Do you stockpile store gift cards?

Increasingly, I’m starting to think maybe it makes sense. Let me give you some background, I keep reading all the great stuff that Chasing the Points is writing about, about how he can get gift cards at pretty decent percentages off, then sell them, essentially manufacturing spending in his pajamas. It’s awfully tempting! But, I’m not going to…

Fulfilled by Sears – A game changer?

Yesterday I wrote Introducing Fulfilled by Sears, another marketplace option similar to Fulfillment by Amazon. Well, while I was researching, it occurred to me that the numbers could work out for something bigger than just standard reselling. The ConceptHypothesis: Could Fulfilled by Sear (FBS) be used to “mint” points as part of a repeatable process? Lets go a…

Balancing Amazon.com's many services

Balancing the Amazon(s)

 Update: In my haste to post this before I boarded a plane, I mis-typed; the 1099 is generated from $20,000 AND 200 transactions.Amazon.com for lack of a better way to describe it, is a veritable powerhouse for manufactured spending. Some of Amazon’s services are very far out there in the blogosphere, with many of the…