[Dead] 5x restaurants with Chase Sapphire Reserve?
Update 7/7/20: Doctor of Credit reports that this died sometime in the past couple of days, so it was apparently not intended. It's anybody's guess as to whether or not Chase will therefore claw...
Swych app shutting down on July 31st
The Swych app is a third party gift card app that has occasionally offered discounts that we have covered in the past. Unfortunately, the app is shutting down for good at the end of this...
Hawaiian Airlines has suspended its shopping portal
This is not new news, but it was new to me when I went to check out the portal this morning: The "Hawaiian Miles Online Mall" shopping portal has closed has of 6/2/20. There are...
Amex Going Clawback-Happy For Grocery Store Spend
When it rains, it pours.
After recent hits to manufactured spending due to both GiftCardMall and GiftCards.com reducing the amount of cashback that can be earned through shopping portals from $60,000 of spend per month...
GiftCardMall no longer selling $500 cards?
We recently reported the news that GiftCardMall has reduced the monthly cap on orders that qualify for shopping portal rewards (from $60K per month in orders to only $2K per month in orders). Unfortunately,...
Wyndham Has Cut Elite Status Earning Requirements By 40%
Wyndham Rewards announced some time ago that they'd be extending status through December 31, 2021. This was good news for those of us who'd already hopped on the status-match-go-round, but it wasn't helpful for...
Discover It Student Good Grades $20 per Year
This is a simple reminder for those with a Discover It Student card to claim your $20 each year for good grades. The process is super simple and takes less than a minute:
Browse to...
Some Chase Accounts Displayed Wrong Information Overnight – Now Resolved
It's not only Hyatt balances that Chase has been messing up.
There were reports overnight that some customers with Chase checking accounts were noticing that money had either gone missing from their accounts or they'd...
Duplicate Hyatt Points From Chase Have Been Reversed Out
Chase giveth and Chase taketh away.
Back on June 19, many people noticed that their World of Hyatt accounts had been given a nice boost in points beyond those which they were expecting.
This appeared to...
Ouch: Plastiq Fees Increasing To 2.85%
The hits keep coming. There was bad news for manufactured spending a couple of days ago when GiftCardMall announced that they'd be limiting the cashback you can earn through shopping portals from $60,000 of...
Some peer-to-peer payments coding as cash advances
A few days ago, Doctor of Credit reported on the fact that some credit card issuers are now charging cash advance fees when sending money to a friend via peer-to-peer payment networks like PayPal or...
American Express Waiving Excise Tax Fees For Membership Rewards Transfers Until End Of 2020
While the American Express Membership Rewards program is an excellent transferable currency when it comes to airline partners, one of its few downsides has been the excise tax fee it charges when transferring points...
Citi Premier Codes As 3x For International Grocery Stores
A couple of months ago Citi announced that they'd be changing the earning structure on the Citi Premier card.
Those changes were originally due to take effect on August 23, with one of the changes...
Q3 2020: Quarterly Bonus Categories For Freedom, Discover, Cash+, Dividend & ABOC
All of the credit cards with rotating quarterly categories have now opened registration for Q3 2020.
We've provided details below of each card's categories from July 1 to September 30, 2020, along with links to...
