How to ensure your portal points
Since I started blogging last September I’ve been a heavy user of online shopping portals that give points or cash back when shopping online at certain merchants. In all of that time, I can...
Staples ups the ante (targeted)
Staples has been giving us so much lately (see “Is Staples the perfect PPM?”) that it’s hard to believe they’ll give more. However, it appears that they want to do just that. Unless this...
Staples keeps on giving
This deal is good until April 7. Eventually I hope to write a post or two that is not about Staples, but as long as they keep giving us freebies I might as well...
Detailed Ultimate Rewards Mall changes
This morning I posted some of the changes I saw in the Ultimate Rewards Mall. In the comments of that post reader HikerT posted a very helpful complete list of changes. Unfortunately, Wordpress cut...
Big (and mostly bad) changes to the Ultimate Rewards Mall
April 1st kicks off with a cruel joke from Chase. Many of the big bonus point offers in the Ultimate Rewards Mall have dropped precipitously. Below are some of my findings this morning when...
Is the Home Depot double dip alive?
Yesterday I declared that I was pulling the plug on the Home Depot double dip experiment. In that post I wrote that a few people who tried buying Home Depot gift cards through the...
Pulling the plug on Home Depot
When Home Depot first began offering 10X through the Ultimate Rewards Mall, the question on everyone’s mind was how best to double dip? Could we go through the mall to buy gift cards...
Is Staples the Perfect PPM?
A while ago I posted a series about the search for the perfect perpetual point machine (PPM). In those posts, I asserted that the following characteristics would make a PPM perfect: The...
Staples Delivers Free Points Again!
This deal is good until March 31.
A few days ago I posted "Sorry, an error has occurred". In that post I explained my disappointment that the Staples site only allowed one copy of Trend...
TopCashBack is a game changer
Recently reader John W tipped me off about a new cash back site named TopCashBack. He had found that TopCashBack offered the best cash back rates for buying and selling gift cards through...
EveryLodge
This is cool. A friend forwarded to me this Techcrunch article about a startup website called EveryLodge. EveryLodge presents a clean Kayak-like interface to help you find flash-sale hotel deals. These are the hotel...
Back to the basics
When I started this blog last September my intention was to give step by step easy instructions showing how to travel for free. I wanted to share what I’ve learned with family and friends,...
Cashback Holics still best despite lousy name
Yesterday I published a competition called "The best portal finder" in which I compared a number of sites that aim to help you identify which portal to go through to get the most points...
Freebies from Staples
UPDATE: You can now buy 10 Trend Micro Titanium Antivirus 1 PC: $35, Free after rebate !!!
Below are a number of FAR (free after rebate) items from Staples this week. If you use a...
