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Tag: Merchant Gift Cards

The hunt for perfect gift cards, part 1

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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

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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

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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...

Amex gift cards update

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Buying American Express gift cards online is the first step in one of the most lucrative ways to manufacture spend.  The goal of...

Gift card PINs

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The miles and points community is abuzz with talk about the fact that some Visa and MasterCard gift cards now allow you to setup...

Amex gift card 2% rebate not today

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Quick update: In the recent post "Gift Card Churning Deals" I said that TopCashBack would offer 2% back for American Express Gift Cards bought...

Gift Card Churning Deals

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Lately I've written quite a bit about credit card churning (see, for example, "Million Mile Madness: The big churn story").  Now that I have...

Amex Gift Cards, this and that

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I've reported before that it is possible to get 1.5% cash back via TopCashBack or 1.4% cash back via BigCrumbs when buying Amex gift...

Free money and points from American Express and Sony

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A reader named Colin passed this one along to me.  Until Feb 26, 2013, American Express is offering a $25 statement credit when you...

Free money from OfficeMax

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UPDATE: DEAL IS DEAD. Sort of.  Between 10:30 and 10:50 am EST today (Jan 17), OfficeMax updated their registers to correctly apply only one...

More cash back for Amex gift cards

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TopCashBack now offers cash back for American Express Gift Cards. One convenient way to meet credit card spend requirements quickly is to buy...

Gift card deals from Safeway, Vons, Dominick’s, Randall’s…

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Safeway, Inc. owns quite a few grocery store chains.  According to Wikipedia, they own all of the following: Carrs-Safeway (Alaska) Dominick's Finer...

Double Dipping Data

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Online shopping portals are a great option for earning extra points or cash back for things you would have bought anyway.  Before buying something...

Holiday Giveaway Winners

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Yesterday I announced that I would give away a number of gift cards to lucky blog commenters.  After running the magic random generator,...

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