Sapphire Preferred 50K to 60K, and Freedom 15K offers coming soon
Via an inside source, I’ve learned that Chase plans to offer increased signup bonuses for the Sapphire Preferred and Freedom cards. The expected go-live date is November 16, but sometimes deals like these appear...
Quick Tip: Don’t buy GiftCardMall Visa cards (except as a gift)
I received an email today from SimplyBestCoupons advertising 2% cash back on Visa gift card purchases. That sounds pretty good, right? Even now that GiftCardMall has begun limiting Visa card values to $250 each,...
Anonymous PayPal employee to answer questions
PayPal offers a convenient service for sending, spending, and receiving money online. They also offer the PayPal My Cash card which can be used for manufacturing spend. It’s possible to buy My Cash cards...
Quick Tip: Discover claws back portal purchases made with non-Discover cards
Big Habitat shares a reader report that Discover is clawing back some Discover Deals portal purchases paid for with cards other than Discover cards. In the comments of the post, the same reader says...
Increase Credit Card Spend (and do good) with Kiva and Kivalens
Update 7/29/2017: US Bank no longer codes Kiva as a charity. This post has been updated accordingly.
Kiva is a nonprofit organization that facilitates micro-loans to enterprising individuals around the world so that they may...
Discover’s Deal of the Year: The waiting game strategy
Quick background: Discover is currently running two overlapping promotions: an extra 10% cash back for Apple Pay purchases made through December 31st, plus double all cash back for a year. Each promotion is amazing...
A glimmer of hope for REDbird? No, not really.
American Express sent emails to Serve, REDcard, and Bluebird cardholders today to let them know that they will be taking away the ability to link a new bank account to fund your card. My...
First look at Revolut: Send and spend money globally with zero fees
Thanks to my interest in manufacturing spend to increase credit card rewards, I’m always excited to see new options for moving money around. New no-fee prepaid cards can be exciting too (Remember Redird?). How...
Is the Sears double dip dead for real this time?
Sears used to be one of the most reliable online merchants for portal “double dips”. A Sears portal double dip goes as follows:
Click through an online portal to Sears.com and buy gift cards
Click through...
National is now enforcing 1 Discover cert per rental
My favorite use of Discover Cashback is now severely limited. Discover Cashback can be redeemed for cash or for discounted gift cards. With gift cards, in most cases the savings are small, or the...
Manufacturing Choice. Is it worth it?
Last month I asked “Should I bet on Choice?” Thanks to my Chase Amtrak card (which is now a Freedom card), I had a short term opportunity to convert up to 25,000 Amtrak points...
How to share Chase Ultimate Rewards with friends
Chase Ultimate Rewards is currently my favorite transferable points program. You can read my comparison of transferable points programs here. Unfortunately, Chase will soon lose Amtrak as a transfer partner, but hopefully they’ll add...
AARP Rewards for Good – Any good?
Now that old and young alike have AARP memberships (thanks to their generous $400 discount on British Airways business and first class flights), you might be wondering about those points that show up at...
Free Gogo In-Flight Wifi: FlexPerks offers a terrific new perk for Visa cardholders
The US Bank FlexPerks card is one of my favorite secondary points programs card. The card offers 3X points for charities, 2X points for cell phone, and 2X for gas, grocery, or airline purchases...
