The Discover it credit card offers 5% cash back on $1,500 in purchases each quarter in rotating categories. Most people will put as much spending in those categories as possible (obviously without spending more than they normally would... Read More →
Author - William Charles
Upgrading Credit Cards: Rules & Tips For Each Card Issuer
We’ve talked about downgrading credit cards before, which is usually the process of turning a credit card with an annual fee into one that doesn’t have an annual fee. Increasingly credit card issuers are allowing you... Read More →
Changes To American Express Membership Rewards Redemption Starting June 28th
American Express are making a number of changes to the value you receive when you redeem membership rewards points. Before anybody freaks out, this will not affect any travel transfer partners. In fact most of the options that are... Read More →
My Predictions For The Future Of Chase Hyatt Card: 50k Points, Diamond Status & Increased Annual Fee
I like making predictions, sometimes they make me look like Nostradamus and other times they make me look stupid. Regardless of the outcome I think it’s interesting to speculate and I hope readers also enjoy these types of posts... Read More →
Best Posts Last Week: 5x Everywhere, Great Bank Bonuses, MS Reflection & Improvement
Last week I found a credit card that earns 5x points everywhere. Now before you get too excited, this card doesn’t always earn 5x everywhere. It only happens twice a year (all star weekend and NBA finals weeks), this could still... Read More →
American Express Sync Offers: Lowes (Spend $50, Get $10) & Chevron/Texaco (Spend $25, Get $5)
Two new American Express Sync offers have been released which could be of use to some of you. Let’s have a look at both of them: Lowes Spend $50, Get $10 Statement Credit The Offer Direct link to offer Enroll in this American... Read More →
BBVA Compass Points, Unlimited Flights For A Fixed Price, Etihad Award Discounts & More On Killing Deals
Credit card rewards analysis: how much are BBVA CompassPoints worth? by PFdigest. I’m not entirely sure the new NBA credit card earns these points, it looks like they earn DoubleTriple points which might have a different... Read More →
European Union Votes To Cap Credit Card Processing Fees & What It Might Mean For Us
The European Parliament have voted in favor of a piece of regulation which will cap the interchange fees charged in processing consumer debit and credit card processing. The regulation is titled “Regulation on Interchange Fees for... Read More →
Serve To Discontinue Online Credit Card Loads With Visa, MasterCard & Discover On April 16th
Serve have announced that starting on April 16th, they will no longer allow you to load your card online with a credit card if it runs on the Visa, Mastercard or Discover network. They added the following to their website some time... Read More →
Uber Two Free Rides (Up To $15 Each) For St Patricks Day – New Users Only
The Offer New users to Uber can receive two free rides up to $15 in value as part of the companies St Patricks day promotion. Use the promotional code “LUCKY15” The Fine Print Two free rides are only valid until May 1st... Read More →
[YMMV] $15 Amazon.com Credit When You Use At Least 1 Citi Point
The Offer Direct link to offer Link an eligible Citi card to your Amazon.com account. Receive a $15 discount when you use the “pay with points” option. You will need to enter the promotional code “SWP15CT15” You... Read More →
Open Discussion: How Should We Handle MS Topics?
A few days ago, we posted two controversial posts about Chime card, one was a tip for unloading Buxx cards. At the time there was no fee to load Chime with a Buxx card, since then Chime has added a 3% fee. I’m more than happy to... Read More →
Stockpile.com: Gift Stocks To Friends & Family With Stock Giftcards
Stockpile.com is a new website that aims to make purchasing single stocks as gifts easier. The basic idea is this: You choose a stock You select how much you want to purchase (in dollars) You can add an optional message You then pay by... Read More →
Charity Arcade, Killing A $25k MS Deal, Mail In Rebates, “Front Of Phone” & More
Charity Arcade by Swedavia – Swedish Airports. Incredibly awesome idea, waiting for bags sucks and playing games is awesome. I wish they’d put these into more airports and also into terminals so I can play there as well... Read More →
BBVA Compass NBA TripleDouble American Express Card Review: 5x Everywhere & 20,000 Point Bonus
Recently BBVA Compass announced that they were going to offer a NBA co-branded credit card, this called is officially called the BBVA Compass NBA American Express Card Featuring TripleDouble Rewards. This card has finally launched, so I... Read More →

