Good morning everyone. In this post, I will show you how to cancel a Southwest Airlines reservation (both a paid reservation and a reservation booked with points), along with showing you how to view your travel funds. After you log into your Southwest Airlines account, click the “Flight | Hotel | Car” tab at the top of any Southwest Airlines page.
Then click Manage Reservations under the Flight header.
Good afternoon everyone. If you can read and understand the title, you are an experienced travel hacker / MSer. My friend Mike sent me a picture of a current promotion running at his local Von’s (Safeway) grocery store. Purchase $150 or more in Visa or American Express Gift Cards and you will revive a coupon for $15 off your next $25 grocery purchase. The promo is running from November 4 to 17 and the coupon must be redeemed within 7 days of your gift card purchase. Assuming you buy gift cards on the last day of the promo (November 17), you have until November 24 (2 days before Thanksgiving) to redeem the coupon. This coupon could be great if you have lots of Thanksgiving grocery store purchases to make. I don’t know if you can redeem more than 1 coupon per transaction, but get creative.
Here are the full terms of the promo:
Good afternoon everyone, Q4 is among us. With that, comes new cash back categories for Chase Freedom, Citi Dividend, and Discover It credit card holders. Let’s go through the list of categories really quickly, starting with the Citi Dividend Credit Card: 5% cash back at Best Buy and department stores. Most people will probably buy Visa Gift Cards at Best Buy. I would also like to mention that you can often buy department store gift cards for much more than a 5% discount by shopping on Gift Card Granny. Macy’s gift cards are 10%+ discounted, Sears gift cards are 6%+ discounted, and Kmart gift cards are 7%+ discounted.
Good morning everyone. A few weeks ago, I did an 8 card App-O-Rama. One of my top credit cards to apply for was the Chase Sapphire Preferred Credit Card. I previously opened a Chase Sapphire Preferred Credit Card back in August 2012 which I then downgraded to the Chase Sapphire (Basic) Credit Card in August 2013 which I then converted to the Chase Freedom Credit Card in November 2013. Since I received the sign up bonus back in August 2012, I waited the necessary 24 months to reapply.
When I first received the Chase Sapphire Preferred Credit Card, the sign up bonus was 40,000 Chase Ultimate Rewards Points after spending $3,000 in 3 months. The current sign up bonus is 40,000 Chase Ultimate Rewards Points after spending $4,000 in 3 months. Long story short, I was low on Chase Ultimate Rewards Points (aren’t we all?) and I had waited long enough to reapply, so I was ready to apply for my second Chase Sapphire Preferred Credit Card.
Side note: Doctor of Credit and a few other blogs and forums are reporting that Chase has really cracked down on approving applications for people that have more than 5 credit inquiries total during the last 2 years. I (foolishly) ignored those warnings and insisted that my previous 3 years with Chase, 16 total approved Chase credit cards (8 currently open), and reconsideration call skills would be enough to get approved for the Chase Sapphire Preferred Credit Card.
Spoiler alert: it wasn’t enough. Continue reading
(Hat Tip to Noah @ Money Metagame for the idea)
Good morning from beautiful Scottsdale, Arizona. I am staying at the $80/night Hyatt Place in Scottsdale after an exciting day at the Phoenician Hotel and Resort for the First2Board PHX Sessions. This morning, I was reading Money Metagame’s article and it got me thinking… how much money have I made/saved using AMEX Offers on 1 AMEX card over the last 12 months? If you log into your American Express account, click AMEX Offers For You, and click My Savings, you will see all the enrolled offers that you participated in. I think this list may exclude AMEX Sync Offers, so take that into consideration if you don’t see all your offers. Here is what I bought and the profit ($/%) per AMEX Offer:
