Why Chase cancels accounts (and how to protect yourself)
For people interested in earning miles and points, Chase credit cards are awesome. Chase has many of the best signup bonuses available, and with their Ultimate Rewards they have the best flexible points program...
Yes, up to 2450 more free points from Staples!
This deal is good until April 14. This tip is thanks to a FlyerTalk reader who contacted me. File this under “unbelievable, but true”. The same exact product that has been available for “Free...
Big Marriott Savings
You probably already know about the upcoming Daily Getaways sponsored by American Express and the US Travel Association. The idea is that every day from April 9 through May 11, a new travel deal...
The best way to Ink money (revised)
I’ve reported in the past that those with Chase Ink cards (the ones that give 5 points per dollar for office supplies) can profit from buying Visa gift cards at office supply stores. Recently...
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...
