Earn 300 Plenti points reloading your Green Dot card at Rite Aid
Rite Aid is running an ad this week offering 300 Plenti points when you swipe your Green Dot card and reload at least $50 in a single transaction. Check your local ad to see...
Best practices for increasing credit card spend through prepaid cards
Earlier this week, I published “My winter 2016 approach to manufactured spending.” In that post I mentioned that all 6 of the Serve cards I had been managing were shut down. And, I wrote:
I...
Take 2: Buying miles and delivering flowers
This morning I published “The Rube Goldberg approach to buying miles and delivering flowers.” In that post I listed a slew of 1800Flowers offers that I believed to be stackable. I even proposed a...
The Rube Goldberg approach to buying miles and delivering flowers [Update: ShopRunner not stacking...
UPDATE 1:20 PM ET, 1/28/16: It turns out that ShopRunner free deliver does not stack with mile-earning promo codes. I'm sorry for this mix up! I will publish an updated post shortly.
UPDATE 2;30 PM...
Should you borrow money to get up to 35,000 United miles from Prosper?
Yesterday morning, I received an offer to get up to 35,000 United miles with a personal loan from Prosper. The offer is for 1 mile for each dollar borrowed. Is that a good deal? ...
Quick Tip: iConsumer Double Cash Back rates “already shown”
There has been considerable interest lately in a new portal called iConsumer due to it having significantly better cash back rates than most rivals for many merchants. For example, for Visa gift cards purchased...
My winter 2016 approach to credit card spend
I write frequently about techniques for manufacturing spend. And, occasionally, I write about my own personal approach. Inevitably, though, my approach changes soon after I write about it. The latest big change, of course,...
Bet You Didn’t Know: A New and Improved Staples Rebate Option?
By Julian, author of Devil’s Advocate...
Despite the recent untimely death of Bluebird and Serve for many Frequent Miler readers, it can sometimes still be useful to purchase Visa or MasterCard gift cards at Staples. For...
Credit card junkies: it’s time to apply for Chase Ink.
Doctor of Credit reports that Chase’s dreaded 5/24 rule will be applied to Ink business cards in March 2016.
What is the 5/24 rule?
In the past year or so, Chase has frequently denied applications for...
Low fee $500 Visa gift cards online after rebate (now 1.6% back)
UPDATE 2: A new portal named iConsumer is currently offering 1.6% cash back at GiftCards.com. I tested and received email confirmation the next day.
UPDATE: The cash back rate for GiftCards.com at Simply Best Coupons...
How to get approved for the Chase Ink 60K offer
One of the best credit card signup offers around also happens to be one of the best point earning cards around: the Chase Ink Plus. The current signup offer for this card is 60,000...
Chase Private Client and Sapphire Preferred 65K
In 2012, after setting up an LLC for my blog, I opened a business checking account at a local Chase branch. Since then, Chase has been my primary bank for both business and personal...
Backcountry 18 miles per dollar
Through tomorrow night (1/18/2016), the AAdvantage eShopping portal is offering 18 miles per dollar at Backcountry.com. *Extra miles available through 1/18/2016 11:59 PM ET. Note that recent Frequent Miler Laboratory reports of...
Fidelity FlexPerks? Is the Fidelity Visa Signature 2% card better than we thought?
A couple of weeks ago, I announced that Fidelity’s new no-annual-fee 2% cash back Visa Signature card is now available. Cards offering 2% cash back with no fee are rare enough, but could the...
