As I begin forward with finding a second “home” to sell gift cards with, I could not help, but notice that all the gift card exchange sites have wildly different rates in which they buy gift cards. What does that mean? When gift card churning, you and I will receive better deals from the added Read More

Generally speaking, it does not matter if it’s in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, or Boston MS’ing is difficult. Most large corporations have put in place policies in an effort to curb fraudulent activity. From a store’s perspective on one example, it could be a perpetrator committing credit card fraud with stolen credit card Read More

Two months ago, American Express’s Sync offer had a buy $50 and receive $10 credit to your account at Lowe’s. As many of you know, Lowe’s sell gift cards in store. To simplify the process in store gift card purchases, I highly recommend remembering the gift cards that retain their value the best. It helps Read More

I thought this was noteworthy and a little bit shocking at the same time that the order details posted up to Discover. The cashback/point portals have the order details, but I have never seen it go all the way up to the credit card processor. I was playing around with different portals for cashback and Read More

There’s not many details to this post, but more of a Public Service Announcement. In the Staples promotion the other week, reader Elaine posted that Staples cancelled her order when she ordered an egift card using a Staples gift card. In my experiences, I’ve used Staples gift cards to buy physical gift cards and all the orders Read More

When I first started gift card churning, I sold most of my cards to Plastic Jungle, until they decided to close up shop in the B2C (Business 2 Consumer) realm. I wish I had started chasing the points sooner because they were offering 2.5% cash back after clicking through TopCashBack. When they closed, I moved all Read More

Now that we are in January 2014, if you took advantage of the Staples deal the other week, this is a reminder that you can now use your e-Promo gift cards. They will expire on January 15. I already redeemed mine for eight $25 Nordstrom gift cards. How did you redeem yours Read More

Happy New Year! Since Chase has posted the Freedom 2014 quarterly calendar, here is how I plan to manufacture spend with the card.   Quarter 1 – January to March: Gas Stations Starbucks Starbucks I will not be manufacturing too much spend as I frequent them almost on a daily basis, but I will reload Read More

I love upgrading gift cards because this is where the real money is made when gift card churning. It’s not too often that I am able to do it. I used to buy discount Sears gift cards and upgrade at Kmart for BP or Shell gift cards. Unfortunately, in New York City it is quite difficult Read More