Published on January 11th, 2015 | by William Charles

Best Posts This Week, Jan 11th: Earn Cashback & Miles For Paying Your Rent, Win $225

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RadPay which is a service that lets you pay your rent with a debit or credit card announced that they would no longer be charging any fees for paying your rent using a debit card. This means that you can now earn cash back or miles if you have a rewards earning debit card.

Chuck showed us a potential perpetual point machine by buying an eBay giftcard with another eBay gift card. There are some monthly limits and a lot of risk (portal clawback, account shut down etc) but it’s an interesting angle none the less that’s worth a look.

Chase also increased the sign up bonus to 50,000 points on all of the Southwest cards. They do this quite frequently, but if you’re going for a companion pass (which gives a companion free travel on any Southwest flight you take and requires 110,000 miles) now is the best time of year to go after it. This is because it’s valid until the end of calendar year you get the pass in and then the following calendar year.

Contents

1 All Of Our Posts This Week
2 Best Posts From Around The Web
3 Deals Dying Next Week

All Of Our Posts This Week

Sunday 4th

Why You Shouldn’t Apply For The American Express Platinum 40,000 Point Offers

Monday 5th

Tuesday 6th

Wednesday 7th

Thursday 8th

Friday 9th

Saturday 10th

Best Posts From Around The Web

Credit Cards

A list of Comenity credit cards: which ones are worth getting?
Chase Ink Plus annual fees: A/B testing or a sign of things to come? by Freequent Flyer
Bet You Didn’t Know: Getting a second US Airways Mastercard by Frequent Miler

Manufactured Spending

3 miles per dollar everywhere, uncapped by Frequent Miler

Travel Hacking

Jump Through Some Hoops And Get A 2 Night Stay At Select Hyatt Properties by Chasing The Points
UPDATE: Marriott Rewards Spring 2015 MegaBonus February 1 – April 30, 2015 (Post Your Offers) by Loyalty Lobby
Club Carlson’s 1Q Promotion Is Great – It May Even Be Mattress Run Worthy – I Break Down the Math! by Miles to Memories
Lazy Travelers Delta Guide:
Predictions for 2015 by The Military Frequent Flier
Predictions for 2015, 83.3% guaranteed by Frequent Miler
Things you never knew … stay at the Thistle Heathrow and take a driverless pod to T5! by Head For Points

Misc

$30 Off $150+ Order At Staples When You Use Visa Checkout via Twitter
I just price matched Amazon, and now I feel dirty.. by Saverocity Finance
Credit Karma Recommends The Most Lucrative Card in History by View From The Wing, looks like Credit Karma is having a few issues recently.

Deals Dying Next Week

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James B.

It would benefit your readers immensely if you wrote a short list of popular blogs that have sold out completely to affiliate interests or are overly influenced in their content by affiliate interests. I suspect you prefer not to do this because of a personal reasons?

thepointsguy is a good example. Occasionally, it does have useful information. But more and more, it has become a propaganda mouthpiece for CC issuers. I do like the format of thepointsguy. It is easy to read the latest blog entries and older blog posts.

Can anyone else think of other good examples of blogs that have sold out to affliate revenues?

I understand your carrot approach and see the benefits. At the same time, a spade should be called a spade and readers should be warned when certain blogs have sold out to affiliate interests.

William Charles

Hey James,

The problem with that is that it’s pretty subjective – some people still find the TPG really useful for example and because of the size of the blog Brian often breaks big news. I’m also trying to be a bit more positive in 2015, rather than complaining about what other blogs are doing I want to lead by example by producing quality content that readers actually want.

If people are sick of reading credit card sales pitches disguised as original content then they should support other bloggers by sharing good quality on social networks, forums and their own websites. I think we saw a bit of this type of shift in 2014 and I hope it continues in 2015.

Best Posts This Week, Jan 11th: Earn Cashback & Miles For Paying Your Rent, Win $225