- Hyatt Residence Club – New Award Chart – Material Positive Changes for a few select owners! by The Time Share Guru. I assume most readers aren’t in the time share game, but this is one of the blogs that was shared by a reader in this post and I’m looking forward to learning more.
- Why you should be careful about using restaurant gift cards by Miles Per Day. Good idea in the comments to wrap your receipt around the gift card.
- Turnover Tuesdays – I’ve Violated All Of My Rules by Oren’s Money Saver. Evolution is good, you don’t want to be stuck doing exactly the same thing and failing to adapt.
- Alaska Airline Updates Award Charts – Removes Aeromexico Awards by Travel Codex. Not a big surprised due to the fact these weren’t bookable before.
- Adobe, Microsoft Push Critical Security Fixes by Krebs On Security. Adobe auto update also decides to try and install a google chrome plugin as well without any warning. No thankyou.
What I usually do: sharpie on a glossy gift card gets wiped off eventually, so I take a pair of scissors, scratch somewhere away from the magnetic strip and voila, it’s there for me reference until the next time.
Re: keeping up with GC balances
as mentioned in the discussion, I’ve experienced my receipts turning blank because they’re thermal paper and therefore, no way to see how much balance is on the GC. I prefer writing the balance with a sharpie with date and balance left on GC. This has worked well for me.
Wrapping receipts over gcs can only take you so far. You can’t prove to the store that wasn’t the last time you used it, so if the card number was stolen by the guy swiping it and used for a second charge, you are out of luck.
Though I did have a store manager call CS directly once over a large sum that magically vanished. He was suspicious too because it was a perfectly round number which would have been nearly impossible to pull off due to taxes. CS issued me a $50 gc as a favor — so I got something back at least.
I think the receipt thing is more just to easily keep track for yourself, not to use as proof.