Well, this one is a shocker! In late December/early January, I typed up a post about UPromise on a specific vendor and how you could be paid to shop through gift card churning. The reason why I held off posting it was the cashback from Upromise has landed into eternity of a pending status and Read More
Frequent Miler famously coined the term Perpetual Point Machine, PPM, which is to find a loop to earn unlimited points. Last week, I posted that I will help you, but you need to do the work and this post holds true as I will leave only a handful of clues. The only downside, it’s an unethical goose. I Read More
What I loved about the old Chase Freedom they used to give you 10 points per transaction. They have done away with it. Now, American Express is introducing a minimum number of transactions for a 20 or 50% bonus. If you are coming short and need to hit the 20 or 30 transaction, my suggest Read More
The other day, I had mentioned I hit a small snag on the free after rebates on Newegg, I thought there would be a quick fix to the current script by changing the link and then join up by the Newegg ID number. It turns out that there’s over 800+ pages of active instant rebates Read More
In the comments of Chasing The Points milemadness Secret Revealed, I mentioned a vendor and said there was too much data and tough to work with. During the review process, I discovered that listed rebates and how the product is displayed is fairly easy to retrieve. I am not a programmer, but I am learning to Read More
For February and March, here are my utilized, active cards: As Matt has pointed out, the statement close date is not necessarily the same date that the card issuer will send out to the reporting agency. For the reported utilization on Credit Karma, I have used the statement dates Bank of America Alaska Airlines – Read More
If we count as March 31 as Day 0 for the new cash only policy, in a sense, what CVS has done is like what the new stock exchange, IEX, has done to high speed frequency trading. They leveled the playing field. Here’s an article that is a must read about the IEX exchange. High speed Read More
A reader left a scathing comment in one of my posts. Instead of replying back to it in a comment, I want to break down the post and add additional thoughts. Well, I hope you idiots are happy. No more Vanillas with credit card at CVS. People tried to warn you bloggers that a public Read More
Before today, I was never a user of Delta’s Skymiles program. Therefore, I never signed up for the partnership that Starwood and Delta created called the Crossover Rewards. If you’re targeted and sign up by April 30, 2014, you could earn 5,000 Starpoints! Easier than my standard method of MS’ing Read More
It has been reported that starting tomorrow, March 31, CVS will no longer accept credit cards for all prepaid cards including debit card swipe reloads. The new policy will be cash only for all purchases. While the memo has been circulated as a corporate direction, I don’t expect all POS systems will be updated with Read More
