The other day I had posted about the small bonus points that MyPoints offered and I did not have any data to back up the redemptions. Today, I have the data available for you to see. Each point is worth less than a cent, and most options are not very good. If you trade in Read More

For the first week of #milesmadness, you will see the results posted on the blogs. I did not fare too well. Frequent Miler has posted the recap of what folks did for #milesmadness. The Office Max deal certainly did not help my case. I was holding my bankroll for this opportunity for cheap points, but it Read More

For those who haven’t signed up for MyPoints, it is another online mall like TopCashBack and BigCrumbs, but  pays out in points. What MyPoints offers that the other two do not are clicking through to the site and earning some points:   Points are posted almost instantly instantly after the click. Often times the next Read More

I have to applaud and give thanks to my buddies (at least I like to think that) Personal Finance Digest and MilesAbound for contributing a great deal to the community for applying and trying out different credit card programs. PF Digest has: Toys R Us Dillard’s Fuel Rewards Brooks Brother Banana Republic MilesAbound has: Best Buy Read More

Chasing Mall Points is still under development, progress is slower than I expect. But there is still some actionable/interesting data that has come through: The pull was made 12PM EST and 5 PM EST and we already have changes. The data is  old/new Read More

The other day, I revealed to you about Chasing Mall Points. To add additional value to the community. Here is my next project that I have, a little bit more manual and time-consuming: Finding low cost ATM’s. How do you want the information? Do you want all the ATM locations that I’ve been to with Read More

Without going into too many details, here is my strategy to start the #milemadness: Continue my normal routine that I’ve established Check stores to buy VR Get cashback from Wholefoods See if I can still buy prepaid cards for the gas bonus before this quarter ends – only spent $1000 so far Gift card churn Read More

In November 2013, I traveled to Tokyo and attempted to see about a best rate guarantee for 20% off, but it did not work. I’m not exactly sure if it was the currency exchange. Either way I was disappointed. In May 2014, I will be travelling to Hawaii and tried a BRG claim with Starwood Read More

I want to publicly put HikerT on the spot and give a big thanks for the contributions to the MS arena. What am I talking about? Well, HikerT created this site and it had a nice listing of the data of what you could earn from Chase Ultimate Rewards compared among the cards. I was really Read More