Regular readers of this blog will know I talk a lot about giftcard. If I don’t bore you to tears on gift cards, this post may do that, but you’ll see a different take this time with a focus on the finance side. I want to preface this by saying that I’m not a finance Read More

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. There is a promotion this week with June 13 being the last day at Rite Aid for OneVanilla prepaid cards where you can earn 500 Plenti Read More

Remember when I told you how I spent over 6 hours selling gift cards? I had already put into place researching and buying things to speed up the process. It is insane to type in gift card numbers and PINs manually each time. So what’d I’ve done, spent about $100 and too much time for all these Read More

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 this stage of the game, I totally agree with the Devil’s Advocate the redemption options are extremely paltry. Only four locations you can redeem the Read More

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 it is to start up in the world of points and miles when you have no base of knowledge. The premise of the post is Read More

Last week, I wanted to post data about the gift card churn rate amongst a handful of brands and look at how quickly a gift card will sell based off of the vendor and the denomination. It turned out to be a hot mess to which I take full responsibility because I wasn’t sure what Read More

I need to start off that I am sorry I can’t provide all the details I wanted to post about. I had a great idea for this post with a lot of data of how quickly a brand and its denomination would sell. The kind folks at Raise were able to run it first and Giftcard Zen Read More

This post is just a copy and paste from the post about Gift Card Denominations making a difference, but we’re experience a technical difficulty where the bottom half of the post is disappearing. I’m hoping having a separate post will alleviate this. The Directions: I will not respond to comments asking for the password If Read More

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 posted into the account for a total of 50,000 AA miles. Unfortunately, I didn’t take a picture of the offer letter, but you can read Read More