Tag: Merchant Gift Cards
AAdvantage eShopping Triple Miles
The triple mile promotion is just the beginning of the story. Read on for ways to maximize points and savings... This week, the...
GiftCardMall returns to cash back sites
A couple of days ago, GiftCardMall suddenly disappeared from cash back portals. I had listed GiftCardMall as one of the best ways to buy...
Best options for buying $500 Visa gift cards
Recently, Visa and MasterCard gift cards became great tools for earning points and miles thanks to the new ability to assign PINs (see "Gift...
Bye bye Plastic Jungle
Today, Plastic Jungle shut down their shop. They sent an email to all of their customers announcing that they would no longer buy and...
Visa Gift Cards 2% cash back. Today only
UPDATE: During the day, GiftCardMall changed the upper limit of their gift cards from $1000 to $500. This can still be a money maker...
How to use Amex gift cards to buy GiftCardMall gift cards and earn a...
In my recent post "Better than free manufactured spend" I showed that it is possible to make a slight profit when buying Visa gift...
Amex takes away $3K cash back gift cards
But there is an easy workaround. Read on... I've written a lot recently about the ability to buy American Express gift cards and...
The Bluebird Metric
Note: On January 8, 2015 American Express sent out a notice to a large number of Bluebird & Serve cardholders informing them that loading...
The hunt for perfect gift cards, part 2
Last week I described the beginning of my quest to find the perfect Visa gift cards (see "The hunt for perfect gift cards, part...
American Express Gift Cards 2.5% cash back. Today only
Today only (Monday, April 22 2013), the cash back portal, TopCashBack, is offering 2.5% cash back when buy gift cards after clicking through to...
Better than free credit card spend
There are various techniques for "Manufacturing spend." The idea is to spend money on credit cards and get most or all of your money...
The hunt for perfect gift cards, part 1
Early this week I set out to find the perfect Visa gift cards. Now that Visa gift cards can have PINs (see "Gift card...
Bluebird swipe reloads via ATM
Note: On January 8, 2015 American Express sent out a notice to a large number of Bluebird & Serve cardholders informing them that loading...
Learning Amex gift card rules the hard way
Buying Amex gift cards through cash back portals such as BigCrumbs is a great way to time-shift your spending (usually to meet minimum spend...
