Category - Manufactured Spending

We’re all trying to figure out how to go forward now that REDbird can’t be loaded with a credit card directly. Naturally, we’ll turn to buying Visa/Mastercard gift cards with a credit card and using those to load... Read More →

Credit Cards No More As we know, REDbird stopped allowing credit card loads today. This was heavily reported yesterday on many blogs, based on a memo which was circulating in Target stores saying that as of May 6, 2015 credit cards... Read More →

Staples.com We wrote about the discounted gift cards available at Staples this week. Both Gap and Sephora are gift cards which can be easily resold at 80% of its value which makes these deals an easy way of racking up INK points or... Read More →

The Offer Direct Link For a limited time, purchase Visa gift cards of up to $500 each with no purchase fee at any AAA location in the Mid-Atlantic. AAA Locator It appears on the Mid-Atlantic AAA web page and does not seem to be... Read More →

Background Giftcards.com is one of the options for reselling gift cards that you aren’t planning on using yourself. We documented in The Complete Guide to Selling Your Unwanted Gift Cards that the company is actually from the best... Read More →

Evolve Money seem to be hell bent on shutting down any possible use of their service for points & miles enthusiasts. The latest victim is the UFB debit card, which earns 1 American Airline mile for every $2 spent. You used to be... Read More →

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 →