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Current Promo Allows You To Buy American Airline Miles Near A Penny

Seeing that opportunities to gift card churn in your underwear days are limited, I will not be posting too many details about this offer. This post is more an alert that it is available and the corresponding math follows at the bottom of this post. If you’ve been a reader of Chasing The Points for a Read More

Infographic: Distance Based Frequent Flier Program Fun Facts

With the build out the Chasing Mall Points tools (currently still in beta), I have been looking at the tables and here’s a few facts about distance based programs that has been loaded (Qatar Airways, Cathay Pacific Airways, LAN, Malaysia Airlines, British Airways, Japan Airlines, All Nippon Airways, Asiana Airlines, and Virgin Australia):   After you Read More

New Online Portals Surfacing

Has anyone noticed all the new online portals popping up lately? The other week, Virgin America brought out a mall as well. They are offering 500 miles on your first purchase until September 30.   Today, I received an email from Jetblue launching their Trueblue mall: The latest malls have not been using Cartera, but Read More

Free Money At Staples For Using Your Bank Of America Card

I love Bank Of America’s BankAmeriDeals – it’s like American Express Sync and Discover’s Extras. When you use your credit card, the card issuer will reimburse you a certain amount of money for spending a specified value. Today, I received an email from Bank Of America for our favorite office supply store, Staples. Receive 10% Read More

Wall Street Journal: Ebates Bought Out By Rakuten

If my memory serves me correctly, BigCrumbs.com introduced a program called CrumbShares last year and it meant that if you earned cash back through BigCrumbs you’d be earning a piece of equity in the company.   What Are CrumbShares? Each time you earn cash back through BigCrumbs, you’ll also earn an equivalent number of CrumbShares. For Read More

Limited Opportunity For Manufactured Spending Fee Free

I’ve discussed a couple of times about paying tuition here and here. I just stumbled upon an opportunity that just wow’ed me because of the generous policies: Refunds Cardholders may request a refund of  outstanding balances. Upon submission of the  Action Form, remaining balances will be refunded. Refund checks will only be issued at the Read More

Focus Group – Marketing Research On Credit Cards

My sister forwarded me the below. It is with this focus group company my late aunt worked with years ago and they are running a focus group on credit cards: Advanced Focus, a national marketing research company, is seeking your opinions in a marketing research study regarding various credit cards. This study will be taking place Read More

What’s Cooking In The Chasing The Points Kitchen

I like to give a status update to all of my readers on what’s going on in the Chasing The Points kitchen, which isn’t anything like the Breaking Bad lab Work + school is draining What really excites me now is coming up with some web apps helping the points/miles community. The goal of Chasing The Points Read More

Bill Payments DEvolved

Today, we’ve received an email from Evolve Money stating that you can only pay 1 bill payment per month. In effect, if you are using prepaid cards it is $500 a month per biller. Below is an excerpt of the email (bolding is not mine): Due to changes in our risk and regulatory compliance policies Read More