Ultimate Rewards, Ultimate Confusion: Shopping
This is a quick post to try to clear up one confusing aspect of Chase’s Ultimate Rewards program: shopping How can shopping be confusing? Well, with Chase you can shop at the Ultimate Rewards...
Top 20 Best Value Gift Cards
A new option for meeting minimum credit card spend! On Friday, I reported that one can save money almost anywhere by buying discounted gift cards prior to making purchases. In that post I...
A new prize for the Nook Contest
The contest to Win a Nook continues! Until Feb 14th, all you have to do to enter is add a single line to the ever growing story. Even better, you can enter the contest...
Big Crumbs Amex rebate down to 1.4%
A common method people have used to meet minimum credit card spend to qualify for signup bonuses is to buy American Express gift cards via Big Crumbs in order to put big charges on...
Save money almost anywhere
I’ve received a number of reader emails recently that go something like this: I am about to spend a lot of money at , can you tell me the best way...
Groupon is back!
In my January 21 post, Weekend Update, I noted that Groupon had disappeared from the Ultimate Rewards Mall. Thanks to an alert reader, I'm happy to report that Groupon is back! When I log...
Inking Money
The New Ink Bold credit card from Chase is quickly becoming my favorite points earning credit card. Yes, you read that right: I’m beginning to favor it over the Sapphire Preferred! The reason? The...
Ultimate Rewards Mall Update
As of this morning (Feb 1), there are a number of changes to the payouts from Chase’s Ultimate Rewards Mall for the Chase Sapphire Preferred and Ink Bold (note that when logging into...
Ultimate Rewards News and Predictions
Staples Success! I’ve reported before that it should be possible to get 10 points per dollar buying gift cards at Staples.com. Go through the Ultimate Rewards Mall to Staples.com and then use the new...
MasterCard Easy Savings
I’ve written before about ways to leverage the OPEN Savings program that comes with American Express business credit cards. For example, see Maximize points per dollar at Amazon.com and Triple dip shopping at Barnes...
40X ain’t so bad
Through the Ultimate Rewards Mall, Magazines.com currently offers 40 Ultimate Rewards points per dollar spent. Ever since lovetofly reported on Milepoint that he partially succeeded in double dipping Magazines.com, I’ve been trying to find...
And the winner is…
The contest to Win a Nook continues! Until Feb 14th, all you have to do to enter is add a single line to the ever growing story. Yesterday, though, I announced an interim prize:...
Nook contest update and a new prize!
The contest to Win a Nook continues! Until Feb 14th, all you have to do to enter is add a single line to the ever growing story. Even better, you can enter the contest...
Hacking Hyatt
Buy Hyatt points for 1.59 cents each and get top tier Diamond status in return! Hyatt’s Q1 Promo and Diamond Challenge You’ve probably already heard about the upcoming Hyatt promotion in which you can...
