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20% off gift cards from American Airlines, Lowes, Southwest, Staples, and many more!

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UPDATE 11:30 PM 11/29/2013: BF20 code is working again (it has stopped working this morning).  Apparently, they'll be releasing new codes each morning. At...

Citi introduces an innovative new way to take away your ThankYou points

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Citibank has a number of credit card and banking products that earn "ThankYou" points.  If you have a Citi ThankYou Premier card, ThankYou...

Best credit card offer ever. Hurry, only first 100 card members qualify

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That's right.  Sign up for the JAL USA CARD MasterCard and you might get a compact desk size calendar.  This is coming from...

60 miles per dollar, exclamations included.

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Holy cow.  60 miles per dollar is a huge portal bonus.  As I reported yesterday via Quick Deals, Magazines.com is now offering 60 miles...

MyVanilla grabs my money and won’t let go

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Wow.  That didn't take long.  In September I reported that my Mio card was being converted to a MyVanilla card and I was afraid...

Lessons learned from Sears 12X and 16X offers

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In early October, Sears ran an amazing promotion through United's MileagePlus Shopping portal.  For two days, they offered 12 miles per dollar for Sears'...

Credit card planning in light of the AA / US Airways merger

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Now that the AA / US Airways merger seems to have cleared the last major hurdle, we need to think about how to prepare. ...

The top five ways to use Sears gift cards

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I often write about ways to get lots of points, miles or cash back when buying Sears' gift cards.  For example, see these recent...

Coin vs. Echo

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This past June, in the post "A new card to rule them all," I wrote about a new credit card device called Echo that...

This, that, and the other thing

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As we head into the weekend, there are a number of things on my mind... Shopping portal holiday bonuses A number of shopping portals...

Re-Plinking Sears

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In my July post, "Plinking Sears," I introduced the idea of double-dipping when buying Sears gift cards by earning both Plink points and online...

Cashing in

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As points-based programs devalue, more and more it makes sense to consider collecting cash instead of points.  I first brought this up a year...

Freedom 4th quarter 5X update

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Every 3 months, Chase offers new categories with which Freedom cardholders can earn 5 points per dollar (up to $1500 in spend).  This quarter,...

Any volunteers?

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UPDATE 3:25 PM EST: Thank you to everyone who has offered their help!  As of now, I'm closing the request for volunteers.  Why?...

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