Aadvantage eShopping Mall For quite a while Sears has offered 10 miles per dollar for purchases made through Aadvantage eShopping, but I found today that Sears is now down to 6 miles per dollar. ...
When the best laid plans go awry due to too much opportunity…
My intent this year was to go easy on new credit card signups and focus instead on earning elite status, points, and...
This deal is only good through Saturday Feb 25th, so act fast! OK, so this isn’t as good as last week’s similar offer, but hey free points are free points. The idea is...
Buying and selling discount gift cards is a good option if you are looking to increase credit card spending in order to qualify for sign-up bonuses, gain bonus miles or elite status from high...
It’s been long overdue, but I finally got around to updating the Preparing for Miles page on the Frequent Miler blog. This is a permanent page that you can access at any time from...
OK, so this is a little embarrassing. Last night I wrote that it might take a while for Ultimate Rewards Mall points to post if you bought “free after rebate” software in order to...
In January I reported my strategy to buy Delta Platinum status and a million miles. The idea is to use gift card churning and other tricks to spend a total of $110,000 on...
ShopAtHome Using the ShopAtHome cash-back portal, I tested the approach of getting 1.6% back for selling gift cards to CardPool.com. Amazingly, not only did this work, but I received 1.6% of the gift card’s...
Find the best fare or award ticket option with a single search! The Frequent Miler blog tends to focus much more on earning miles than on using them. Like many of you, I...
Recently I was experimenting with various double-dip shopping portal scenarios and found that some of the online stores I was shopping in offered free shipping for ShopRunner customers. I remembered that many people got...
On Thursday I posted details of how to buy “free after rebate” software at Staples and, hopefully, receive thousands of Ultimate Rewards points. The rebate is really easy so this appears to be a...
Big Crumbs announces my failures, and I like it that way. As you probably know, I do a lot of experiments with shopping portals. For example, I’ll buy merchant gift cards for points...
Last month I bought a $500 Walmart gift card on EBay. When it arrived, I was afraid I had been scammed. Read on to see why I bought the card, why I feared trouble,...
This deal is only good through Saturday, so act fast! A reader tipped me off to this over the weekend (thanks!), but I just now got around to checking it out. Sorry for...