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Evolve Money Update: Pay All Bills with Visa, MasterCard, and Discover Credit Cards (3% Fee Applies)

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Good morning everyone, Evolve Money sent out an email update this morning regarding changes to their bill pay feature.  In recent months, Evolve Money let you pay all bills with Discover credit cards (link), then a month later, Evolve Money evolved changed and would only let you pay certain bills with a Discover credit card (link).  Today, Evolve Money will let you pay any bill with a Discover credit card, but they added a 3% bill pay fee.  In the process of checking out Evolve Money, I discovered that you could also add Visa and MasterCard credit cards and pay any bills, but the same 3% bill pay fee still applies.

Evolve money Update 2-1-2015

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Reminder: OC Meetup at In-N-Out Saturday January 31 at 6PM

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Good morning everyone, this is just a friendly reminder for all readers in the Orange County area.  Please join me and many others like me for dinner at In-N-Out as we discuss miles and points.  All levels of expertise are welcome, from beginners to experts.

OC Meetup:

In-N-Out Tustin District Map

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New Vanilla Reload Flex Load Cards at Walgreens (Cash Only)

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Yesterday, I stopped by Walgreens to pick up a PayPal My Cash Card and saw the new Vanilla Reload Flex Load Cards on the gift card rack.  I picked it up and looked on the back to learn more about the card.  As of December 2014 (see the 1214v01 code in the lower left corner), this card can be used to load:

  • American Express Serve
  • H&R Block Emerald Prepaid MasterCard
  • JH Preferred Prepaid Visa Card
  • Momentum Visa Prepaid Debit Card
  • MoneyNetwork Cards
  • MyVanilla Prepaid Visa Card
  • NetSpend Prepaid Debit Card
  • PayPal Prepaid MasterCard
  • READYdebit Gold Visa Prepaid Card
  • Western Union NetSpend Prepaid MasterCard

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Travel Challenge: Could you MS During the Week to Pay for a Weekend Trip?

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Updated at 9:30am PST on 1/31/2015: the winners of the contest have been chosen.  Scroll to the bottom of this post to see who won.

This is an idea that came to me a few weeks ago, but I never gave it much thought until writing my recent tell-all MS posts (Part 1: My Manufactured Spend and Redbird Loading Strategy and Part 2: My Manufactured Spend Strategy with PayPal, Chime, Meetups, Reselling, and More!).  If you assumed the miles, points, or cash back posted right away (rather than when the statement closed), could you MS during the week to pay for a weekend trip?

The Rules

To make things more realistic, let’s ignore credit card sign up bonuses and only focus on using the credit cards and prepaid cards you currently have today.  Timing is everything, so let’s assume today is the first of the month and all your monthly MS limits have been reset (Bluebird, Serve, Redbird, PayPal, etc.).  Your net out of pocket expenses should be $100 or less.

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