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Yesterday, against my better judgment, I decided to waste 20 minutes of my life driving to the miserable hell hole known as Walmart in an attempt to unload my last set of gift cards. With just three Simon Mall gift…
Shopping portals have pulled American Express gift cards, but some folks may still end up with a bunch of them for one reason or another: Simon Mall accidentally sends an American Express rather than a Visa gift card (which happened…
This was a tough month, with shopping portals pulling American Express gift cards and my general laziness when it comes to manufactured spending. Still, I managed to make a great deal of progress in meeting $82,000 spending requirements. If you’re…
Club Carlson has just announced a pretty generous bonus point promotion for mobile app bookings: Earn 3,000 bonus Gold points for using the app to book a hotel through November 16, 2014. No, it’s not another 50,000-point bonus, but you can…
This isn’t quite as devastating as the news that Amazon Payments is shutting down, but it’s a loss nonetheless: The shopping app Plink has closed it’s doors without so much as a warning. I got an email at 5:00 PM…
One of the toughest things about manufactured spending is keeping track of everything. There are large spending requirements to be met, gift cards to unload, credit card balances that must be paid off to avoid interest fees, and due dates…
The last easy manufactured spending tool is coming to an end: Amazon Payments will be shutting down on October 13, 2014. If you’ve been using the fee-free service for manufactured spending or to meet credit card spending requirements, that will…
I’m in the midst of wrapping up my $82,000 manufactured spending challenge and hit a brick wall today. It appears every shopping portal has pulled American Express gift cards. In addition to searching Cashbackmonitor and Cashbackholic, every major portal (cash…
Recently, I wrapped up a brief series covering the cheapest way to book Hyatt hotels on points. One of these posts dealt with the most efficient way to book Hyatt suites on points earned via manufactured spending. Generally, the best…
Update: The Simon Mall shipping fee has increased to $3.99. I’ve been hearing rumblings for a while now about Simon Malls implementing changes to their Visa gift cards. I assumed this would involve lower limits on the number of cards…
