In my post called Gift Card Churning – Rejection and Gift Card Churning – Rejection – Part 2, where Cardpool and ABC Gift Cards, respectively, would not buy $200 of gift cards from me. Both indicated they were “unable to process.”  It occurred to me that because the card was loaded recently, the attempt to be sold triggered Read More

I had briefly mentioned that I am making money using my Citi American Airlines Visa Platinum Select card as seen below How am I making money with this card? The gift card sites that I buy and sell from mostly accept MasterCard or Visa.  If they accepted American Express, I would be making money with my Read More

After writing several posts on gift card churning and having a page, I wanted to share my thoughts on the favorite sites that I like to sell. Cardpool Pros: First time customer up to $1000 receive 4% of the value of the gift card not 4% back of what you sell Saves paper when printing Read More

As part of my Office Max experiment, I was still waiting to see if my points would post for using the Ultimate Rewards Mall. Purchases using gift cards are eligible for points with the mall. Purchases of gift cards are not eligible in both TopCashBack and Ultimate Rewards Read More

When there was a 20% off sale on Office Max, I jumped on the deal and purchased some small priced items to do Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA). As I began the process to send the package to Amazon, I lost the enthusiasm that I had in the beginning. The loss of luster began with the Read More

Many folks have loaded American Express Serve with prepaid gift cards which still works. However, American Express has clamped that down with tighter controls. You no longer can add and remove cards at will. I attempted to link a third Visa prepaid cards to my Serve account and I was stopped. I received the familiar Read More

Today, there is some bad news. TopCashBack and Plastic Jungle just lowered the rates to 1% I had sent them several messages in early April when I saw it would end April 30, 2013. At the time, they reassured me it would stay at 2.5% and that there could be a change. I held out Read More

It’s now May and here is my performance: Above is my screen shot of my year to date performance to May. Ultimate Reward points creation is by far the easiest due to the generous bonuses in category (Ink Bold), quarterly promotions (Freedom Visa and MasterCard), and online portal. The last time I took a screenshot, I Read More

From Gift Card Churning Advice – Merchandise Credit – Not everyone will buy merchandise credit and here is the story I promised you from Gift Card Churning – Latest Lessons I cannot detail too much information because it would continue the cycle of fraudulent activity, but this is why I would recommend you to if at all possible Read More