Sunday Roundup: June 22nd, 40k Venture Offer & $1,000 Gift Cards

There were a couple of new credit card offers this week, the main one was that Capital One has increased the sign up bonus on their Venture card to 40k miles. This isn’t particularly exciting considering they do a credit pull on all three of your credit reports and there was a 50k offer earlier this year. There are also a number of credit unions that are offering $250 cash bonuses on their business cards.

We also did some more round up posts and let you know the best credit cards to use on: charity, drugstore, department store & telecommunication purchases. As well as a handy tip on how to get 4% cash back on all your purchases, irrespective of their category.

We also let you know about some $1,000 gift cards and $1,500 reloadable cards from MetaBank which some people might find useful for meeting minimum spend requirements. The downside is that you won’t be able to get any category bonus on these purchases.

Contents

1 Posts From Around The Web
- 1.1 Consumer Credit:
- 1.2 Travel Hacking:
2 Posts From Our Own Site

Posts From Around The Web

Consumer Credit:

The NYT let us know that Suze Orman’s “Approved” prepaid card is being discontinued. The worst part of this story is the lack of communication by Orman and her team about the discontinuation of these cards. Openness & communication were the key selling points of the prepaid card originally.
Mississippi is suing credit reporting agency Experian due to sweeping errors in the company’s data and violations of several consumer protection laws according to sltrib. Yet another reason why any legislation that makes it easier for consumers to fix errors is a step in the right direction.

Travel Hacking:

Frequent miler had an excellent post on getting free shipping for American Express gift cards
Frugalhack had an interesting post on what blog he’d follow if he could only follow one. We weren’t first, but at least we got a mention. I also agreed with his #1 pick.
Miles Momma let us know about a free 250 mile opportunity for Delta users [Targeted]
Saverocity launched a bunch of new sites it’ll be interesting to see if they can retain the say high quality with the abundance or new additions. Unlike boarding area who have been adding to their line up for the sake of it. Say hello to the following:
Miles to memories had some good information on amtrak.

Posts From Our Own Site

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Allen (@guest_15560)

June 23, 2014 22:19

#15560

Hello William,

Can I also know what blogs you subscribe to?

Thanks,

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William Charles(@will)

June 23, 2014 23:02

#15582

Allen

I follow a lot of blogs (I think at last count something like 300+). If you’re interested in it, I can great a list of blogs I’d recommend subscribing to?

AWTY (@guest_15309)

June 22, 2014 15:19

#15309

Appreciate the shout out! We’re excited to join Saverocity. I’m hoping Are We There Yet can be a little different – at least, I’m not approaching with the primary focus on affiliate clicks, and I think the others will tell you the same. We’re trying to tell some stories, and hopefully people are interested in coming back to read them. If not, I’ll be the first to take a knee and let the professionals get back to it 🙂

June 22, 2014 18:53

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AWTY

You’re welcome. It’s good to see more and more blogs move away from the affiliate click focus. I’ve added all the new saverocity sites to my feedly feed, so I’m sure you’ll be yourself and others in this section again.