Limited time: 1.5% credit card bill payment fee (MasterCard only)
Through September 30th 2015, the Plastiq bill payment service is offering a discounted rate for paying new bills with your MasterCard credit card or...
How to convert Discover Cashback into airline miles
Soon, I have no doubt, many readers will be flush with Discover Cashback (see: The NEW Deal of the Year: Preparing for Discover Apple...
Amtrak Guest Rewards credit card review
First National Bank of Omaha has recently taken over and relaunched the Amtrak Guest Rewards Mastercards. Existing cardholders who had the cards previously issued...
Presenting at TravelCon II. See you in Vegas? Dallas? Chicago? Newport Beach?
Travel Summary recently announced a new TravelCon to be held November 7th in Las Vegas. Apparently the prior TravelCon OC was a hit, so...
Kmart 12X Southwest points. 24X double dip possible.
Through September 16, the Southwest Rapid Rewards Shopping portal is offering 12 points per dollar for shopping at Kmart.
On September 1, I ran a...
[DEAD] Possible portal mistake: 100 points per dollar for movie tickets
Marriott’s Shop My Way portal is currently offering 100 points per dollar for Fandango purchases:
If you value Marriott points at around three quarters of...
Can I really buy $500 gift cards with Apple Pay? How can I get...
UPDATE 9/18/2015: Discover's Apple Pay promotion now explicitly excludes gift cards. Please see details here.
Last week, Discover announced that support for Apple Pay would...
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...
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...
