Earning the points you need for that dream vacation might not be as hard as you think if you plan …
Tag: Prepaid Cards
How to Use Gift Cards and Money Orders to Manufacture Spend
Update: Note that Vanilla branded gift cards (like the ones pictured below) no longer work. Other Visas, like the ones …
An Introduction to Using Bluebird and Vanilla Reloads for Earning Miles
UPDATE: Note that you can no longer purchase Vanilla Reloads from CVS and most other locations using a credit card. …
The Google Wallet Card: Now Available, but Not Great
Google likes to tease the points world with the Google Wallet program in my opinion. They added the ability to …
The Aftermath of the Home Improvement Gift Card Deal
The recent Home Improvement Gift Card (HIGC) “deal” makes for a very interesting case study. I’ve written about the secrecy …
The Bluebird/SPG Reward Night Cost Chart
I got a lot of positive (and some negative) feedback for my Bluebird/Chase Ink Award Cost Chart post, so I …
Introducing the Bluebird/Chase Ink Award Cost Charts
Manufactured spend is essentially when one purchases items using a rewards credit card and then liquidates those items (turning them …
The Hidden Costs of Earning Miles with Prepaid Cards
Generating miles/points via the use of prepaid cards is all the rage right now, and rightly so. They can greatly …