There have been a few posts about playing the store and not the game that lodged into my head. Milenomics posted it once on his blog and again in his interview on Saverocity for #milemadness. We’ve also seen it on MilesAbound where he titles it as his best secret to Manufactured Spending. I will add to Read More

Whenever you open a new checking account, you need to fund it with an initial opening deposit. A lot of banks allow you to use a credit card for this and you can fund anywhere from $100 to $2,000 depending on the bank. This obviously isn’t a scale-able manufactured spending technique as you’ll need to Read More

I’d like to introduce you all to William Charles, a real smart chap, who writes at Doctor Of Credit. After the update on the $200 gift cards on Staples he was the first to see the 6.6% return from Staples via Swagbucks and on Monday his guest post on a neat manufactured spending technique will go live Read More

American Express launched a product called the “My Secure Paycard” and can be found at all Walgreens, Duane Reade, and Rite Aid. From what I can tell, it is basically an American Express gift card that you can purchase up to $500 at a $5.95 fee without the gift card label. It’s not that good of Read More

I tweeted the other day about needing help with the Staples SKU naming convention   Need help with Staples SKU naming convention. NE1 up for the challenge? SKU starts with 0 and 2 = group of SKUs but if 22XXX = SKU — Chasing The Points (@ChasingThePts) May 7, 2014   I had mentioned a Read More

I am stubborn and it does not look like I can hit the $30,000 in spend on my Chase British Airways Travel Together pass, but I will try. I need $20,000 left in spend and am about $10,000 away from the remaining 25,000 miles from the sign up bonus. Regardless, if you follow Amol’s post Read More

A little while back, I wrote about not signing up for more “mainstream” travel cards and I am trying not to duplicate the efforts of MilesAbound  and PF Digest started to look into other retailers’ cards. I signed up for the Neiman Marcus credit card and I am completely underwhelmed. This is my own fault for Read More

Here are several posts that I encourage you to check out because when I read them I was making mental notes: Milenomics has a great chart of airline partners + alliance chart New Wells Fargo credit cards Retail credit cards, as you may know, I am also looking into retail credit cards as well Freequent Flyer Book Read More

Just wanted to update everyone that for the May 10 CLT DO, I, sadly will not be present. I had work obligations that were in flux and have been solidified. In addition, I was recently accepted to graduate school and my orientation is also May 10. I emailed Matt the details to the Unethical, Profitable Gift Card Read More