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Hyatt Gift Cards vs Gift Checks

Hyatt offers gift checks/certificates and gift cards to redeem at any property all over the world. The biggest difference is gift cards are mostly limited to North American properties and the Caribbean. Their gift checks are nearly redeemable everywhere in the world. According to their terms and conditions, “The Hyatt Check Certificate may only be Read More

Interesting Gift Card Churning Opportunity

I originally saw Up to $200 Worth of Southwest Points For Buying Marriott GiftCards by The Points Guy and looked a little deeper into churning the gift cards. Before you continue reading the rest of the post, I want to let you know that it’s not worth pursuing. It is more to open the idea of new Read More

New AMEX Sync Offer with DSW

Here’s a great way to make a little bit of money with AMEX Sync and DSW and a bunch of points. Presently, you could sell a DSW gift card for 80% of its value. $50 off $199 is 25% off. Therefore, when you sell the card, you would receive $160 and profit $10 or 5% Read More

App Giveaways

I had posted about giveaways with Olo and FlightTrack Pro, for those who had signed up and posted a comment, check your emails! I still have 5 FlightTrack Pro’s left, leave a comment and a valid email address and the first 5 will receive the codes   Read More

Gift Card Churning – Plastic Jungle Arbitrage

I signed up for the US Bank Flexperks for the sole purpose of gift card churning before I realized that it’s not quite worth the hassle and then retiring. However, I took the liberty to compare the two programs of Flexperks and United Airlines because I still have a couple of cards lying around that Read More

United’s Available Phantom Award Space

Bill on MileValue had written about being aware of phantom awards on United. His post outlined that United would show available business class saver award as being available, but in fact are not available. I found a few instances of the opposite where United is returning results where it is only of only Saver Award Economy tickets Read More

Success With Vcom ATM! Generate points @ $.0049/pt

As originally posted in Interesting ATM’s there is a special ATM called a Vcom where you can pay bills. Reader pier11 and I have tested the Vcom ATM a few times and this is what we’ve come up with: Despite an option to reload a prepaid card, our experience is that you can not load a Read More

Why I Like Paper Statements And What They Can Do For You

Before I retired from gift card churning, I really enjoyed receiving paper credit card statements. Barclay’s credit card statements came on letter sized statements. They also provided return envelopes of the same size. This presented an opportunity for a free envelope to mail the gift cards. For every credit card, I would always elect a Read More

Changes To My First US Airways Redemption

I was so excited to book my first award, that I should have told the agent to place the award on a 72 hour hold. After booking, I showed my friend and asked me how I planned to travel from Hong Kong to Tokyo. I told him that I would redeem a flight using Avios Read More