It took me a little bit to figure out if I was attending the first ever ResellingDO because I was switching my job and I couldn’t figure out the best way to attend. I don’t remember how the conversation started, but in speaking with Miles Whip he talked about taking Amtrak down and doing a same day turn Read More

Gift Card Granny added a new feature. Can you spot it?   If you saw the Flash Deals, you are correct!   I’m not sure when it went live, but I just saw it. It is good timing because it’s not often I go to Gift Card Granny because I have bulk rates and generally Read More

I wrote in my first update to the 20kChallenge that eBay saved me a piece of the second $10,000 that I need to spend. I purchased almost $5,000 worth of physical gift cards when they had the 5x eBay Bucks bonus going on and this helped me hit the $500 per quarter in the eBay Read More

I wrote about the Upromise bonus being increased temporarily in early May. The good Doctor of Credit noticed something I didn’t realize when we went to press: participating Upromise Dining Restaurants (previously 4%) eligible purchases from participating travel partners through Upromise.com (previously only 1%) Here is the current bonus structure when you use your Barclay Upromise Read More

Our challenge of who can efficiently spend $20,000 to hit the 150,000 Membership Rewards from the American Express Business Platinum card is ongoing. Last week, I gave a short update to our challenge which consisted of me announcing that I ordered about $16,000 worth of gift cards.  Many of you know already know my modus operandi Read More

TD Bank offers a Visa credit card call First Class and you would earn 3x on the points if you spend it in dining or travel categories. Along with that, there is no foreign transaction fee for an $89 a year annual fee with the first year waived. As a sign up bonus, you could Read More

Way back in January, I wrote about the benefits of being a registered gift card bulk seller. At the time of writing, I was in some tier with Cardpool that offered a small bump in rates compared to the bulk and I was assessed a 5% electronic gift card redemption fee. Following that, in February when Read More

This is news to me, so I thought I’d pass it along. We all want to make sure we earn as many points as possible, especially with every day spending. Verizon Wireless services count as a 5x category in the Chase Ink series of cards as they fall under cellular phone service: Earn 5X points per Read More

So, last week, we, Money Metagame and Miles Per Day along with Oren’s Money Saver as well as a couple of Twitter readers announced we were going to “race” to spend $20,000 to max out our American Express Business Platinum cards for the full 150,000 Membership Rewards. Let’s just say that Cardpool and Giftcard Zen are going to get Read More