Tag Archives: Amazon

a blue hexagon with a picture of a shopping cart

Unintended Consequences: Frozen PayPal Account Blocks eBay Bucks Redemption

Posted on by . 19 Replies

Good morning everyone.  A friend of mine sent me an email that his PayPal account was frozen (I didn’t ask why, but I believe it was related to loading PayPal My Cash Cards to his PayPal account).  To add insult to injury, he had $200 in eBay Bucks that were set to expire next week.  If you are unfamiliar with how to redeem eBay Bucks, you must log into your PayPal account to confirm payment, even if your eBay Bucks balance covers the full purchase price.  Long story short, since his PayPal account was frozen, he could not redeem his $200 in eBay Bucks that were expiring next week.

He reached out to me and we brainstormed possible solutions for ways to spend his eBay Bucks.  I had an idea that I could log into his eBay account and use his eBay Bucks by logging into my (unfrozen) PayPal account.  We then brainstormed things to buy on eBay to redeem his eBay Bucks.  His first thought was to buy eBay gift cards, but I told him that in order to redeem eBay gift cards, you need to log into your PayPal account.  That would put him back in the same situation he is in now.  I thought about buying Amazon gift cards and he agreed with my plan.

After I logged into his eBay account, I found a few Amazon gift cards that added up close to $200.  Side note: Amazon gift cards are the only gift cards on eBay that often sell for more than face value (around 8-15% above face value).  The sellers know that people willingly pay more than face value for Amazon gift cards, so they can charge higher prices.

Amazon Gift Card Sold Ebay Listings

Continue reading →

a red and silver card with circles

My Short Term MS Plans with 4 Dead Redbirds (Target Memo)

Posted on by . 90 Replies

Good morning everyone, I’m sure everyone knows about the Target memo (thanks Bill!), but if not, here it is below.  I’m not going to lie, this sucks big time.  I had 4 Redbird Cards (myself, mom, dad, and brother) and Redbird was involved with 95% of all my MS activities.  With the demise of debit card reloads, there is a mass exodus to Bluebird and Serve.  Not me.  I’m not switching to Bluebird or Serve.  There are no Walmarts within walking distance (like my local Target) and I have no interest in driving to Walmart.

Target Redbird Memo

Continue reading →

a woman holding her hands up with a man in front of him

Q4 Credit Card Category Strategy: Do Way Better than 5% Cash Back at Amazon

Posted on by . 31 Replies

Good afternoon everyone, Q4 is among us.  With that, comes new cash back categories for Chase Freedom, Citi Dividend, and Discover It credit card holders.  Let’s go through the list of categories really quickly, starting with the Citi Dividend Credit Card: 5% cash back at Best Buy and department stores.  Most people will probably buy Visa Gift Cards at Best Buy.  I would also like to mention that you can often buy department store gift cards for much more than a 5% discount by shopping on Gift Card Granny.  Macy’s gift cards are 10%+ discounted, Sears gift cards are 6%+ discounted, and Kmart gift cards are 7%+ discounted.

Citi Dividend Q4 Calendar

Continue reading →

a blue rectangle with white text

New AMEX Offers: Amazon (Highly Targeted), Reebok, Lucille’s BBQ and More

Posted on by . 7 Replies

Good morning everyone, TGI Friday!  Doctor of Credit is reporting a *highly targeted* Amazon AMEX Offer is available to some cardholders.  I checked all my AMEX cards and did not have the offer linked to any of my cards (typical of highly targeted offers).  However, I did have the following AMEX Offers linked to my AMEX cards: Reebok, Lucille’s BBQ, Raymour & Flanigan, Rebecca Taylor, and J.McLaughlin.

Amazon AMEX Offer

Continue reading →

a black and white gift cards with a smile

Reader Appreciation Day: Giveaway for 3 $10 Amazon eGift Cards

Posted on by . 149 Replies

Update 9:50pm PT 8/2/2015: After carefully reviewing all the responses, these are my 3 winners.  Reasons: I love Taylor Swift, I love when people try to teach their spouses about MS, and I love Australia (even though I have never been).  Thank you to everyone who commented on this post.  Have a great evening!

  • Elena: Taylor Swift concert at Levi’s stadium! I’ve bought tickets since day 1 in December 2014 and have been waiting and waiting. And now it will finally be here! I’m like a little girl that can’t control her excitement and have no shame admitting I like her and her songs.
  • James: I’m looking forward to teaching my wife more about MS’ing so she can help me!
  • Marc: Looking forward to a trip to Tasmania to see some college friends for the first time in a decade and then to Sydney/Cairns as a gift for my brother’s 30th bday party

Good morning everyone, I hope your weekend is going well.  With the end of July a few days ago, I wanted to take a look at my site stats and see how things are going.  I finished off July with a few good posts and ended up with 104,909 total page views for the month.  That is a pretty good finish, but there is always room to grow.  Thank you to my long time readers for coming back day after day to my blog, I really appreciate each and every one of you.

July Site Stats

Continue reading →