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.
3450 free points from Office Depot, but I’m not buying
If you have a Chase Ink card that gives 5 points per dollar for office supplies, FAR (Free After Rebate) deals at Office Depot should be pretty exciting. Currently, if you log into the...
5X Daily Getaways… Almost
I bought $1000 worth of Marriott gift cards via Daily Getaways yesterday. As you probably know, each day at 1 PM they are offering a different travel deal through May 11. Some deals are...
Bears, cookies, and miles for Mothers Day
FTD is currently running a promotion in which you can get 1500 Delta SkyMiles per order. To get the deal, go to FTD via this link: ftd.com/deltasky20. It’s possible to optimize this by...
Drop shipping points
I’ve been meaning to write about this for a while, but it kept slipping my mind. Remember when Barnes & Noble was 10 points per dollar in the Ultimate Rewards Mall? During that time,...
Better news for gift card churning
Yesterday I published “Gift card churning gone wrong” in which I whined about a couple of misadventures I’ve had recently in buying and selling gift cards. Well, my friend Natasha at TopCashBack just emailed...
Pay taxes, earn Ultimate Rewards
This is just a quick note before the tax filing deadline: A reader reported via FlyerTalk that you can pay your taxes with Visa gift cards purchased from Office Depot. I reported recently that...
Staples Update
Staples has taken a break from giving us free points: no Free After Rebate items this week. Bummer! However there are a few bits of Staples news and conjecture worth sharing: uPromise: ...
Gift card churning gone wrong
I’ve written a few posts about how to buy and sell discounted gift cards in order to add spend to your credit cards. In general, you won’t make much money from doing this, but...
JC Penney gift cards 25% off today and tomorrow only
I just received an email from CardPool telling me: For the next 48 hours, you can get JCPenney Gift Cards for 25% off! This is a great deal if you’re interested in buying...
Credit card application planning
I’ve been getting lots of requests lately to help people plan credit card churns. I actually enjoy doing this, but I was finding it frustrating that I didn’t have all of the credit card...
How to increase the Ink Bold bonus by 27K
Just two days ago I was approved for the Ink Bold credit card. I already have an old Ink Bold (which I refer to as an Ink Old), but I’ll get another signup bonus...
Bad news for gift card churning
I’ve reported before that it is possible to increase credit card spend by buying and selling discount gift cards. You can see more in the post “Gift cards: buy low, sell high, get cash...
Dropbox increases free space to 16GB!
I love the FREE Dropbox service. When you install it on your laptop it creates a folder called “Dropbox”. When you save files to that folder they are automatically synched to “the cloud”...
Almost too good to be true
Last week, a reader who goes by Stealph on FlyerTalk (and Bringer on MilePoint) alerted me to a new discovery. He had found $500 Visa cards for sale at Office Depot, each with...
