Last week, I had tweeted about a stack of gift cards Really wish I didn’t have to enter this one by one pic.twitter.com/Cywyu2gAo9 — Chasing The Points (@ChasingThePts) May 3, 2015 It was 72 in all, and I finally slugged through it and the entire process took 6 hours. It was literally painful. My shoulders Read More
This post is geared towards people who have a flourishing business. If you open a small business loan with Capital One for $1 million, they will not only knock off 1% of the APR, but they will give you a voucher for a vacation where ever you want up to $12,000 in value. You must Read More
In the last few weeks, there have been a giant flood of cheap gift cards. The secondary markets are flooded from entrants like you and I. A few weeks ago I posted about an Exxon deal. I declared that it was an easy money maker. It’s unfortunate I don’t have a screen shot of Exxon Read More
On Travel With Grant, his friend Nigel posted a PSA (public service announcement) about Macerich gift cards being coded as cash advances, including a purchase at Jamba Juice. I’m not sure if you know, but many tenants in big mall REITs (real estate investment trusts) share their sales with the property owners. Anchor tenants, the Read More
With the Forum around, Matt has a platform set up to build a community of like minded individuals to collaborate and build upon what we collectively learn in the field. If there are usernames that I recognize in the “real world,” in the comments of blogs, on Twitter, any of the forums, or shooting me an Read More
I wanted to review a few things that I’ve done in the recent weeks in gift card churning and how interesting how things have evolved in a very short period of time. Scenario 1 A few months ago, I posted about being efficient with the fraud call and to take a proactive approach. Turns out Read More
I hope I was able to open your eyes in your effort of buying cheaper United miles through gift card churning. Further, there are two more ways to lower the cost basis of earning United miles. The first method, I can’t quantitatively give you results, but if you sign up with MyPoints BonusMail you can Read More
I started this post in December, 2014 asking a question if you would buy United Airline Miles at 1.8 cents a piece. It’s pricey, I know. You would need to value 1 United mile at least $.018 in order to make that kind of purchase. So I looked around what everyone else’s valuation were: Gary Read More
Back in March, I applied for the Barclay’s UPromise credit card where you spend $1000, you would receive $100 as the sign up offer. The same offer is back now. Good until May 31. The link is: http://www.upromise.com/join/creditcard100/?referrerid=LETRBOX100 But I don’t believe it is my referral ID, just their tracking code. Either way, you could Read More
National Small Business Week is May 4 to 8. During that time, Chase increased the sign up bonus supporting Small Business Week to the Ink Plus to a 60k sign up bonus. This is something that Frequent Miler postulated yesterday. A long time friend of mine who has many connections at Chase alerted me that Chase Read More
