Before I dive into what is (intentionally) a controversial topic, I just want to take a second to welcome all our new readers who found us through Doctor of Credit. We’re super excited to have you, and hopefully you’ll find that we have an interesting thing or two to share. And of course, I’d be remiss to thank all of our existing, long-time readers (dad, I’m talking to you) for supporting us and valuing our voices. As we close in on the anniversary of our starting the blog, I couldn’t be happier with how it has turned out, and I know Esther and Michael feel the same way. We’ve managed to break some deals, share some different perspectives on hacking, tell some funny stories, and extend our hobby with our friends in family. What more could we want?
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Using Zapier to keep track of Amazon promotional credit expiration dates
Do you ever buy things from Amazon.com and choose No-Rush Shipping for whatever promotional credit they’re offering at the time? Usually it’s either $1 on digital media (Kindle eBooks, TV shows, music, software, etc) or $5.99 shipping credit for Prime Pantry (these are less useful to me).
The credits are worthless unless you use them, and use them by their expiration dates. This link shows you how many credits you have left for digital media (Prime Pantry credits are not listed here), but it doesn’t show you expiration dates. Those expiration dates are in individual emails, one for each order you made. I make dozens of orders per month that I choose slow shipping on, so I’ve let many credits expire just because I wasn’t keeping track.
Grab all e-gift card codes from Discover with this trick!
Now that the Discover Double Cashback is finally coming in, you may be looking into redeeming your Discover cashback in various ways, such as gift cards. But say you’ve just redeemed for a bunch of gift cards, and you want to easily grab the codes off the redemption page. Normally this would involve a lot of copy and pasting while switching back and forth between windows, but I’ve wrote a simple script so you can grab ALL the e-gift codes and PINs straight from the page.
JetBlue Points Match Promotion: Is It Worth It?
NOTE: Please read comments about potential eligibility requirements that are not officially listed on the promotion site. As with everything YMMV.
For any of you who follow the major blogs, you’ve heard by now that JetBlue is running a promotion where they will ‘match’ your Virgin America points balances after you send them an email with a screenshot of your Virgin America balance and fly a single round-trip flight with them by August 31.
BBVA update: the party is on!
During the last two BBVA promo periods before the current one, it was discovered that BBVA gives 5x for ALL purchases, not just physical swipes. However, BBVA was very inconsistent about when you would get the 5x rewards. Often, purchases would post at 1x rewards then some indeterminate time later, would post at 5x rewards.
This lead to some fears and confusion during this current BBVA NBA finals promo period of what actually would post at 5x versus 1x. As of Monday/Tuesday, I had a bunch of purchases post in my account, but only some of them posted as 5x, and it was very inconsistent which ones received the extra bonus or not. My Target.com VGCs, Giftcards.com didn’t post, but somehow my tax payment and Giftcardmall purchases did. And funnily enough, some *actual* physical swipes didn’t either.
The Real Deal with Rental Car Insurance
Hello! Good day! I’m still alive!
For those of you who follow the blog regularly, you’ll know that I haven’t posted in a while and may be wondering where the heck I went. Well, long story short, I felt like I didn’t have anything particularly interesting to share, and since Michael and Esther were kicking ass with their recent posts, I didn’t feel any need to pipe in. This has definitely been a huge benefit to co-authoring a blog, since none of us feel pressured to write and we can still manage to keep up content with one or two of us writing at a time.
Enter to win a roundtrip flight from Alaska Airlines with Uber for Pride Week
I’m sure if you have an Uber account you’ve seen this promo already, but you can enter to win a free roundtrip flight anywhere Alaska Airlines flies with a sweepstakes from Uber. All you have to do is live in certain West Coast cities + Honolulu, enter the appropriate promo code, and take rides on Uber during the sweepstakes period, which aligns with Pride Week in the various cities.
The sweepstakes periods and promo codes are (Los Angeles and Portland are already over, but San Francisco is on right now!)
Is 5x Ultimate Rewards at CardCash dead?
I’ve been using CardCash over the last year or so to buy discounted gift cards while also getting 5x Ultimate Rewards through my Chase Ink card. CardCash, whether paid through PayPal or paid directly, would code as Utilities and earn 5x Ultimate Rewards with Chase Ink.
From recent datapoints from people I know, as well as my own personal datapoints, it seems like on 6/16, CardCash has started to code as Recreation instead and only earn 1x Ultimate Rewards points.
Recovering a long lost Total Rewards account
I’ve been hearing a lot of good things about the Total Rewards program, which is the loyalty program of a number of casinos and hotels around the United States, notably Harrah’s, Caesar’s Palace, the LINQ, the Cromwell, Rio, Paris, and more. Specifically, I heard that Diamond status, which you can get through a match with FoundersCard had a lot of great benefits, like waived resort fees, buffet privileges and more (possibly even a free stay in the Bahamas!) So I wanted to create a Total Rewards account to take advantage of the benefits. Great, right?
Applied for the PayPal Extras MasterCard from the wrong account? It can be fixed!
A month or two ago, I wanted to add my PayPal Extras MasterCard as a backup method for my PayPal Business Debit card for that sweet, sweet extra cashback. I had an existing PayPal Business Debit card, so I went to apply for the PayPal Extras MasterCard. You are allowed to have 2 PayPal accounts, so I went to make sure which account had the Business Debit card on it first before applying, or so I thought.