Category - Manufactured Spending

Green Dot are launching a new product that can be used to load funds onto PayPal accounts. This is called “PayPal cash powered by Green Dot at the register” and will be different to other reload cards. Here is how it will... Read More →

We’ve written about RadPad before, which is a service that allows you to pay your rent using a debit or credit card. Previously RadPad was charging a fee of $4.95 to pay your rent with a debit card (on rents up to $5,000) and a 2... Read More →

Usually it makes much more sense to use your credit card to make purchases, but there are some specific cases when using a debit card makes sense. The problem is that most debit cards do not have a rewards program, I decided to make a... Read More →

We always have an interest in knowing which gift cards can be purchased at gas stations since gas stations are often a bonused rewards category on credit cards. Currently, (Q1 2015) Discover is offering 5% cash-back at gas stations... Read More →

[Updated: 6/24/16] Debit/Credit Rent Payments Forward Cabin reports that there’s now a service by Radpad with which you can pay your rent via debit or credit card. Radpad is a company that focuses on all aspects of renting... Read More →

In case you didn’t know American Express has a prepaid card called the American Express Campus Edition card. In the past it was possible to reload this card at registers of select campus bookstores using a credit card. There was a... Read More →

We know that the Chase Freedom is going to earn 5x points/5% cash back on grocery store purchases for the first quarter in 2015 (on the first $1,500 in spend), there are also lots of cards that always earn at a high rate on these... Read More →

Back at the start of November, Evolve Money announced that users would be able to use it’s online bill payment platform to use Discover credit cards to pay all bills without any fees with plans to add Visa & MasterCard in the... Read More →

This is a guest post by Free-Quent Flyer. I recently did a guest post on his site titled “Funding bank accounts with credit cards“. I’d recommend following him on Twitter and if you do manufactured spending I’d... Read More →

Here’s some Target and Walmart gift card experiments. Mostly failures, but one mild success story. Visa Gift Cards at Target.com Target recently started carrying Visa gift cards online at target.com. The highest denomination is... Read More →

Background Those of us who are into Manufacturing Spend have certainly heard about the deluge of shutdowns on the Amex Old Blue card. It first started on October 22, and we plodded along for a month and a half with no major developments... Read More →

AAA members can purchase Visa gift cards fee-free at AAA locations for a limited time. The Offer Direct Link to Offer [This link is for the Mid-Atlantic area. You can poke around and find it for your own area.] AAA also sells Visa gift... Read More →

Walmart BillPay Difficulties Flyertalk is lighting up with reports of people having trouble paying credit card bills using Walmart BillPay. Most folks are reporting that the credit card payees are all gone from the BillPay list! Even... Read More →

If you have an American Express serve card, chances are you received an e-mail from them regarding cash advance fees. Below is an excerpt of the e-mail followed by our thoughts (emphasis ours): We wanted to remind you that you may see... Read More →

The Offer When you purchase American Express giftcards through Swagbucks you can now earn 2x Swagbucks per $1 spent. The person who referred you also earns 10%, which means you could effectively earn 2.2x Swagbucks if the person who... Read More →