Increasing rewards beyond 50X
Last month 1800Flowers ran a promotion that made it possible to earn 50 Southwest Rapid Rewards points per dollar with each order. This was exciting for a number of reasons including the fact that...
How to cash in your PayPal My Cash cards when PayPal freezes your account
Image this scenario: Suppose a blogger you know had been buying PayPal My Cash cards at a certain three letter drug store and paying with a card that offers 5% cash back at drug...
Citi Prestige vs Premier vs Preferred
Lately I’ve had a bit of a crush on my Citi Prestige card. I signed up for the card in September in order to take advantage of both expiring and new benefits to the...
Staples free $20 ePromo card with $100 eGift card purchase
Valid through 12/20/2014. $20 ePromo cards are good only 1/2/15 – 1/31/15. Buy a Staples eGift card (which will be valid for use at any time) and get a $20 ePromo card valid only...
Staples offers gift cards for sale: Kohl’s, California Pizza Kitchen, more…
Valid through 12/15/2014 or 12/18/2014 (depending on the type of gift card):
Staples is offering $100 Kohl’s e-gift cards for $90 (found here).
Also available on sale:
Many denominations of California Pizza Kitchen gift cards for 20%...
An analysis of the Virgin Atlantic 90K offer
Note: This is a slightly updated re-publish of a post from August, titled “Will the real Virgin Atlantic offer please stand up?” Bank of America recently re-introduced a signup offer for their Virgin...
30 points per dollar, but I’m still waiting for more
A few weeks ago, I wrote “How to feed the hungry and fly for free.” In that post I showed how to donate 74 boxes of fruit or nuts from 1-800-Flowers to a food...
Target, spend $75+ today, get 20% off next week
Valid today only (Saturday, December 6): A reader found the following ad at Target: Terms: Your $75 purchase must be made in a single transaction in stores on 12/6/2014 between store open...
US Airways 60K-ish offer
Update: The version of this offer that gives 10,000 anniversary miles is for US Airways Dividend Miles elite members only. There have been numerous reports of non-elite members being automatically denied when applying for this...
Serve Student Edition?
Several times in the past I’ve written about the American Express Campus Edition card. Most recently, I wrote: Exercising the Amex Campus Edition card. This card can be bought and reloaded at Barnes &...
Cyber Monday!
I’m trying something new with this post. If all goes well, this post will grow as deals are discovered throughout the day. Many Cyber Monday deals have been announced before Monday, but my guess...
Gifting your way to a Southwest companion pass. Experiments in progress
UPDATE 12/1/2014: The offer that this deal was based on has expired earlier than advertised. The advertised offer said that code RR57 was good until December 31, but it turns out that the code...
Up to 25 miles per dollar at Sears!
Today through 11/24/2014, the AAdvantage eShopping Portal is offering 8X at Sears. This is stackable with other offers… This stacks with the portal’s winter promotion. For every $175 you spend through 11/24/2014,...
REDbird questions answered
Note: As of October 13, 2015, the Target REDcard (REDbird) can only be loaded with cash in-store at Target. Gift cards and/or debit cards no longer work to load REDcard. For more info, see: Here...
