I will be turning off the comments today, May 25 through the end of this weekend. There is a planned server migration and I expect everything to be back to normal on Monday, May 27. If you are receiving a time out on connecting to then you would need to clear your cache/history  Thank you for Read More

In the thread about Gift Cards with PINs on FlyerTalk quite a few people missed this post. I am lucky enough to be close to a 7-Eleven that has the VCom ATM where I plan on testing out a few things. I played around with it the other day and under the “Bill Pay” section Read More

Just for fun, here are Cardpool’s top 20 highest percent that they buy back. Of the 368 different vendors that they buy, 22% of the vendors Cardpool buys at the rate of $.70:   Read More

You’ll have to trust me that they are the same gift card even though I blocked it out, as I have been trying to sell the same gift card relentlessly from here and here. Once I sell out my inventory I will post the uncensored screenshot. I was playing around with Cardpool and noticed this:   Several Read More

For this post, it will be a comparison of GoBank and Bluebird’s electronic bill pay. GoBank requires two days for a payment to be received, but in my small samples, it is generally the next day. If I sent a payment on May 21, American Express actually receives the money and applies  on May 22 Read More

Here are the matches to some of the most popular search terms that referred to Chasing The Points Manufacture Spending American Express – Depending on the AMEX card, it would take different strategies. For instance if you are earning 1x on everything like the Starwood Preferred Guest or Platinum then you may want to read Read More

I had written in Manufacture Spending Roadblock that Gift Card Mall was delisted from TopCashBack. It’s back now!   Read More

It has been 91 days since my last set of credit card applications, and there are not any credit cards that really entice me to apply. The cards that I currently possess: American Express Hilton – $0 Annual Fee American Express Starwood Preferred Guest – $65 Annual Fee Barclay’s US Airways – $89 Annual Fee Read More

This week was a tough one for the manufactured spend and points community. I stumbled upon points.com on Top Cash Back. I am currently in the process of testing out cash back through buying Amtrak points and seeing if I would receive 4% back. If you are using points.com to buy any miles or have Read More