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No More Bluebird Prepaid Debit Loads

As previously mentioned, I was loading my Bluebird with US Bank Visa Buxx and Paypal Debit card. And just like that, I was shut down this morning. The message was very similar to Serve stating to call their account protection services. When I called, the agent asked me what the purpose of the call was Read More

If You Have Plenty Of Time – Buy UR Points At $.005

If you have plenty of time and patience this opportunity could be for you to buy Chase Ultimate Reward points at $.005/point. The Details: First, you need to register your Chase Ink Bold to Plink and choose Staples. Then you must find these gift cards: The pack contains four $30 gift cards with an activation Read More

US Bank FlexPerks Targeted Promo

In July 2013, I signed up for the US Bank Flexperks to take advantage of Plastic Jungle’s new venture of being a B2B (business 2 business) gift card service. In August, I saw Mommy Points post about a targeted offer for 3,500 points for spending $750. I was really upset that I was not targeted. Fortunately Read More

Union Plus Prepaid Debit Card

For those in a collective bargaining agreement, this would be a pretty good manufactured spending opportunity. The terms do not explicitly say how much is needed for the direct deposit, but the chance for a 5.10% APY savings account for up to $5,000 is hard to miss. More details of the card can be found Read More

A Year In Reflection

I was always into making all of my purchases with credit cards and earning the rewards. In August 2012, I stumbled into FlyerTalk and learned all about traveling and ways to redeem points. By October, I decided that starting Chasing The Points would be a great way for me to document my trials and errors and pass Read More

Paypal Now Accepting Prepaid Gift Cards

As I continue to push towards $30,000 on my American Express Starwood Preferred Guest card, I saw this incredibly exciting link while purchasing gift cards on Paypal. Unfortunately, I do not have any prepaid cards on hand to test this out, but as soon as I do I will be sure to follow up with Read More

CVS Self Checkout Changes

Two weeks ago I had posted about how checking yourself out at CVS is better to purchase large amount of prepaid cards because there was less scrutiny. Readers KP and pier11 mentioned that if the purchase is $499 ID isn’t required or a $500 purchase it would have been a similar process as the self Read More

Advice on Selling Gift Cards

Someone searched and stumbled on to Chasing The Points with this query: advice on selling gift cards from American Express account to ABC Gift Cards My advice is to check the running list on Gift Card Churning. As far as selling to ABC Gift Cards, the one thing I did not like was having to Read More

Alternative Vanilla Reload

Paypal Cash cards are made and distributed by Incomm, so the idea of trying to use those cards on the Vanilla Reload site was born. After attempting to use my Bluebird card number on Vanilla Reload with the Paypal PIN I was hit with an error code of 4006 (card not found). There goes the idea Read More