Plastiq promos end Monday. Last chance for no fee utility payments, and 1.99% fees...
Plastiq, a bill payment service that makes it possible to pay almost all bills by credit card (mortgage, rent, professional fees, etc.) has been...
The NEW Deal of the Year: Preparing for Discover Apple Pay and $2,000
UPDATE 9/18/2015: Discover's Apple Pay promotion now explicitly excludes gift cards. Please see details here.
Discover’s top execs have gone completely crazy. Either that or...
Should I bet on Choice?
In March, I wrote that the Chase Amtrak card was no longer being offered to new customers. This was disappointing because the credit card...
The promo of the year lives on
UPDATE 9/14/2015: Updated experiment results listed below
This year’s best promotion has little to do with airline miles or hotel points. Instead, it comes from...
Re-dipping my toes into reselling
One of my earliest experiments with reselling came in 2012 when the British Airways shopping portal offered 36 points per dollar for first time...
Necker Island: 557,000 miles in the bag, 180,000 miles on the way, and my...
My Virgin Atlantic account currently shows a balance of over 557,000 miles. With most programs, I’d be pretty happy about that. In this case,...
Amtrak Guest Rewards 2016 — Better than expected. My take and recommendations.
Last week, I travelled with family and friends to a number of national parks: Arches, Bryce, Grand Canyon, and Zion. We used Amtrak points...
My wife scored another 70,000 points. I got a rock.
For the past 6 months I've been happily earning two extra points per dollar on all purchases with my Citi Forward card. Those two...
Yes, shared ThankYou points can be transferred to miles
One of the best features of Citi’s ThankYou Rewards program is that anyone can share points with anyone else. Most other major programs have...
470,000 points after $48K spend
UPDATE 10/1/2015: Please note that the 30K SPG offers described in this post have expired.
In the post, “319,000 points after $33K spend” I wrote...
Bet You Didn’t Know: Citibank’s New Online Bonus Spend Tracker
By Julian, author of Devil’s Advocate...
It feels a little weird to say this, but Citibank's been crushing it lately. Not only have they made enormous...
Chase Ink 5X? Send check to self? Pay credit card bill? Combine payments? Is...
This morning, via Frequent Miler's Quick Deals, I posted a new Plastiq credit card bill payment offer: Pay Utilities by credit card for free. ...
Pay Utilities by credit card for free
Plastiq is a card-based payment service that allows consumers to use credit cards to pay bills where credit cards are not normally accepted. Common...
Dealing with sticky Staples gift card problems; Matching SPG 30K; status matching forever; more…
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