For the last month and a half, I have been going to Office Depot every week. I’ve learned: They take forever to stock gift cards, I have single handedly bought all of their gift cards to resell and they have not restocked. Granted, I cleared out the rack the Friday before Christmas weekend. They had $500 Read More

In my last post, I said I’d go back and try to load my Campus Edition card. Looks like it was just an error by the cashier trying to load my card. I loaded $500, $200 from a Visa gift card, and $300 on my Citi Forward card. I have now liquidated all of my Read More

When I called American Express last month, I found out about the reload limits, $1000 every 28 days, $6000 max per year. In between the last time I wrote about it and today, I received $10 for opening the Campus Edition card. I attempted to load my card with $500 because it was after the Read More

Since receiving the American Express Serve card, I have loaded it 3 times and have received 2 different calls from Chase’s fraud department. They must not like how it is posting as “SERVE VIRTUAL ENT INC.” They asked me if the pending transaction at WholeFoods is real, pending transaction to Nationwide [I will write about Read More

If you have purchased any non store specific gift cards like I have been doing, what could you possibly do with all of it? Load the American Express Campus Edition or Target Edition (I have no personal experience with the Target card, but from what I understand it is similar to the Campus Edition except Read More

Serve allows a maximum of $250/month of loads with a credit card and what appears to be $100/day. My load was successful and fee free. However, later this evening, Chase called me and I missed their call. I received an email to call ASAP for potential fraud. I called the Sapphire Preferred and explained to Read More

When I first enrolled for the American Express BlueBird, I also enrolled in their Serve product. My Serve account was held in limbo for about a week on verifications. I called AMEX to find out the status and they advised me that I could only have either the BlueBird or Serve because they are similar Read More

I am a huge avid fan of purchasing things online. Just recently, I have begun to change my shopping habit of checking online portals for extra points, miles, and cash back. It is a completely new habit to check the portals. My advice is to always check out evrewards.com (EV for Expected Value for you non Read More

The other day I wrote about my personal experience of using BigCrumbs.com. Today, I will delve into a little more details on the easiness of buying money and getting cash back in terms of percentages. Bigcrumbs.com (my referral link) is offering 1.75% cash back on the value of the gift card. As a heads up if you Read More