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Cardpool Surprised Me With The Highest Pricing Tier
The proverbial ink hasn’t dried where my request for higher rates on Cardpool were declined. I am here to report that Cardpool boosted my rates a couple of days ago.
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Hacking the Mile and Points game is not as easy as it seems
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Consider for a moment, that you need to get to Cairo from Washington, DC. Here are your options:
Your shortest path option is Washington to New York to
Merits Of Gift Card Churning
Introduction:
With a lot of new readers, I want to go back to the basics for a little bit. Manufactured spending is a technique used purposely to create spend on your
TaggingMiles Weekly Travel News Roundup: January 30, 2015
The Weekly News Roundup is a collection of headlines from around the internet that caught the attention of the Tagging Miles team. Content on these blogs do not necessarily reflect
Gift Card Churning Pro Tips – Additional Perks Of Being A Gift Card Bulk Seller
Why You Need To Be A Bulk Seller
I have talked about being a bulk seller a countless number of times like the most recent one about Gyft where you buy “loss
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 ..
New Vanilla Reloads in stores
Last month, news broke that Vanilla Reloads are being discontinued, sort of. Vanilla Reload will still be around, but you won’t be able to get the ones with the scratch-off
Struck Out Asking For Higher Rates To Gift Card Churn
Gift Card Sales Are Hot Now
Plenty of people are selling gift cards to the gift card exchanges. Many of the folks who have received gift cards for the holidays are selling
My Gift Card Sales Figures With Cardpool
So we covered GiftCard Zen on my sales numbers and it was a little over $16.5k and I got back approximately 85.5%.
Today, we’ll look at my numbers with Cardpool. My
Pure Speculation: Is Chase Doing Away The Fairmont Credit Card?
I came across Miles Remaining’s post on Hotel Award Charts and thought this was a nice chart to bookmark.
Then I saw the chart for Fairmont and every time I see something
My Gift Card Sales Figures With GiftCard Zen
Now that you’ve learned how to ship and pick the winners, I want to discuss the sales figures that I’ve sold with GiftCard Zen lifetime. Hopefully after writing this, I will
How To Gift Card Churn Like A Pro – Finding The Best Rate
Yesterday’s post covered what I think is the best practice for mailing out your gift cards using USPS. For any gift card churner out there, Gift Card Granny is an
How To Gift Card Churn Like A Pro – Shipping Lesson
With my newfound knowledge from HaleyB in My Way Of Draining Out The Remaining Cash And Gift Card Churn Better, I want to expand and teach you how to gift card
My Interesting AMEX Open Savings Scenario
I just want to throw this out there that I really, really miss the OPEN savings from OfficeMax.com. That deal silently died and I don’t think many people realize how awesome
I Think I Would Have Killed My Golden Goose Because Of A Clerical Error
If you’ve been following along with my recent posts, I’ve tried a different method of emptying out my prepaid cards. I am buying a bunch of money orders with a
Looking back on an awesome 2014 and 6 months of blogging
Last week marked 6 months since our first blog post here at Miles4More! We’ve had a lot of fun with it, and even managed to put together some good stuff.
My Way Of Draining Out The Remaining Cash And Gift Card Churn Better
The other day, I wrote about how I leave two cents on my prepaid cards and talked about using a point of sale system to automatically drain the card out.
Check Your Bank Of America Card – Free Points With This Gift Card Churn
Bank Of America’s BankAmeriDeals is like American Express’ Sync Offers where you need to register for an offer before you use your credit card. I’m not sure when this was
Another Plan That Did Not Go Accordingly
Last week, I wrote about my plan for a price match and how it didn’t quite go the way I wanted it to. Today, I want to let you know about
My 3 Favorite Ways To Use An American Express Gift Card
American Express is tough to manufacture spend. It is not as tough as finding a good deal in New York City, that is the toughest. Using any American Express card
Jump Through Some Hoops And Get A 2 Night Stay At Select Hyatt Properties
Saw this on Flyertalk where the original poster, catonis, wrote about a Rite Aid offer called “Happy You Year” and you can redeem for 2 nights at select Hyatts around the
Literally, My 2 Cents
I absolutely hate wasting money. I hate it even more when I make bone headed mistakes gift card churning. For a cyber Monday deal, there was a Panera deal where
Living A Contradictory Life
I’ve been taking steps to simplify my life because of everything that is going on it makes things tough to keep track, which makes me forget things. When that happens,