Loading a PayPal My Cash Card to your PayPal Account
These cards can be found at CVS, grocery stores, gas stations, and other stores. They have a similar look and feel to the Vanilla Reload Cards, but these can only be loaded to your PayPal account. They do have the same $3.95 activation fee per card. Here is the front and back of the PayPal My Cash Card:
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March App-O-Rama Thoughts: Hawaiian Airlines (35,000 Miles), Discover It ($150 Cash Back), Barclays Arrival ($440 Cash Back), Chase Ink Bold Visa (50,000 UR Points), Citi AA Executive (100,000 Miles), and US Bank Olympics Flex Points ($400+ Travel Credit)
Wow, what a title. I expect my Google Search traffic to go through the roof now. Anyways, my last app-o-rama was in early November (post), how I upgraded an AMEX Hilton HHonors to an AMEX Hilton HHonors Surpass (post), and my surprise approval of an AMEX Mercedes Benz Platinum card (post). If you want to see which 19 cards I currently have open, check out this list.
Since I typically wait at least 3 months between App-O-Ramas, I am starting to plan for my next round of credit card applications. Here is what is on my mind:
1 – Barclays Hawaiian Airlines Credit Card – 35,000 Hawaiian Airlines miles after spending $1,000 in 3 months
I’m not sure if this is a coincidence or if they were reading my mind, but I literally got this email 2 hours ago. Unfortunately (for me), this card is no longer issued by Bank of America. Barclays is now the credit card issuer. Barclays has never approved me for a card, so I have approximately a 1% chance of be approved.
(Massive Trip Report) Amsterdam, Berlin, Vienna, and Rome in 2 Weeks
Good morning everyone! Thanks to jet lag and time zones, I’m bringing you this massive trip report at 5AM PST. Are you ready? Let’s go!
Read the entire trip report here.
UPDATE 3/1/14 @ 5:30PM PST: my transfer from Virgin Atlantic to Hilton HHonors took 22 days to complete (see photo below).
Virgin Atlantic Transfers to Hilton HHonors Ratio Changing from 1:2 to 2:3, use AMEX Membership Reward Points to Liquidate Balance
(Hat Tip to Mommy Points for breaking the story)
Good morning from Rome! That title is a mouthful, I know, but here is the breaking news of the morning:
Now that the cat (news) is out of the bag, it pays to be proactive. I have a small balance of Virgin Atlantic miles (only 11,260). I want to get my balance up to 15,000 so I can transfer them out to my Hilton HHonors account.
Here is my Virgin Atlantic account. Copy your account number and head over to your American Express Membership Rewards Account. I’m skipping a lot of steps below, but you can see the entire step-by-step guide here. The guide shows you how to transfer to British Airways, but the process is exactly the same. Continue reading
What’s on my Mind? Bluebird and Walmart, Credit Card Sign Up / Spending Bonuses, Mercedes Benz Key Rings, Panda Express, Panera Bread, AMEX Statement Credits, BA Avios, and the Grand Canyon
Instead of posting several small blog posts, I decided to post everything here in 1 giant post.
1 – Which gift cards work at Walmart to reload a Bluebird Card?
Thank you to everyone who commented on my last post and shared their recent successes and failures of loading gift cards to Bluebird. I compiled the results below. From looking at the list, it looks like every Visa gift card that you guys tried worked, so I am going to switch from buying $200 MasterCard gift cards issued by US Bank to buying $200 Visa gift cards issued by Metabank (Gift Card Mall).
I went to Walmart today (January 6) and loaded 2 $200 and a $500 Visa gift card successfully.
