Chasing the Points
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This Has Not Been A Good Month For Me
The First Store
I’m officially calling a deal dead and it’s cost me nearly 20% for the gift card churn. I was fully expecting a handsome portal pay out and it
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,
Gift Card Churning To A Science
I wanted to review a few things that I’ve done in the recent weeks in gift card churning and how interesting how things have evolved in a very short period
How To Further Reduce Your United Miles Cost
I hope I was able to open your eyes in your effort of buying cheaper United miles through gift card churning.
Further, there are two more ways to lower the cost
My Way Of Buying Cheaper United Airline Miles
I started this post in December, 2014 asking a question if you would buy United Airline Miles at 1.8 cents a piece. It’s pricey, I know. You would need to
Barclay’s UPromise Has An Increased Sign Up Offer Again
Back in March, I applied for the Barclay’s UPromise credit card where you spend $1000, you would receive $100 as the sign up offer. The same offer is back now.
Chase Ink Plus Sign Up Bonus Will Increase to 60k, Do Not Sign Up Now If You Can Wait
National Small Business Week is May 4 to 8. During that time, Chase increased the sign up bonus supporting Small Business Week to the Ink Plus to a 60k sign up
I Think I Need To Reapply For The Chase United MileagePlus Card
About 6 months ago, I decided to close out my Chase MileagePlus Explorer card. Only 2 months ago, I’ve been thinking I made a mistake closing it. The United devaluation
Comparison Shopping Sites Complain Googling Is Driving Them Out Of Business I Say They Are Wrong
There’s a fascinating article on Wall Street Journal about an anti trust case building up where comparison shopping sites like Nextag, BizRate and LeGuide, are losing money based..
Shopping Directly With The Retailer Sometimes Does Not Make Sense
When we were in Charlotte for #FT4RL over dinner, a reader, Bret, asked me a great question. He asked me if there are any lessons that I’ve learned with the
5x Is Not 5x Everywhere
You already know that 5x earnings in miles is different than 5% in cash because 5x in miles that value depends on your needs and how your valuation. For instance,
One Chasing Mall Points Tool Will Go Away
I learned today from Doctor of Credit that Cashback Monitor added a history table of the data they’re scraping. This is awesome news! I’ve been wanting to set it up since
Retail Arbitrage Goes Mainstream
Trevor on Tagging Miles, Big Habitat, and I were in a discussion about this article that was featured in the Wall Street Journal: Retail Arbitrage. It’s something that Tim has done
Evolve I Loved You When You Were Free
Now that the news of Evolve has gotten around with all the fees and limitations, its use was less and less. Then they said they would allow a higher limit,
Selfishly I Am Glad Club Carlson Devalued
Last week, Frequent Miler broke the news of Club Carlson devaluing when a reader noticed the small blurb at the end of the statement. I wouldn’t say I was ready to sign
Apologies If You Missed An eBay Deal
Last week I wrote about using Kimono Labs and scoring an eBay gift card deal. If you were relying on it, you might have missed out on an awesome deal earlier
More Ideas Using Kimono Labs
If you liked my post quickly finding a deal on eBay, here are some ideas that I plan to use for Kimono Labs:
Download my sales rates on Cardpool and Giftcard
FT4RL And Notorious B.I.G. Influenced This Post: if you don’t know, now you know
This post is a departure from my usual manufactured spend stump and I am not sure why it didn’t formulate in my mind until now. Maybe it was after listening
Quickest Way To Find A Gift Card On Sale On eBay
The Tool:
I can’t take any credit for finding this tool that I gave a quick glimpse. All credit goes to Andrew Wise founder of Life, Tailored. He and I met
You Should Consider This Checking Account Even With Their Low Limits And Fees
Bank of Hawaii offers a debit card whereby you will earn 1 Hawaiian Airline miles per $2 spent. Originally, you could only earn points via “credit” but come April 1,
Forecasting Is Always Imperfect
I learned in high school that in a true false question scenario where the question has “always” it usually is false. As an example, “True or False: Chasing The Points
In Case You Didn’t Know About People In This Hobby – They Are Entrepreneurs
Just wanted to say one word: “wow.” In the last two weeks after chatting and meeting with everyone, there’s one underlying, simple thing I wanted to mention that people might
Don’t Do My Stupid Mistake – Applied For The Wrong Darn Credit Card
Before we began 2015, I thought about my next credit cards and what to close and open. I actually wound up changing the plans and product changed my Sapphire Preferred