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...
Switching REDbird to Serve, but which one?
Note: As of 10/13/15 the Target REDcard (REDbird) can only be loaded with cash in-store at Target. Gift cards and/or debit cards no longer work...
US Bank to shut down Visa Buxx accounts
As reported by Miles Per Day, it appears that US Bank is discontinuing the Visa Buxx program for existing cardholders. They previously stopped allowing...
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...
Sears nixes portal rewards on gift cards. There may be hope yet.
Yesterday, via Quick Deals, we reported that Sears is no longer allowing portal rewards to be earned when buying gift cards. Previously, many...
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...
Amex gift cards: Is the deal done?
Last Thursday I made a big mistake. I published a Quick Deal before drinking coffee. From past mistakes that were caused by my caffeine...
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...
TopCashBack limits Amex gift card cash back to $200 denomination cards [Developing…]
Earlier this morning I published a Quick Deal stating that TopCashBack was offering 2.25% cash back for Amex Business Gift Cards. Then, I received...
