Meeting minimum spend on an Amex business card
A reader contacted me yesterday asking about the best way to meet minimum spend on her American Express business card. She has $1000 left to spend and wants to buy Walmart gift cards. Of...
Evening News
Nordstrom I went ahead and plunked down over $4200 at Nordstrom thanks to the British Airways 36 points per dollar deal. Just two days later, over 150,000 points already show up as pending! Woo...
Hunting for deals
Yesterday I described how it may be possible to buy and sell items from Nordstrom in order to effectively buy British Airways Avios miles for as low as half a cent each. Please see...
Round trip to Hawaii for $125!
How I plan to turn the Nordstrom 36X opportunity into cheap travel. I’m sure that most readers know of The Point Guy’s recent post “Amazing Deal Alert: 36 British Airways Avios Per Dollar...
And the Kiva gift card 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. Over the weekend, though, I announced an...
How to buy Ultimate Reward points for 1.05 cents
UPDATE: Once you factor in shipping charges, the real cost per point is 1.1 cents. See comments section for details. Barnes & Noble is currently running a promotion in The Ultimate Rewards Mall in...
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...
