I missed last week with a few posts of what I think are valuable articles to read. So, there’ll be a few more in today’s review: On Wall Street Journal, bloggers earning affiliate income. It’s pretty much how many bloggers make money besides display ads. The American Travel Project has a post on going to Read More
In the world of manufactured spending, there are avenues that I explore that are really grey. Some people find it uncomfortable, others would find it totally within their realm. I wanted to write another reminder on the ethics. Ethics is dependent on each person and is tough to write a set of standards for everyone Read More
In the last few weeks, I’ve received a handful of questions that I hadn’t previously covered in any of the posts and with the Merits of Gift Card Churning I tried to answer many of them. I missed a few and here are a couple of questions that I wanted to make as a separate post Read More
Recently, there was a very good deal for a gift card churn, but the deal is now over. Points were for free. My last two transactions have not posted yet, and I am hoping that they will. If I look through the history of my emails, it should have posted by now. Anyway, to get Read More
I am a US Bank Flexperks cardholder for a little over 2 years, I like the additional benefits the card offers and the bonus categories. It’s interesting to see that they added an American Express version that is virtually identical except there’s the addition of 2x on restaurant spend. Then apparently there’s the Reserve Versions Read More
Having written this blog for a little over 2 years, I forget to go to the basics. Doctor Of Credit does a great job on his blog and reminding me in the comments when I forget to add the better offer. Like your first $1000 in sales with a portal like TopCashBack on Cardpool, you Read More
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. We have updated your pricing to our best tier. Thank you for your continued business. As soon as I saw that email I immediately logged Read More
I have been a long time Chase customer, since at least 2006 and as a Washington Mutual customer before that. During the financial crisis, JP Morgan Chase purchased many of Washington Mutual’s assets. I used to have a WaMu MasterCard and during the Chase and WaMu integration, the WaMu card converted into a generic Chase Read More
Whenever I make purchases on retailers I am not familiar with, I use two cards. They are any of my Chase cards, typically the Freedom, and Citi Forward card. I value Ultimate Reward and Thank You Points more than cash. Yes, there is the opportunity cost where I am giving up at least 1% not Read More
My mom has been a Citibank customer since 2004 and for whatever reason in 2013 without requesting, Citi product changed her Diamond Preferred to a Thank You Preferred. Citi is good with mailing out letters when it is targeted offers. And here is her offer: This offer is for generous categories, but the dollar spend Read More
