Tag Archives: Chase Ink Business

What’s Up with Grant? CA Fires, CVS-AMEX, Citi Photo Cards, Update on Checkout51, and Hamburg/Copenhagen Planning

What's On My Mind

What’s Up with Grant? CA Fires, CVS-AMEX, Citi Photo Cards, Update on Checkout51, and Hamburg/Copenhagen Planning

Good morning everyone!  California has a had a rough couple of days deals with several forest fires.  I hope my friends/family/readers in San Diego County are all doing ok.  Thank you for all the hard work from the fire fighters and other respondents.  I am going down to San Diego on Saturday June 7 (3 weeks from today) to meet a friend of mine.  She is a big miles/points aficionado like myself, so I wanted to know if anyone would like to join us, a very casual miles/points meetup.  The time and place has yet to be decided, but it will probably be in the afternoon on Saturday.

Also, I have been a *really bad* blogger this week.  I haven’t posted anything in the last 3-4 days so I apologize for not keeping you up to date on the latest miles/points news:

  • Southwest Airlines credit card now 50,000 mile sign up bonus
  • Barclays Arrival Plus credit card now with chip and pin and the same sign up bonus
  • Chase Ink Bold/Plus credit card now with 60,000 Chase UR Points
  • American Express Daily Deals, maybe I should say “deals”, not too impressive this year
  • Evolve Pay now you can pay with some credit cards (mostly MasterCard)
  • Charlotte Mile Madness reviews
  • Whatever else I missed

Just because I haven’t been writing the last few days doesn’t mean I haven’t been experimenting with different topics/ideas.  I have some pretty good posts in the pipeline.  One post that’s been 1+ month in the making is my headache of a problem dealing with CVS and my American Express Target card.  Have you ever had a situation where neither company could help, but then you decided to do a 3 way conference call and have them speak directly to each other and solve the problem?  Ya, that’s what happened here.  I’m glad to finally have my $503.95 back.  More info to come shortly (P.S. crazy story).

Chargeback

Umm, what the heck is a reversal of chargeback and why do you do this to me AMEX??

Continue reading →

a red sign with white text

How to Activate Staples $200 Visa Gift Cards Without Activation Codes

Posted on by . 81 Replies

This post falls in the “I want to activate my gift cards but I don’t want to wait for the activation code letter to arrive in the mail” category.  Let’s say you ordered 4 $200 Visa Gift Cards from Staples.com and they all show up at the same time.  Great!  But.. what do you do if the activation letter (filled with the activation codes) doesn’t arrive at the same time?  Not to worry, you can activate all the gift cards over the phone without the activation codes.

Since Staples.com gift card orders *supposedly* no longer pay out to online shopping portals, this will probably be my last Staples.com gift card order, until something changes (see Frequent Miler’s post). On the back side of the letter that was attached to your Visa Gift Card is a phone number to call (1-866-357-7391) to activate your gift cards over the phone.

GCM FAQs

Continue reading →

Activate $200 Visa Gift Cards from Staples.com (Gift Card Mall)

200 Visa

Activate $200 Visa Gift Cards from Staples.com (Gift Card Mall)

Here is how to activate a Visa Gift Card that you ordered on Staples.com.  You will receive a letter with the $200 Visa Gift Card.  You will also receive a letter in a separate envelope with the activation code to activate your gift card.  You need both letters to do anything.  Here is what the gift card letter looks like:

GCM Visa Gift Card

To read the entire post, click here.

a woman with blonde hair and a green shirt

Get 10,000 Chase Ultimate Reward Points or 60,000 Chase UR Points with new Chase Ink Bold/Plus Credit Card Sign Up Offer

Posted on by . 52 Replies

Over the last week, Chase increased the sign up bonus for the Chase Ink Bold and Plus Business Credit Cards from 50,000 Chase Ultimate Reward Points to 60,000 Chase Ultimate Reward Points after spending $5,000 in 3 months.  They also increased the sign up bonus on the Chase Ink Cash Business Credit Card from $200 to $300 after spending $3,000 in 3 months.  See proof below…

This is all well and good, but what if you just got one of the 3 credit cards recently, like in mid March like I did?  Not to worry, just send Chase a secure message asking for the difference in sign up bonuses.

Chase Secure Message 60k

Within a few hours (while I was sleeping), Chase replied to me and offered me 10,000 Chase Ultimate Reward Points.  I looked at my Chase Ultimate Rewards balance and I can already see it is 10,000 points higher.  It really is that simple.  It never hurts to ask.

Chase Secure Message 10k Received

If you have any questions, please leave a comment below.

P.S. I don’t have any affiliate links for any of the credit cards in this post.  Have a great weekend everyone!