travel possible.Whether you're chasing your first free flight or optimizing a decade of points, TPG is here to help you get there.

The Points Guy (thepointsguy.com) has 105 customer reviews on The Fair Hearing, with an average rating of 4.2 out of 5.

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Category: Media & Information
Location: New York, New York
Listed on The Fair Hearing: 2026

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Sep 9, 2026

Enough of the Credit Card Offers; How do I maximize use of my points?

Well, I once emailed TPG with a question, and no one responded, which hurts. They said they would respond. Also, there seems to be a super strong emphasis on getting a lot of credit cards. And of course, to reap the benefits of miles credit, you have to spend thousands of $$. Is it wise to encourage all that spending? Isn't this encouraging massive debt? What I want to learn is how to maximize the points that I regularly accumulate; where does that teaching/coaching take place? Why isn't that more emphasized? So, I'm not impressed with The Points Guy — yet. Perhaps I need to deep-dive into their website menus for the instruction. In the meantime, I wish they would put more emphasis on using the points wisely, and less on gaining more points by acquiring more and more credit cards and spending money that some people don't have just to earn points. And TPG doesn't have the risk of non-payment--the consumer does, if they can.

By Timothy D.

Response from The Points Guy· Sep 10, 2026

Hi Timothy, First, thanks for being a part of TPG and sorry to hear you sent in a question that was missed. We do our best to get out as many answers as we can, though you’re right that sometimes there are more than we can get to one-on-one in a generic inbox. However, we do have some things (in addition to guides to maximizing using most of the main types of points and miles I can point you to if searching isn’t bringing them up for you) that I want to be sure you know about as we def want to help you use those hard-earned points. We have a free 10-email series called Points 101 that focuses a lot on using your points and miles – especially in some of the later emails once you get through some of the basics it sounds like you may already know: https://thepointsguy.com/newsletters/points101/ To get some 1:1 help, we offer monthly-ish office hours to our Substack subscribers (there’s a free subscription tier) where you can ask questions and our experts will answer: https://thepointsguy.com/news/the-points-guy-substack And we just did a webinar on finding awards – hope we do more of those, but I bet we can get you the recording if you want to see the one that just happened. Hope all that is helpful – and also totally agree on not spending more on your cards just to chase awards. That’s most def a losing game. But hopefully you can use some of our content on using points and thanks again for being a part of The Points Guy. - TPG Team