With my newfound knowledge from HaleyB in My Way Of Draining Out The Remaining Cash And Gift Card Churn Better, I want to expand and teach you how to gift card churn like a pro and we’ll start with the logistics. Haley wrote: There is an even bigger flat rate envelope for $0.15 more in postage Read More
Canceling My Sapphire Preferred
There is no doubt that the Chase Sapphire Preferred is the best personal Chase credit card, and just last month I wrote about keeping it through 2015. I looked over my spending patterns the last six months and it doesn’t make sense to keep the card. Here’s what I wrote about the card: This card is getting tougher Read More
Deal Savvy Or Crossing The Line?
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about a price matching deal using TigerDirect price matching to Newegg. Reader Hua left the comment: I like the price protection provided by Chase on the CSP and some of their other cards… They just send a check for the difference. I actually wound up calling Bank of Read More
What You Need To Know About Chasing The Points
This week marks the big one year anniversary that I have joined Saverocity and there’s been a large influx of both new and old readers and I want to make sure you know all about Chasing The Points, the blog, not the act of chasing the points. Thanks Doc, for the new visitors! From the Read More
What I Have Been Doing Recently
As I’ve previously mentioned, you need to follow your favorite blogger. As bloggers in the credit card arena, at some point, our content will intersect. It is inevitable, but there is still so much out there Today, I want to do a “putting the money where the mouth is” type of post of what I Read More
My Interesting AMEX Open Savings Scenario
I just want to throw this out there that I really, really miss the OPEN savings from OfficeMax.com. That deal silently died and I don’t think many people realize how awesome it was. The premise was, if you spend over $250 in one purchase you receive 10% off from American Express. While buying gift cards Read More
Fidelity AMEX Becomes a 5% Card But Up to $500 Purchase
Saw this in my email today and thought it was interesting to see our trusty 2% Fidelity American Express has 5% back in certain categories for purchases up to $500. Airfare Hotels Travel agencies Car rentals Cruises It’s definitely nice to see the Fidelity AMEX boost the 2% earnings to a 5% card Read More
I Think I Would Have Killed My Golden Goose Because Of A Clerical Error
If you’ve been following along with my recent posts, I’ve tried a different method of emptying out my prepaid cards. I am buying a bunch of money orders with a limit of under $300 as that is the max they will sell the money order and leaving $.23 left on the prepaid card. Each money Read More
I’m Loving The Crappy 2014 Miles And Points
Delta: I don’t know about you, but the SkyPesos that Gary from View From the Wing coined (Delta SkyMiles) and Citi Thank You Points are really growing on me. Check out Andy’s posts on the latest changes that hit the 2015 calendar year on SkyMiles: Delta SkyMiles 2015: Agonized, Tantalized and Analyzed Part One — Read More
Hack Hyatt’s Stay More Play More Offer To Something You Want
Thanks to Gary @ View From The Wing I was alerted that Hyatt’s 2015 first quarter “Stay More Play More” offer is live at this link On the landing page you need to enter your Hyatt Gold Passport number: After you enter it, you could see an offer like this: Don’t like it? No Read More