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2 Months Down, 1 Month Left: Chase Freedom & Discover It Q2 5% Cash Back Category Progress

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Good morning everyone, I hope you all had a great weekend.  My Chase Freedom and Discover It credit card statements just closed and I wanted to take a quick look and see how I was doing on the quarterly cash back categories.  As a reminder, the Chase Freedom Credit Card earns 5% cash back on the first $1,500 spent at grocery stores and wholesale clubs from April 1 through June 30.

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Great First Experience Selling Gift Cards to SaveYa (13 Day Turnaround)

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Good morning everyone, I hope your Wednesday is off to a great start.  2 weeks ago, I sold a few Panera Bread gift cards to SaveYa and I wanted to share my positive experience selling to SaveYa.  The first thing I did was look on Gift Card Granny’s sell prices for Panera Bread gift cards.  Let me explain that I love Panera Bread but there are no restaurants near me in San Francisco.  Plus, I bought these gift cards several months ago at a discount, so I don’t mind selling them for a big discount.

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Target App Coupons: $10 Target Gift Card with $50 Grocery Purchase (Expires Today)

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Good morning everyone, happy Memorial Day.  Before I head out to the beach, I wanted to share a quick deal that I found yesterday.  If you have the Target app (iOS or Android), you may have some coupons loaded to your account.  There is a Memorial Day coupon where you can get a $10 Target gift card after you spend $50 or more on grocery items.  To see if you received the coupon, log into your Target mobile app, click on the deals tab at the top of the screen and then click Mobile Coupons in the lower left.  Hopefully you see a few coupons there.

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My Retention Offers for Citi Forward, Premier, Prestige & AA Platinum Credit Cards

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Good morning everyone.  Yesterday, I called Citi to ask about a recent credit card transaction.  Toward the end of the call, the rep asked if I had any other questions and I said that I had just paid the annual fee on my Citi Prestige Credit Card, but that I was considering closing the credit card.  I told her that I use my Citi Premier Credit Card more often than my Citi Prestige Credit Card and I don’t take advantage of the 3 free rounds of golf or 4th night free hotel benefit, so I don’t get much value out of paying the *huge* annual fee.  She put me on hold for a minute and transferred me to the credit card retention team (actual department name may differ).

After talking to the rep for a few minutes, he offered me the following retention offers on my Citi Prestige Credit Card:

  • Spend $4,000 in 3 consecutive months and get a $200 statement credit
  • Spend $3,000 over the next 6 months and get 10,000 bonus Citi Thank You Points (TYPs)

The $200 statement credit sounded tempting, but spending $12,000 over the next 3 months seemed like overkill for a 1.67% bonus ($200 / $12,000 = 1.67%).  I decided to take the second offer which only required me to spend $3,000 over the next 6 months, or about $500/month.  Since I value Citi TYPs at 1.6 cents per point (CPP), I would be getting a $160 bonus after spending $3,000, which results in a 5.33% bonus ($160 / $3,000 = 5.33%).

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Happy Blogiversary! Travel with Grant Turns 3 Years Old + Amazon Giveaway

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Update 5/7/2016 at 11am PT: Here are the 3 winners I selected:

  • Adam said “I actually was inspired by yours to have my own Amtrack train trip! Thought about it in the past, pulled the trigger after your reports ;)”
  • Christina said “I love your blog and also I loved meeting you at in Chicago at FTU Advanced (you’re really a friendly and modest fella). Congrats on your anniversary Grant! I learned all about AmEx offers and Serve from you. I earned enough AA miles through MS to take my daughter to Paris this year. Thank you and keep up the good work!”
  • Seth said “You had a contest one time to have people come up with the best weekend trip you could take for a single sign up bonus (or something like that). I actually ended up taking a trip very similar to the one I came up with, and I never would have thought of it without the great prompt and information from your site!”

Thank you to everyone who entered the contest and for all the great interactions over the last 3 years.  Happy Mother’s Day weekend everyone!

Good morning everyone, happy Wednesday!  Oh, by the way, Travel with Grant turned 3 years old yesterday.  Pretty crazy, right?  I can’t believe it’s been 3 years already, time sure flies by.  I sometimes get asked for advice about blogging and I always tell people the same thing: “Starting a blog is easy, but keeping it going day in and day out takes a lot of work.”  During the first few months of blogging, you feel like no one reads your blog or cares about your blog.  I used to get jealous of other bloggers who had tons of readers and received several comments on each post.  Why was no one reading or commenting on my blog posts?  Over time, I learned that readers like to read and not leaving a comment does not mean anything bad.  If I had written something wrong/bad, I’m sure the commenters would have let me know right away.

Looking back at my first month of blogging, I had a total of 3,314 total pageviews, now I can (occasionally) pass that number in a single day of blogging.  My blog traffic quickly climbed the first year during the golden age of MS (Bluebird, Serve, Vanilla Reload Cards, PayPal My Cash Cards, churning credit card, retention bonuses, etc.).  My blog was off to a great start!

TWG Stats May 2013

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