Tag: Merchant Gift Cards
How to buy points for free
This is a trick for advanced gift card churners. The trick can be used to help meet minimum spend requirements, earn points, and even...
Apple Savings and Points
So let’s say you finally gave in and agreed to buy your son or daughter a new computer before school starts. Not only that,...
Gift Card Upgrade Results
Frequent Miler Laboratory experiments continue to roll on with a surprising amount of success. In the post “Laboratory Preparations” I described a number of...
Bed Bath and Far Beyond
In my recent post “10% off everything and 7% off everything else,” I showed how one could buy OfficeMax gift cards at a discount...
Laboratory Preparations
High on my Laboratory to-do list is to figure out which merchant gift cards are easily upgradeable. As I discussed in the post “The...
How to finish off gift cards
If you’ve ever owned gift cards, you’ve probably encountered this issue. You use your gift card as intended until you have something like two...
Is Staples’ gift card gravy train coming to an end?
Staples has been an awesome option for buying gift cards online. It has been possible to go through portals such as the Ultimate Rewards...
Extreme savings at Lowes
A while ago I stumbled upon a few FlyerTalk posts by Sam_Goh who seemed to know everything in the world about saving money at...
It’s raining gift card deals
Dad’s must really love gift cards because almost everyone seems to be offering gift card deals right now in preparation for Father’s Day. I...
Save on gift cards at Safeway
Readers Chuck and Bitachu sent this tip my way. Get $10 towards future Safeway purchases when you purchase $50 in participating gift cards. Make...
20% off Lowes and iTunes gift cards
The following offer is valid until June 16th. At Michael’s stores (in person, only), you can buy $50 Lowes and iTunes gift cards for...
Buy Ultimate Rewards Points for less than a penny
Now that Barnes & Noble is back to 10X in the Ultimate Rewards Mall (see “Ultimate Rewards Mall June Edition”), this trick is once...
Sony 30X success
Three weeks ago I wrote about my Sony gift card experiment in which I bought a Sony gift card through the Ultimate Rewards Mall...
What to do with those Sears gift cards…
Last week the Southwest Airlines shopping portal (Rapid Rewards Shopping) offered 15 points per dollar when shopping at Sears.com. I wrote a number of...
