American Express Sync has brought back Wholefoods again. Buy $25 receive $5 back which is 25%. I’m not sure if I want to buy a $25 gift card and have them write my drivers license number again Read More

Starbucks has a loyalty program where you earn stars for frequenting them. You must register a gift card with them and use that as your payment . As soon as you earn 30 stars in a year, you will be a gold member. After every 12 stars, you receive 1 free item. That free item Read More

With the latest US Airways purchase miles receive 100% miles free through August 31, 2013, I jumped on the deal for the 100,000 miles. After taxes, the miles cost $1881.25 or $.0188/mi. However, my real out of pocket expense from the haul in points and cash lowers that a tiny bit. What you need: Credit Read More

Like the last time I had posted about Wholefoods and an American Express offer there are a few offers that are worthwhile to sign up to gift card churn: Barnes and Noble Best Buy Walmart.com Here are the steps to sign up. After logging into your account on the bottom there is something like: After linking Read More

After finding out that I ran into a fraudulent gift card, I have been spooked. Churning gift cards used to be my niche while chasing the points. I still have to follow-up with both Raise and Cabela’s on the issue. The idea of having my funds frozen, thankfully it’s not a large amount, at $250 Read More

Last night I found out my Chase Sapphire Preferred has been compromised. I made a purchase in NY during lunch time and towards the end of the evening there was a charge in Georgia. As soon as that happened, Chase emailed me alerting the charge and I had said no it was not legitimate. An Read More

The other week I went into the bank and applied for the United Explorer card and was instantly approved for the 50,000 United miles offer. The credit limit is $4,200 and instead of the Visa Signature card, I have a plain, vanilla Visa Platinum card. Unlike some online offers where if you do not meet certain Read More

American Express found out I had both a Serve and Bluebird account and I wondered which account to close. I called up Bluebird telling them I wanted to close my Serve account to ensure that they close the right account. Instead, they transferred me to Serve and I told the customer service representative to close my Read More

I had posted about what not to do with cash back, after writing that post I did it about three more times. Then I saw a great deal on Raise and bought another card to combine. I had been playing with fire with the gift card churning and TopCashBack. Once I included the Raise purchase Read More