Category - Manufactured Spending

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 →

[UPDATE #4 1/2/2015: One DoC reader reports getting the original email from Paypal with the warning against withdrawing, and more recently getting an updated email from Paypal, saying (emphasis added): ” We’re not sure you’re... Read More →

We previously discussed that GoBank rolled out new fees and limits and started reappearing, see GoBank Reappears? Since then, I’ve noticed them popping up in a few Walmart’s, so it’s now rolled out for all to get... Read More →

Evolve Update A few days ago , we reported that Evolve now accepts Discover cards. The big question remained: What will be with the 1% cashback?  Will it earn cashback, or will it be specifically coded not to? Additionally, many... Read More →

Simon Mall sells Visa gift cards in the Mall and online. There have been some changes over time in their online gift card sales. They also offer bulk gift card sales for businesses who want to reward their employees. It’s... Read More →