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Do Now (if you haven’t already)

Travel

• Wandering Aramean shares the latest out of DOT, apparently Airline oopsies are still oopsies.
• One Mile at a Time reports that Cathay Pacific first class partner awards may be going away? This would be a big hit to AAdvantage mileage holders — I can’t speak from experience though, because I still haven’t flown Cathay First, its like my Great White Whale…

Manufactured Spending, Portals, and Credit Cards

• Doctor of Credit – 14 things everyone should know about Citi. I particuarly enjoy this series from the Doctor, I’m learning new things each post!
• More from Doctor of Credit, via Saianel – Negative changes are coming to your SunTrust Delta Debit card. Coming 25 July, earning will be capped at 2-4k (depending on type of card), annual fee goes up, and for some, the earning rate will be 1 Skypeso per real peso (or dollar). Ouch!
• Travel with Grant shares a cautionary tail of Macerich Visa Gift Card (and other gift card) purchases posting as a cash advance. Remember to decrease your Cash Advance limit whenever possible.
• Gary shares another way to buy Visa Gift Cards (VGCs), online, even better, you can get them with your name on it.

A Competition to Watch!

• First, Vinh, of Miles per Day decided he’d start a $20,000 reselling challenge, to meet the minimum spend for his AMEX Business Platinum Card (for which he’ll earn 150,000k points, plus the 20,000k points of spend).
• Then Noah of Money Metagame decided he’d throw his hat in the ring.
• Oren’s Money Saver is jumping in the game as well!
• It gets even better, because Chasing the Points is getting involved too!

Speaking of Reselling

• Phil of MilesAbound poses the question as to whether reselling makes sense as a form of manufactured spend… you know what my answer is, because, well, you read TaggingMiles, but, he takes a different approach to it.
• After that amazing 16% cash back from Ebates earlier in the week, BigHabitat learned a little more on how Staples.com screens orders. Apparently 3 orders of iPads is kind’ve a red flag. Who knew? I went fairly big myself, and ironically, my third order had a phone call too (although that third order was for an e-giftcard).
• Doctor of Credit shares the art of portal hacking… I think there’s a whole lot more here if you read between the lines.