Generally speaking, it does not matter if it’s in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, or Boston MS’ing is difficult. Most large corporations have put in place policies in an effort to curb fraudulent activity.
From a store’s perspective on one example, it could be a perpetrator committing credit card fraud with stolen credit card numbers. Thus, many stores do not allow cash equivalents to be paid with credit. Because of this, manufactured spending in cities is incredibly difficult.
Here is my best advice:
For in person activities:
- Register and fund a Nationwide Visa Buxx card with a Chase credit card
- Use the card at any vendor that offers POS cash back
- Find cheap ATMs besides McDonald’s
- Find unique ATMs like the Vcom at 7-Eleven
- Find places to buyPaypal My Cash cards with credit
- Load these into your Paypal card, but use via Paypal Debit card as Million Mile Secrets has posted about
- Find a Barnes & Noble Campus Bookstore and buy lots of American Express Campus Edition cards — this one is AWESOME in NYC because of the large number of universities that allow B&N to operate the book stores
- Find deals at supermarkets like the other day at A&P or Wholefoods
Online manufactured spend activities that I participate in:
- Buy lots of gift cards and resell and constantly check Gift Card Granny
- eBay and collect eBay Bucks
- Raise + TopCashBack
- Office Max with the OPEN savings before it goes away
- Amazon Payments
- Dabble in reselling retail products, but that is on pause
- For some great tips and ideas check out the blog called Big Habitat it can’t be missed
Some of the online manufactured spend can be done as an expat living overseas if you stick to the electronic gift cards.
If you live in a big city, one idea I have is to check out stores an hour, or an hour and a half, away from a big city. I don’t know if this would work, but would stores in these areas generally be more likely to have VR availability? Would they be more likely to accept credit cards for reload cards and Visa gift cards?
Agreed!
How are you maximizing the AmEx campus edition?
It’s not back today.
Sorry! We should be good now, was transitioning to Saverocity