Manufactured spending
CategoryUse Whatever Credit Card Is Best For Your Purchases
I want to begin and let you know that this post is not in regards to any manufactured spending as you already know which card you need to use. This
Retailers Technology Deployment, Upgrades, And Operations
In 2014, we had some interesting news in manufactured spending. We’ve seen deals that died like CVS going cash only for Vanilla Reloads. Then they strengthened the checking of id..
Hyatt Gift Cards Coming To A Grocery Store Near You
Early last week, Blackhawk Technologies, the company behind ReloadIT, PayPower, GiftCardMall, GoWallet, GiftCardLab, CardZone, their acquisition of CardPool, and a Visa Buxx flav..
Exchanging Gift Cards For Walmart Gift Cards
The team up of CardCash and Walmart has gone live. If you haven’t seen it, you should check it out so you know your options.
The user interface/experience with the Walmart
Beginning On Christmas Walmart To Allow Gift Card Exchange
I recently posted that the gift card exchange with United for miles has come back after a small hiatus. The Associated Press has reported that Walmart will be partnering with Car..
My Evolve Money Confessions
I want to put this out there. I love and hate you Evolve Money! I like how you help pay my bills without a fee and the ability to pay
The New Gift Card Churning Arbitrage Opportunity With Triple Dipping Possible Quadruple As Well
While the site, Gyft, may not be that new, it is new to me and there appears to be an arbitrage opportunity to gift card churn. You know me, I
Important Posts from This Week You May Have Missed
This has been one crazy week! We saw news about an 8% credit card, sadly it’ll be going away next year.
@ChasingThePts Rakuten is removing bonus categories next year, press team
New 5x Kid On The Block But Finding Information Is A Blackhole
Just want to put this out there, thanks to my buddy @ PF Digest for always looking out for the obscure banks and credit cards and inspiring me to do
Exchange Your Gift Cards For Miles With United Is Back
When I first started writing this blog, I wrote about exchanging gift cards for United miles with Plastic Jungle. Then I followed up a couple of times about Plastic Jungle, once
2015 and 2016 Credit Card ReEvaluation
This post is more of the long range plan that I have for my credit cards, hence the long winding road picture. Earlier this year, I wrote about my latest
Is Vanilla Reload Finally Dead?
Many of you may have received an e-mail from American Express about your Bluebird accounts this afternoon. If you have not yet, it is probably coming. Brace yourselves: it’s not
American Express Sync Offer Updates
I’ve written about American Express Sync Offers quite a few times in the last year and half like here, here, here, here, and here and a few other times like
Insane! The 50k Per Month Opportunity We’ve Been Missing
In researching for my next post, I stumbled upon a gold mine. I am not sure how we, a group of highly trained expert manufactured spenders, missed this. We could
Chase Ultimate Rewards Makes Me Nervous
I don’t want to cause any panic, and I want to label this as still developing. You may have noticed that the Ultimate Rewards Mall has been rebranded as “Shop
How To Automate Changing Prepaid Card PIN
In the past, I purposely avoided cards that required you to dial in a number to change the PIN. If I can avoid the phone I will. I was at
Are You Paying Attention To Your Favorite Blogger?
I wrote in the past about how you should pay attention to your favorite blogger, and this post is more of the same. If you haven’t signed up for the
American Express Business Rewards Gold Changes How You Earn
Milecards was the first to report that American Express has changed the way you earn your Membership Rewards using your Business Rewards Gold card.
There’s a few changes, but I w..
Chase Credit Card downgrades
In September I wrote about the disappearing Citi Dividend card that you can only get by downgrading other Citi cards. The article is here, and I’m happy to report that
More Awesome News On US Airways Mastercard
The other week, I posted about unexpected news US Airways Mastercard. There was one outstanding question left about the card: I didn’t have complete details regarding the anniver..
How To Use Your One Time Use Prepaid Cards
This post will be a primer and you will need to be in the Saverocity Forum with Level 2 access to continue the discussion. Comments will be closed to this post
Money Maker On Gift Cards With Chase But Limited To Specific Customers
Redeem 1,850 points for a $25 gift card, the following gift cards are on the 26% sale:
Best Western
Fairmont Hotels & Resorts
Hyatt Hotels & Resorts
Marriott
Ritz Carlton
For ..
What’s Up With US Bank Flexperks?
I received a piece of ‘junk’ mail from US Bank notifying me about their American Express Flexperks edition. I currently have their Visa card and it’s treated me pretty nicely