Million Mile Madness: What I bought and sold
Background: Million Mile Madness was the mad quest to earn a million points in one month. Throughout March, I did everything I could to earn as many points as possible while keeping within my...
Google challenges PayPal, Amazon Payments, and others with innovative new version of Google Wallet
Google is in the process of rolling out new features to Google Wallet that will bring them in direct competition with PayPal, Amazon Payments and others. With the new version of Google Wallet, you...
GiftCardMall returns to cash back sites
A couple of days ago, GiftCardMall suddenly disappeared from cash back portals. I had listed GiftCardMall as one of the best ways to buy $500 Visa cards in the post "Best options for buying...
40.5% off everything at Kohl’s
UPDATE: Code BLOSSOM15 is no longer working. Kohl's charge card holders can still get 30% off with code SAVE30, but it is no longer possible to get 40.5% off in total. Until May 22,...
Is the new Club Carlson 10,000 point promo mattress-run worthy?
Club Carlson recently announced their new summer promotion: stay two nights and get 10,000 bonus points. There's no doubt that this is a nice bonus if you plan to stay two nights anyway. The...
Million Mile Headaches: Lowes, Round 2
Background: Million Mile Madness was the mad quest to earn a million points in one month. Throughout March, I did everything I could to earn as many points as possible while keeping within my...
Best options for buying $500 Visa gift cards
Recently, Visa and MasterCard gift cards became great tools for earning points and miles thanks to the new ability to assign PINs (see "Gift card PINs"). It's now possible to buy gift cards and...
Bye bye Plastic Jungle
Today, Plastic Jungle shut down their shop. They sent an email to all of their customers announcing that they would no longer buy and sell discount gift cards directly from and to consumers. Instead...
Hilton Horrors!
An incomplete reservation. Bottom tier elite status. No free breakfast. No free internet. Would I survive? A few weekends ago, I was scheduled to visit Washington DC for the Freddie Awards (Thursday), the...
Million Mile Headaches: SunTrust
Background: Million Mile Madness was the mad quest to earn a million points in one month. Throughout March, I did everything I could to earn as many points as possible while keeping within my...
5X everywhere dies again
The pace of change in the miles & point world is staggering. The most recent big change is with the latest and greatest way to earn 5X everywhere. There was to sign up...
5X everywhere without gift cards, part 3: Everything Else
This is the third of a three part series showing how you can earn 5X everywhere without gift cards. In the previous posts I showed how you can earn 5X Ultimate Rewards points and...
10% off Amazon & Lowes, how to get Citi Forward, more…
A number of interesting tidbits have been piling up lately, so rather than covering a single topic I'm simply going to give a rundown today of things on my mind... Amex Financial Review Gary,...
5X everywhere without gift cards, part 2: ThankYou Points
At FTU in DC last weekend, I presented "You can still earn 5X everywhere." Many of the tips I presented involved reload cards, gift cards, and Bluebird cards, but I also showed how you...
