Today, I am going to teach you how I test for gift card churning scenarios, my bread and butter to manufactured spending techniques. I like this method the most because I don’t have to interact with too many people. I’ve done this so many times that I never wrote it down until this post. If Read More

This past week, I did a light round of credit card applications. I signed up for: Old AMEX Blue for 5% in gas, groceries, and drug stores after spending $6500 within twelve months of the card anniversary year otherwise it would be .5% or 1% in the aforementioned categories Fidelity 2% AMEX  for 2% back Read More

I’m not sure when this happened, but Staples has introduced $200 Visa gift cards to be purchased online. Let’s play around with some numbers. We’ll look at 5% back cards, specifically the AMEX Simply Cash and the Chase Ink line of cards for the 5x in Office Supplies. Also note that if you have the Read More

Reader Ed and I had exchanged a few emails regarding free shipping for gift card churning and what the best way was for him to ship the gift cards. I’ve showed off this packaging and costs $5.80 to ship and the max is 7 stamps: But, Ed found this that’s even better and costs $5.60 to Read More

In the interest of my delayed response: I don’t disclose much personal details on the blog and I like to keep it that way. There are only a handful of people in real life that know about the blog who are readers from time to time. That being said, I have a full time job Read More

I’ve written about two unethical situations: Gift Card Churning – Is This Another Scummy Move? and most recently Unethical, Profitable Gift Card Churning Machine. Both eliciting a good and bad response that I appreciate to see all the views that I might have missed. Before we delve into the why’s let’s review a white hat and black hat Read More

This post is just an update to Chasing The Points milemadness Secret Revealed for the updated script that will combine downloading of  both the mail in rebates and instant rebates. As with last time, I will post the Python script below so you know what you’ll be working with and you won’t have to download a Read More

Hey folks, I updated the password protected #milemadness post that just went live. For those that already have the password, it is the same. For those that have not received it, below are instructions to receive the password that I copied: Like the last time for a password protected post, I will be doing the Read More

Around this time last year, Plastic Jungle made the announcement that they will become a business to business operation instead of a business to consumer company. I think they were by far the best gift card exchange site. When they were around, gift card churning was the best manufactured spend opportunity available because of the cash Read More