Category - Manufactured Spending

We’re seeing a couple of reports (here and here) of a 20% discount on Gap and Old Navy gift cards at Safeway. This is a great deal for Gap/Old Navy purchases, but it’s also an arbitrage opportunity. Per giftcardgranny.com... Read More →

We reported a few weeks ago on some gift cards being fee-free on Evolve. Today, Evolve sent out emails stating that they’re killing the deal. Okay, they didn’t actually say that, here’s the email: I killed the deal. In... Read More →

Facebook have added a new feature to their messenger application and that’s the ability to send money to your friends using a debit card. We’ve known that this feature has been coming for awhile (since October, 2014) but it... Read More →

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 →

We wrote yesterday about a new option that Chime now offers to write checks using your Chime balance, see Paper Checks with Chime – Manufacture Debit Card Spend. FrequentMiler commented there with a nice tip that I hadn’t... Read More →

Chime Checkbook Chime just rolled out a new feature called Checkbook which allows you to write checks fee-free from your Chime account to pay businesses or individuals. Here’s a look at the feature: You can access it at the top... Read More →

New SoftServe Accounts We reported that Softcard will be shutting down at the end of March. Once Softcard ceases to exist, it obviously won’t be possible to open a new Serve account with the enhanced SoftServe benefits. We... Read More →

Blackhawk Network announced in a recent press release that they’ll soon allow gift card exchanges through their GoWallet app. Blackhawk and Gift Cards Before we go into more details, let’s clarify who Blackhawk is: Blackhawk... Read More →

Recently Google acquired Softcard (originally called ISIS that had a name change for obvious reasons) which is a mobile payment application that directly competes with Apple pay & Samsung pay. We’ve know that Softcard would be... Read More →

US Bank Gift Cards We know that Evolve started charging a 3% fee for processing payment for debit cards issued by some smaller banks. Technically, a gift card can also be fee-free so long as it doesn’t fall under that... Read More →

We reported that Google bought into Softcard. At the time, no official date was given for when Softcard will cease to exist. Softcard is now saying that the day is near when Softcard will close down, even for existing users. Closure is... Read More →