Gift Cards
CategoryWhat should you do with old credit cards and gift cards?
Odds are that most of you reading this go through more than your share of credit cards, prepaid cards, debit cards, gift cards, and other sorts of rectangle-shaped plastic. What ..
Outing Another Secret Sauce Because The Deal Is Dying
This past May, a few bloggers and myself participated in challenge towards spending $20,000 on the AMEX Platinum card with the best efficiency and effectiveness. There was some h..
$25 ToysRUs Gift Card with $50 Rite Aid Kids Medicine Spend- $20 in Coupons
Plenti to like. Image via RiteAid.com
I’ve been a quiet Rite Aid stalker since they gave me two free Hyatt nights in Vietnam a couple of months ago. Today they’ve announced
Let’s Play A Game For A Give Away – $50 Gift Card And $20 Silver Serve
Before the portals stopped paying, I was running large amounts of money gift card reselling with one particular vendor. When it stopped, I lost a pretty penny. The other day,
Extract Extra Value When You Manage Through Exceptions
Prior to working in New Jersey I was at a company in New York that has a $10 billion market cap. It was an interesting journey because I started that
Choice Hotels Gift Cards 10% Off on Ebay (18 Others, too) + 2% Cash Back on Ebates
View from room 311, Hotel Bolivar, Rome, August 2014.
Ebay is holding a “Labor Day Frenzy” this weekend with 19 discounted gift cards. Most interesting are the Choice Hotel gift ..
Hyatt Gift Card Steals: 14.5% off, or 24.5% if You’re New To Cardpool
Discount Hyatt Gift Cards are on sale for 14.5% off at Cardpool. You can now get a single Hyatt $50 gift card for $37.75 (or 24.5% off) if you’re new
Do Not Do What I Just Did – Burned A Spot Accidentally
I’ve been having an especially tough 3 months. Things haven’t exactly gone my way and there have been some highs and too many lows. Today was a low point. This
I Have A Love Hate Relationship With Cardpool
When I first started to resell gift cards in late 2012, I began with Cardpool. Then went to Plastic Jungle then back to Cardpool after the Plastic Jungle closure. I
Gyft Giving You Problems? Here’s How To Fix it
Today’s post is in alphabetical order @chucksth, @esthery, @made_by_hugo, and @mileswhip all asked me simultaneously about Gyft’s verification process. I’ve written about Gyft a..
ResellingDO Has Me Creating New Goals
For as long as I’ve been at the manufactured spend game, I’ve been literally chasing the points and cash had been an after thought. Like a couple of weeks, there
Raise Promo Code: Extra 5% off 15 Top Stores Gift Cards Including Rite Aid at 21% Off
Raise has 15 stores on their TAKE5 Promo Code (for an extra 5% off) list this weekend. Check your math as you may do better with promo code RAISE75AF if
Completed The $20kChallenge And Here Are The Results
As promised, my next update on the $20kChallenge is my last one. Completing the challenge was not very sexy because I can put all of the vendors on two hands for
PayPal Digital Gifts Order Failure Solved
Some Background:
Earlier this year, PayPal Digital Gifts emerged as a reseller to gift cards on eBay and it has been nice to have another vendor to purchase gift cards on
Buying And Selling Gift Cards Is Changing And You Need To Pay Attention
I can write about gift cards until your eyes bleed because whenever something comes up I can write about it at my own pace. In an in person setting, I need
Here’s How You Fix Cardpool’s Down For Maintenance Postage Problem
I had waited over a week after creating my orders with Cardpool and kept getting an error message where it said the postage was “down for maintenance” I had checked
3 Reasons Why You Should Not Play The Gift Card Arbitrage Game
I like to tell anyone who reads the blog that they should be buying and selling gift cards for cheap points. I highly recommend it. There seems to be a
GiftCardWiki Taught Me A Lot Starting With Transparency In An Opaque Market
GiftCardWiki Is Awesome Because…
If you go to GiftCardWiki’s Market section, you will see an aggregated amount of data for all of the exchanges, and then some that I have never h..
Useful BankAmeriDeal At Office Depot
I was targeted for a Bank of America BankAmeriDeal for Office Depot last month and I have been thinking “how can I maximize this deal”? The $15 max that you
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 ..
The $10,000 Spend For $25 Is Nearly Over
There have been so many messages that have come across my lap regarding the spend $10,000 at a cost of $25 from this original post. Many more requests have come
I Spoke Too Soon About Gift Card Granny’s Flash Deals
Not too long ago, I wrote about Gift Card Granny’s new Flash Deals and I’ve been keeping an eye on it. It turns out it’s really not as good. Points For
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