Recently, I was added as an authorized user to my brother’s Chase British Airways credit card so that we can spend $30,000 for the travel together ticket. No thanks to the latest data breaches from Target or Neiman Marcus, credit card companies are watching out for suspicious activity like a hawk and apparently, his spending Read More

In the saddest news that I have, both my account and my sister’s Amazon Payments account has been suspended:   All functionality to the account is lost.     I had used the contact us form and received this email: Greetings from Amazon Payments. To ensure that all parties have the best experience using Amazon Read More

I’ve previously written why I like mailed, paper statements for my credit cards. First, I like that they could target you for bonus points. They provide return envelopes that you could use for gift card churning. In addition, if you churn using money orders you could easily mail in the money order to pay for Read More

Many people have called their credit card companies threatening to cancel their credit card and wound up having their annual fee waived or receive bonus points. Similarly, it’s like asking for a raise at work and it never really occurred for me to ask until I began researching Junkcard and Gift Card Zen. Then the Read More

This is not as exciting or profitable as the last A&P deal. This deal becomes more or less a wash so it doesn’t matter which card you use, but to maximize you want to use a supermarket bonus card like the American Express Premier Rewards Gold or US Bank Flexperks. The promo details: It runs from Read More

You’ve probably seen the latest American Airlines AAdvantage promo called “Feel the love” where they are basically offering 3.33 miles / $ spent. I took some time to post this because I wanted to do a little more analysis instead of posting it immediately. If you want to maximize this offer, you need to spend Read More

Thanks to PF Digest for uncovering in Is the Total Rewards card any good? Plus American Airlines 75K, and free food for a year the list of credit cards from Comenity. If you have any credit cards with Comenity, you can manufacture spend easily paying the Comenity bill using Evolve. For more details on Evolve, you should check Read More

After I drew up the scenario for the restaurants category, I gave more thought into Chase’s Q2 Lowe’s 5x bonus. When you sell your Lowe’s gift card the range is 77% to 86% The best deal that I can think of is asking any of the gift card exchanges to pay out at 92% of Read More

In my post about the Chase Freedom 2014 calendar, I had mentioned that I had not figured out how to maximize  This method would only work if you are trying to buy points as this is a money loser if you use a cashback card. Chase Freedom 2014 Calendar:  Quarter 2 – April to June Read More