Greg The Frequent Miler
Greg is the owner, founder, and primary author of the Frequent Miler. He earns millions of points and miles each year, mostly without flying, and dedicates this blog to teaching others how to do the same.
Amex Serve to be reloadable at Walmart, fee free
Note: On January 8, 2016 American Express sent out a notice to a large number of Bluebird & Serve cardholders informing them that loading...
When category bonuses trump fees
Now that CVS has stopped allowing credit card purchases of reload cards, many have turned to buying Visa and MasterCard gift cards. These gift...
15X Southwest Rapid Rewards Points at JCPenney
Valid through 11:59 PM EST 4/22/14For two days only, the Southwest Rapid Rewards Shopping portal is offering 15 points per dollar when you click...
Up to 4 miles per dollar for Amex gift cards!
That didn't take long! Earlier this morning I published a Quick Deal saying that TopCashBack had increased their cash back rate for Amex gift...
American Express Gift Cards 3% cash back via TopCashBack
TopCashBack has increased its American Express gift card rebate to 3%. They are also offering the code FPADMIN for fee-free cards through April 29th...
Locking in a flight, stress free
The website FiveThirtyEight (of Nate Silver fame) recently published “When to Hold Out For a Lower Airfare.” In that post, author Kaiser Fung reviewed...
April is Last Chance Amex month
This month seems to be our last chance to take advantage of lots of Amex goodies. Here are the top “last chance” opportunities on...
Preparing for Mother’s Day Miles
My wife recently Tweeted the following question: Points and Mile blogger wife’s dilemma: Do I get flowers because he loves me or because...
Pondering Reasonable Redemption Values
Figuring out the value of airline miles or hotel points is difficult. In fact, I’ve argued in the past that it is impossible (see...
Up to 12 United miles per dollar at Neiman Marcus (and maybe up to...
The United Airlines MileagePlus Shopping portal is currently running a special with Neiman Marcus. MileagePlus credit card holders will get 12 miles per dollar...
The new true value of Southwest points
Recently, Southwest devalued their rewards program a bit by increasing the number of points required for “Wanna Get Away” fares. They used to charge...
TopCashBack increases GiftCardMall payout to 1% for Visa gift cards and 1.5% for most...
Valid through: 4/20/2014 (update: Visa gift card payout already dropped to .75%)TopCashBack has increased the rebate for gift cards bought at GiftCardMall up to...
How bad is Delta’s domestic award availability?
“Delta award availability sucks”. If you spend much time in the frequent flyer community, you’re bound to hear that, or something very similar. For...
Staples Gift Cards
This post is intended to be a resource for those looking to buy gift cards at Staples or Staples.com. The table below shows each...
