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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…
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…
Which city do you think boasts the world’s largest hotel suite? Dubai? Vegas? According to the Guinness Book of World Records that honor goes to the Grand Hills Hotel and Spa in Broumana, Lebanon. Broumana is about 30 minutes outside…
The credit card affiliate world is a difficult one to navigate for points and miles bloggers. On one hand, the purpose of travel hacking is to “game” the banks to a certain extent. Both credit card churning and manufactured spending…
That title is beyond nauseatingly cheesy, but there’s really no other way to put it. Discovering travel hacking has had a huge impact on where I am right now. Three years ago, I was working in the research department of…
A reader, Jill, sent me a question that I thought was worth devoting a post to. It is especially relevant to those who travel quite a bit for work. When your travel expenses are paid for by your employer, this…
A Twitter follower sent me a message recently that left me pretty envious. She’s been targeted for the 150,000 point American Express Platinum Business card offer. The current public offer for the card is 40,000 points after $5,000 spent within…
Earlier this month, I wrote about the 20 % transfer bonus promotion SPG was running, which is ending today. Typically, SPG members earn a 5,000 point bonus for every 20,000 points transferred to airline miles (essentially a 25% bonus). During…
One of the key benefits of the Chase Sapphire Preferred card has been the annual 7% dividend. It’s paid out annually on all point earnings. This payout wasn’t significant for folks who were using the card for everyday spend, but…
