Earn miles while saving and paying for college | Coffee Break Ep31 | 10-28-24 | Podcast

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In today’s coffee break, we’ll talk about how to earn miles while saving for, and paying for college. There are mileage earning strategies for contributing to college savings, paying for college, or paying towards student loans.

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Earn miles while saving and paying for college

(00:57) – Use rewards credit cards to buy “gift of college” gift cards

Read more about earning miles for college here: https://frequentmiler.com/miles-for-college/

(02:00) – Best options for buying Gift of College gift cards

(05:40) – Best online option for buying Gift of College gift cards

Visit GiftCards.com here

(07:30) – Use either of above to earn welcome bonuses with ANY card

(08:11) – The Great Double Dip for earning while saving for college, and then again while spending for college

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Music Credit – Beach Walk by Unicorn Heads

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What's up FM?

Double dip? Don’t you mean triple dip? 1)buy giftcard.com gift card via portal/card linked offers; 2) use the giftcard.com gift cards to buy gift of college gift cards via portal; 3) then pay tuition with another card and self reimburse. Shouldn’t that work?

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JJ24

On the podcast, you guys referenced meeting spend on large SUB of $20-30k by buying GoC gift cards. Isn’t there a chance that AMEX in particular would claw back the SUB by buying gift cards? Or where you referring to other card issuers?

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Jerry

Same question here, I haven’t followed Amex’s policy closely, but in the past, I would buy $6k of visa GCs using my Everyday card to take advantage of the grocery store bonus, before “sock-drawer”-ing the card the rest of the year. Earlier this year, after doing this, I got a letter telling me the points were being clawed back for violating their terms.

Would GoC gift cards not be considered cash equivalent as a Visa GC is?

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Barb

Please expand on paying off student debts with these gift cards. Thanks!

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Phil

Was the online version with no fees taken away? Or are you calculating the fees being a wash because of the online cashback for giftcard.com?

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Dima

That only lasted for a day or so, then giftcards.com ‘fixed the glitch’

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Randy

That died quick

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ECR12

, do you use the NewYork state program? I cant find any info on the NYSaves.com site saying they accept “Gift of College” gift cards.

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