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March 11, 2014: Staples will be Removed from Plink

March 11, 2014: Staples will be Removed from Plink

(Hat tip to Gary) See the update post here.

All good things must end, unfortunately. Luckily, there is still time to make 10 qualifying purchases at Staples before the March 11 deadline. This is a huge letdown, since most of us earned 99% of our Plink Points from Staples. On the positive side, maybe we will see Office Max or Office Depot? That’s a long shot, but it could happen.

Since starting with Plink, I have earned a lifetime total of 15,945 Plink Points = $159.45 in Amazon Gift Cards. Pretty good deal, how many Plink Points do you have in your account? (Hint: go to the My Account tab and scroll all the way to the bottom)

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PSA: Don’t Buy or Sell Gift Cards To/From Card Snagger

PSA: Don’t Buy or Sell Gift Cards To/From Card Snagger

Card Snagger is living up (down?) to their name. A few months ago, I had a bad experience buying from Card Snagger (link), where I wanted to buy my dad a Home Depot gift card for his birthday, but never heard anything from the company after more than a week. I was one of the lucky ones who got a refund from the company, but my blog post has received a lot of attention recently from others who have bought or sold gift cards to/from Card Snagger. If they had a hard time mailing a gift card to me, I would bet they would have an even harder time paying people for sending them gift cards. Which is why i sent out the following tweet a few minutes ago. If you have been burned by Card Snagger, please retweet so Gift Card Granny get’s the message and drops Card Snagger as a reputable gift card merchant.

@giftcardgranny Please remove @CardSnagger as a legit gift card company. They are stealing gift cards and not paying customers. #scammers

— Grant Thomas (@travelwithgrant) February 25, 2014

Here is Gift Card Granny’s policy on their gift card merchants (link):

I would recommend dealing with CardPool (based in San Francisco) for buying and selling. I am in the process of selling $1,250 of Bloomingdales gift cards (AMEX Deal) and will write up a detailed tutorial of how I sell gift cards online. I am also in the process of a GiftCards.com online order, which I will report on next week.

If you have any questions, please leave a comment on the linked post.

New American Express Offers and Citi Thank You Point Redemptions

New American Express Offers and Citi Thank You Point Redemptions

Good evening everyone! I am still alive after my 16 mile hike to the bottom of the Grand Canyon and back on Sunday. My feet and legs are still killing me, but my hands and fingers are doing good enough to type this blog post. I promise I will get a trip report up soon with several pics of my time at Flagstaff Extreme Obstacle Course, Bedrock City, Bearizona Wildlife Park, and the Grand Canyon.

Anyways, here are some of the new (and exciting) American Express Offers For You. As always, check all of your American Express cards, even the one’s you hardly use (I’m looking at you Delta Gold card).

Here are the offers that interest me (your offers might differ):

Bloomingdales on AMEX

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How to Load PayPal My Cash Cards to your PayPal Account

Posted on February 10, 2014 by Grant. 330 Replies

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:

Here is a copy of my receipt showing the $3.95 fee. I was able to use my credit card to pay for the purchase.

You will need to go to https://www.paypal-cash.com/ and click the yellow PayPal Access button to get started.

Enter your PayPal account login information.

The PayPal My Cash Card has a $500 daily reload limit and a $4,000 calendar month reload limit. Scratch off the back of the PayPal My Cash Card to reveal the 10 digit PIN and enter that into the text box.

Double check that the amount is correct and click the Yes, Load It Up button (such enthusiasm from PayPal).

Here is the confirmation screen showing the details of your recent reload. It will also show you how much more you can load that day ($0 for me) and how much more you can load that month ($3,500 for me). If you have another PayPal My Cash Card, you can load it to a different PayPal account or try again the following day.

Before loading the PayPal My Cash Card into my PayPal account, I had a current balance of $372.50.

After loading my PayPal My Cash Card, my PayPal balance went up $500 to $872.50.

Here is the reload details, it even knows that you bought the PayPal My Cash Card at CVS.

You will also receive a confirmation email of your recent PayPal My Cash Card reload.

That’s it. If you have a PayPal Business Debit Card, you can use that card to reload your Bluebird Card ($400 daily debit transaction maximum) or you can earn cash back by loading your Bluebird Card online (link).

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

No Vanilla Reload Cards? No Problem! One Vanilla Gift Cards to the Rescue

No Vanilla Reload Cards? No Problem! One Vanilla Gift Cards to the Rescue

I don’t know about you, but my local CVS store(s) are getting a bit low on ~~Valentine’s Day chocolat~~e Vanilla Reload Cards. Instead of walking out empty handed, take a look at the One Vanilla Gift Cards.

To read the entire post, please click here.

Here is my score from today (2/11/2014). 4 One Vanilla Cards, 2 Bluebird Cards (mine plus my dad’s) successfully loaded at Walmart. 4 swipes + 4 made up PINs = $2,000 on Bluebird. The ~~names and face~~ gift card numbers and receipt info have been whited out to protect the innocent (possibly underage) One Vanilla cards.

Also, there will be scheduled maintenance on my blog (and probably several other WordPress blogs hosted on BlueHost) tomorrow night.

Dear Grant,

Tomorrow night, beginning between the hours of 8 PM – 4 AM MST, we will be performing a kernel update on your server. We estimate the outage to be approximately 15-30 minutes. During this time, your email, website and account will not be accessible. This updated kernel brings a number of significant enhancements in all aspects of the kernel, the integral part of which the rest of the Operating System relies upon.

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