The Offer Purchase at least $300 in Visa giftcards from Staples and receive a $20 VisaPrepaid Card when you complete the Staples Easy Rebate. This is similar to last weeks promo, except that this week you need to buy Visa giftcards... Read More →
Category - Manufactured Spending
Buy $300 Or More In Mastercard Giftcards & Receive $20 Staples Giftcard
The Offer Purchase at least $300 in Mastercard giftcards from Staples and receive a $20 staples gift card when you complete the Staples Easy Rebate. Because this deal is not live yet, it will not show up on the Easy Rebate website. The... Read More →
Walgreens $5 Giftcard When You Purchase 2 Or More Vanilla Visa Gift Cards 10/05-10/11
The Offer The Fine Print Walgreens sells $500 Variable load gift cards (which are included for this promotion. They are pictured in the advertisement) which have a $4.95 fee. Valid from 5th of October to the 11th of October Our Verdict... Read More →
PSA: Set Your Cash Advance Limit To $0 To Reduce Your Risk & Always Have A Float
A few days ago, I tweeted the fact that some people had reported having their Serve loads code as a cash advance when using certain credit cards (mostly Chase). A few readers sent me panicked messages about this saying that they... Read More →
Chime Still Allowing All Debit Cards
We previously reported that as of October 8 (today), Chime will begin charging a 3% fee on *some* debit card loads. From my own Chime account it was pretty clear that PPBDC would be charged the 3%. I have a regular debit card set up in... Read More →
BillPay at Kmart – Liquidate Debit/Gift cards
Kmart offers a BillPay service, much like Walmart does. And, like Walmart, you can pay with cash or a PIN based debit card. And gift cards work too, including Vanilla! Walmart BillPay Walmart BillPay has long been a great option for... Read More →
The New 7% Target Red Card, and More on the Amex RedCard
The big news recently was the new  Bluebird alternative, the Amex Target RedCard, which just rolled out. See American Express Launches Prepaid Target REDcard Similar To Serve/Bluebird. I’d like to discuss a completely different... Read More →
American Express Launches Prepaid Target REDcard Similar To Serve/Bluebird
American Express look to be serious about going after the massive underbanked/unbanked market (as high as 10 million households). They already have a number of prepaid products such as Bluebird, Serve, AmEx for Target (AFT) & AmEx... Read More →
Who’s The Sucker?
Debit Cash-back Many of us like to do certain online debit card transactions using our PP debit card. This debit card gives 1% cash-back for non-PIN purchases. 1% isn’t a great number, but it is great for something which only... Read More →
5% Vs. 5% Vs. 5%
I’m in the market for a new credit card (aren’t we always?), and I was looking into different cards with a high category-bonus, such as supermarket, gas, drugstore … the kind of stores we frequent.  Another criterion... Read More →
Paper for GoBank
Paper checks We spoke about changes coming to GoBank, see GoBank Reappears. When I logged into my GoBank account a few days ago, I saw this: Apparently, GoBank is planning on adding an option of getting paper checks. They do mention... Read More →
Safeway Offering $15 Off $25+ Coupon When You Purchase 2x Variable Load Gift Cards
The Offer Purchase any two variable load Visa or MasterCard gift cards and receive a coupon for $15 off your next purchase of $25 from Safeway The Fine Print Valid from September 10th till October 7th, 2014 Product/offer might not be... Read More →
Amazon Payments To No Longer Do P2P Transactions Starting October 13th, 2014
In case you haven’t already heard, Amazon Payments will be scraping person to person payments October 13th, 2014. Our Verdict You still have two months left to use this service, which you can use to rack up $2,000 in free and easy... Read More →
New Option for Liquidating Debit-cards/Gift-cards at 7-Eleven
We’d like to introduce a new way to unload debit cards – and some gift cards – using a BillPay feature at the 7-Eleven ATM. You can pay some credit card bills, such as Chase or Barclay. Okay, okay. Some of you know... Read More →
4.05% Cash Back For The First Three Months With BB&T Spectrum Rewards
Update: We got some of questions answered about this card here. A few days ago, Miles4more tagged me in a post letting me know about a credit card that could earn a potential of 4.05% cashback on all purchases for the first three months... Read More →

