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My Favorite Credit Cards for Manufactured Spend

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My Favorite Credit Cards for Manufactured Spend

First off, I am not saying that these are the *best* credit cards for manufactured spend, these are just *my* favorite credit cards to use.  With that said, your travel patterns and preferences might be different than mine, so you might have different credit cards you like to use.  I guess I should also state what manufactured spend means to me:

  • Using your credit card for the sole purpose of earning miles, points, or cash back
  • Converting whatever you purchased back into “cash”
  • The amount of “cash” lost during the transactions should exceed the “value” of the miles, points, or cash back you received from using the credit card

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AMEX Offers For You: $50 Cash Back on $250+ Hotel Reservation, Bluebird Savings Account Rumor, and Citi AA Retention Bonus Results

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AMEX Offers For You: $50 Cash Back on $250+ Hotel Reservation, Bluebird Savings Account Rumor, and Citi AA Retention Bonus Results

This is just a quick post before I head down to San Diego for my Miles and Points Meet Up.  If you are close to San Diego and have nothing better to do than talk to a bunch of obsessed miles and points hackers, come join us (link).

Here is a rundown of random travel news:

If you have any Hilton or Hilton Resort reservation in the next 3 months, you might be interested in this AMEX Offer:

Hilton AMEX Offer

Better yet, if you have any hotel travel over the next 3 months, you might be able to score $50 statement credit for spending $250+ with AMEX Travel.   Continue reading →

$15 Statement Credit with $75+ Home Depot Purchase (AMEX Offer), Chase UR Points on IHG Reward Night, and Discover It Q3 Activation

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$15 Statement Credit with $75+ Home Depot Purchase (AMEX Offer), Chase UR Points on IHG Reward Night, and Discover It Q3 Activation

Are you ready for some random miles and points news?  I hope you said yes, so let’s go.  This has been blogged about a few times today, but thought I would chime in anyway.  There is currently an AMEX Offer for You deal where you get $15 statement credit after spending $75 or more at Home Depot.

AMEX Offer HD

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Boingo Preferred Plan for AMEX Platinum, Chase Freedom Refer-a-Friend 20k, and SPG Refer-a-Friend 30k

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Boingo Preferred Plan for American Express Platinum Credit Card Holders, Chase Freedom Refer-a-Friend 20k, and SPG Refer-a-Friend 30k

(Hat Tip to Gary for the heads up on the new American Express Platinum Credit Card Perk)

For those of you with an American Express Platinum Credit Card (Personal, Business, or Mercedes Benz version), there is a new perk available.  American Express and partnered with Boingo to offer free unlimited WiFi at over 1 million Boingo hotspots around the world.  To sign up, click this link.

Boingo Home Page

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State of the Union: Bluebird, Serve, and Go Bank Reloads at Walmart with Gift Cards as of May 30, 2014

UPDATE 6/20/14: Do not use OVGCs or VGCs at Walmart.  Use other gift cards from other banks.
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State of the Union: Bluebird, Serve, and Go Bank Reloads at Walmart with Gift Cards as of May 30, 2014

First off, I want to thank all of you who commenting on my post from this morning ((Rumor) Walmart Updates Point of Sale (POS) Software, Making Bluebird/Serve/Go Bank Reloads Difficult) and shared their results, both successes and failures.  Based on your feedback, I can generalize what works and what doesn’t.  I have tried to make this as clear as possible, so here goes…

If you have $200 gift cards from Staples, Staples.com, Office Depot, or Office Max, your gift card reloads should work just as they always have.  You can load these gift cards at the Money Center ATMs/Kiosks, at the Money Center Department, or by going to a regular checkout lane.

These gift cards are issued by Gift Card Mall, which uses Metabank, therefore, any Visa or MasterCard gift card issued by Metabank should work as of today (May 30).

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