United created a program where they teamed up with Plastic Jungle where you can cash in gift cards for United miles. They claim it’s a “deal.” On the surface, at best it costs 2.7 cents per mile. It’s still about $10 cheaper than buying miles outright. For 3,000 miles, it will cost $112.88 for 3.8 cents Read More

A friend of mine is a small business owner and he approached me today asking for advice on an iMac. It sounds like the computer is an excellent fit for what he wants to do. Since he only has an AMEX Blue Cash and a Bank of America, I suggested he open one of Chase’s Read More

My friend’s boyfriend drives to work daily and spends about $600 a month on tolls alone. What’s awesome about the Chase Sapphire Preferred is the ability to earn 2x the points on all travel expenses. Besides the obvious travel expenses like airline and hotels, think EZ-Pass, rail/bus expenses, or when you are a tourist paying Read More

There’s a new Visa card out there, called Visa Infinite. But it’s for wealthy individuals in Kazakhstan… gold studded with 26 diamonds to the tune of .17 carats. No discussion of what the clarity to the diamonds are Read More

Chase and Amazon teamed up to allow Ultimate Rewards to be redeemed on Amazon before check out. Citi has now done the same with Amazon to use the Thank You points. Eligible Citi cards include all Citi ThankYou Cards, the Citi Forward Card, CitiBusiness ThankYou Card, Citi PremierPass/Expedia Card, AT&T Cards, and Sunoco cardmembers with Read More

In this post I discussed buying US Airways and using the Discover card for $200 + 5% cashback from online purchases. If you were to buy 50k miles, after that cashback, it would result in 1.61 cents per mile. However, there’s a better deal out there! Enter Barclay’s NFL credit card. Use any of the links Read More

I’m starting to see a large in flux of readers to my Walgreens Vanilla Reload post. I can confirm that all Walgreens should now sell it. Your mileage may vary on how you pay for it. Here is a screenshot from Vanilla Reload’s website of all the vendors that sell Vanilla Reload, including Walmart!   Read More

I was first introduced to US Bank’s Visa Buxx from Million Mile Secrets. Its load is limited is to $2000/month. Initial buy fee is $17.50 and each time after to load using your credit card is $2.50. It is best to load $500 each time because the fee would become .5%. Even your 1% rewards Read More

I saw this last night on The Points Guy, buy 50,000 US Airways miles and get 50,000. They will match whatever your purchase is up to 50,000 miles. If I buy 50,000, in total I’d have 100,000 miles and it would cost me $1750 *7.5% tax = $1881.25 That comes out to be 1.88 cents Read More