In the last few months, you may have noticed I have been writing more about myself because I have been on a road of self discovery. Let’s take a look my own SWOT analysis: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats.   Strengths: I have been buying and selling gift cards for years and I know the Read More

A few weeks ago, I wrote about how using the Barclay’s UPromise credit card wasn’t clear on what and when I made extra UPromise portal pay out using their cobranded credit card.  I was perusing the UPromise portal and decided to look under the “In-Store Offers”.       Generally speaking, the stores listed are not very good Read More

When I was pursuing my master’s in Information Security, I took a class called “Web and Internet Security” and thought it was the best class in the program. One of the topics to securing your network was training your team to thwart social engineering hacks. There was this fantastic TV show that aired at the same time Read More

Without a doubt, credit card applications are tightening up. When I signed up for the $2000 Bank of America promotion, Bank of America was giving crap about my one business credit card and how little activity there was relationship. My friend had to convince the underwriters to approve me a card. It didn’t happen at Read More

There’s a new promotion that American Express is targeting business card holders. If you enroll in the Pay Over Time program you will receive 10,000 Membership Rewards points. This is very little effort just to enroll.         The terms and conditions say it’s a targeted offer, but it includes a bonus ID Read More

The team on Doctor Of Credit does a great job at keeping the bank bonuses up to date. I recently took up the offer for 50,000 American Airline miles offer as I am planning a big vacation and can use as many AA miles as possible. The phone number in that post I am not sure Read More

I love making new discoveries that play into earning a ton of points. It’s like hearing that it’s a snow day from school and now from work. They just never get old! Then there are the discoveries that I find accidentally and do not want to find. These are the ones that are exploitable because of Read More

The other week, I read a post from Freequent Flyer where he wrote “the long con”  and it reminded me of one of my favorite TV Shows, White Collar. One of the lines in the show had discussed “the long con” where the two main characters had a flashback early in their careers together discussing Read More

Stock market analysts like to look at everything and want to connect dots and figure some thing out. There are companies that take satellite imagery of parking lots and try to figure out spending patterns. Then I read this article on MarketWatch about Gap’s analyst rating was being downgraded. Basically, the premise is there has been Read More