Category: deals

RingPlus – free cellphone service

May 19, 2016 / / 0 Comments

Having multiple phone numbers is helpful for a lot of reasons. Personally, I use my Google Voice number when filling out any potentially spammy forms or when selling things on Craigslist. I like being able to easily screen and block callers, as well as get voicemail transcriptions.

I also used to give it out to people after determining whether they were an iPhone or non-iPhone user — if they were an iPhone user, I gave them my real phone number so we could use iMessage…if they were not, I gave them my Google Voice number. The reason was not to be phone elitist, but that I used to be on that AT&T unlimited data plan and didn’t have free texts. Now that I’ve switched to T-Mobile (to save a LOT of money and have free international data), I no longer need to make that distinction. Continue reading →

FoundersCard Membership Signup Bonus of $100 Amex Gift Card –> How I’m Paying $235 for 2 Years

May 16, 2016 / / 5 Comments

UPDATE: if you used our referral links, could you please let us know? Apparently the referrals are not getting automatically tracked.

Hello everyone!

I’ve been getting bombarded for over a year by FoundersCard (referral link, see end of post for details) to join their program at a lifetime rate of $295/year. That wasn’t very appealing to me at the time, since I couldn’t justify how to get more than $295/year of value from the program. My friends Kenneth and Tonei were telling me about some of the great benefits. I’m going to rank them here as well as a few thoughts: Continue reading →

Amex Offer: 7500 MR for $500 spent on hotels at Amex Travel!

April 21, 2016 / / 4 Comments

Update: Many people are reporting offers for 10,000 MR after $500 spend. Share your data points in the comments!

Saw this come up on all of my Membership Rewards-earning cards in my Amex account:

Note that it can only be used for hotel bookings (Esther and I have made this mistake before), and, it excludes Fine Hotels & Resorts as well, but it’s a pretty sweet deal if you have cash bookings coming up. Continue reading →

Daily Getaways 2016: Should You Buy?

March 31, 2016 / / 5 Comments

If you follow any of the major blogs, you’ll know that U.S. Travel Association’s Daily Getaways are just around the corner. Daily Getaways is an annual event offering discounted rates on a variety of travel (typically hotels/attractions) related packages. I typically write these sorts of deals off because generally speaking, if there’s something that looks like a good deal, it either carries lots of weird restrictions, is overly specific (e.g. for a place I wouldn’t go), or is likely to go unused. Continue reading →

Redeem Membership Reward Points for 1.43 Cents for Paid Flights!

February 24, 2016 / / 3 Comments

Hello from Sydney!

I just got this email from American Express offering a 30% discount on Membership Rewards redemptions for paid international flights through amextravel.com. This yields a redemption rate of 1.43 (1.0/0.7) cents per point, which is better than the rate for both the Chase Sapphire Preferred and Citi Thank You Prestige (unless you redeem for AA flights, for which you’d get 1.6 cents per point). Continue reading →

The JCPenney Amex Offer

December 30, 2015 / / 6 Comments

I Have Spent More Time Inside a JCPenney This Month Than I Have My Entire Lifetime

I’m writing this post because today, I spent a total of 5 hours after work running around town chasing various deals (many were Amex Offers – Best Buy, Staples, Babies R Us, etc), and while that may sound like a lot of time, much of it was wasted at JCPenney. I want to try to save you some time the next time you’re trying to maximize one of those $X off $X coupons (the most popular one being the $10 off $10 that I seem to get in the mail at least quarterly for no apparent reason). Continue reading →

Retail eBay Gift Card Promotions ($15 off at Safeway for buying $125 GC)

December 26, 2015 / / 1 Comment

While reading about eBay’s holiday promotions, I clicked through to their holiday page and found their page listing retail eBay gift card promotions: http://www.ebay.com/rpp/retail-ebay-gift-card-promotions

Of particular interest to me is the Safeway promotion for $15 off your next Safeway shopping trip for buying a $125 eBay gift card. I do a lot of gift card buying/reselling from eBay, and I shop at Safeway, so this is a good promo for me. Continue reading →

United buy miles promotion actually goes up to 100% bonus miles

December 7, 2015 / / 0 Comments

Many of you may have recently received a mailer from United titled “Reveal your mystery bonus of up to 75%, 80% or 85% more miles” for purchases of miles until December 14, 2015.

I checked my offer, and it was for 85% bonus miles. After taxes and fees, that brought the cost to 2.03 cents per mile, which was a price I was okay with, but ultimately passed on.

However, a data point from one of my friends, Josh, as well as FlyerTalk shows that the bonus actual goes up to 100% bonus miles. Continue reading →

Paypal Extras Mastercard: $30 back on $100 at ebay

November 30, 2015 / / 0 Comments

Paypal Extras MasterCard (PPEMC) holders, check your email for subject: “Cyber Week is extra special with PayPal Extras MasterCard”

The offer is $15 off $50 spent at eBay using your PPEMC, issued as a statement credit. Offer can be used twice, for up to $30 in statement credits. Gift cards are not an exclusion.

Topcashback (referral link, thanks!) is offering 3.1% cashback on eBay purchases which also does not exclude gift cards. Continue reading →

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