I just noticed this offer on my Starwood Preferred Guest Card. Spend $75 get $10 back from Wholefoods Market. Buy $75 GC Get $10 back Sell to Plastic Jungle @ 91% + TopCashBack @ 2.5% = $4.96 profit + 75 SPG points Or to Cardpool if you have not maxed out yet @ 91%  + TopCashBack @ Read More

I have received a few requests about me Chasing The Points and what am I chasing? Fly my parents on an all paid vacation to Asia in 2014 Take smaller trips in the continental US until the big Asia trip Take myself through a grandiose vacation of Asia Make money The make money portion has Read More

Welcome to the new site! I have migrated to a new host and platform for Chasing The Points. In October 2012, I signed up with GoDaddy for a domain to blog about my experiences chasing the points. I originally set up shop using Blogger because of the ease of use and free services offered. As Read More

I purchased a few hundred dollars worth of gift cards and learned two very expensive lessons. The gift card I purchased I thought was a phenomenal deal. It was listed 9% off the face value, 2% back for buying, and then 2.5% back for selling. I had calculated they would buy the card at 87% Read More

For fun, I broke down my spreadsheet some more to only display gift card churning. On average, my return is about 95% of the gift card value and I have spent about $180 after cash back with purchases over $4000.   Cardpool has the highest return because I maxed out the 4% back with them Read More

Since dipping my toes into manufactured spending, I am having a difficult time ‘creating’ SPG and US Airways points. Both programs earn at 1x, but all of my Chase cards have some sort of bonus multiplier either through quarterly, permanent like Sapphire 2x on Dining and Travel, or the Ultimate Rewards mall. What makes SPG Read More

Many blogs and credit card points earning junkies like myself have business credit cards because of their lucrative bonus multiplier at certain vendors (office supply). For those that do not have access to a business card or have cards that only do 1x like SPG/SPG Business, here is a quick way on how you can Read More

In my previous post about Office Max, I had mentioned that Office Max pulled Home Depot and Nordstrom gift cards, it turns out they were just out of stock. They’re back now! I unfortunately won’t be able to churn any more cards with them as I hit my limit. I might try and be creative Read More

In my previous post on Plastic Jungle rates, I said it was not a very good time to sell on Plastic Jungle. Two months later, we are in the same situation again. This time, Plastic Jungle won’t even accept Target and rates to popular vendors that I have sold many cards like Shell, BP, and Read More