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My Thoughts Of Stockpiling Gift Cards

Trevor recently asked “Do you stockpile store gift cards?” and Matt has a good counterpoint on stocking gift cards. After writing my post in March where I discussed the floating ..

Almost There With The 20kChallenge And Outing A Method That I Did For $5000 Spend

Let’s jump right into the spending, I’m a little over 35 days into the challenge and Noah has done a pretty good job of updating everyone on his spend. My

Plenti Does Offer Value Like This One At Rite Aid

My friend Trevor doesn’t think there’s any hidden value behind Plenti, but I like to this promotion helps its case. Not everyone agrees that Plenti has any value to the program.
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I Would Not Write Off Plenti Just Yet

Some people have already written off Plenti, the new American Express loyalty program that has Macy’s, Exxon, and Rite Aid as part of the program partners. That being said, at

You Should Listen To The Deal Mommy On Getting A Convertible Credit Card

I recently came across The Deal Mommy’s post on signing up for a “Convertible Credit Card” and it was an exchange between her and Trevor from Tagging Miles, on how difficult

GiftCard Zen Saves Me On Meeting The Minimum Spend With Discounted Gift Cards

I was targeted for a Citibank Gold AA card, where you spend $1,500 and you receive 40,000 American Airline AAdvantage miles. Then spend $5,000 an additional 10,000 miles will be

Cardpool Limits Online Redemptions Causes An Extra 30 Minutes To The Challenge

I wrote in my first update to the 20kChallenge that eBay saved me a piece of the second $10,000 that I need to spend. I purchased almost $5,000 worth of

Barclay’s Upromise Changes Their Bonus Structure Again

I wrote about the Upromise bonus being increased temporarily in early May. The good Doctor of Credit noticed something I didn’t realize when we went to press:

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My Second Update To The 20kChallenge

Our challenge of who can efficiently spend $20,000 to hit the 150,000 Membership Rewards from the American Express Business Platinum card is ongoing. Last week, I gave a short up..

The $20,000 Challenge First Update

So, last week, we, Money Metagame and Miles Per Day along with Oren’s Money Saver as well as a couple of Twitter readers announced we were going to “race” to spend $20,000 to max

The Second $10,000

I’ve shared this method privately to a few people on spending $10,000 quickly for the AMEX Business Platinum card where you buy $10,000 worth for a cost about $25. The

The retail credit card landscape: more changes coming!

Yesterday’s WSJ article, “Credit Card Firms Reap Rewards of Consumer Brand Loyalty,” had some interesting nuggets in it–some of which I’d heard, some of which I hadn’t:

BP’s cre..

The $20k Platinum Spending Challenge

There’s been a large number of newly minted American Express Business Platinum Cards all thanks to Miles Per Day. I’ve never seen so many comments in one post before. @412,

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