Category - Misc

Chili’s has sent out an e-mail to My Chili’s Rewards members stating that they will no longer be a member of the coallition loyalty program Plenti starting May 3rd. The key dates are as follows: You’ll continue to earn... Read More →

Priority Pass is a network of lounges, a lot of readers will have complimentary access due to many premium cards offering priority pass memberships. Recently they have been adding a lot of restaurants to the network to gain a presence... Read More →

Macy’s/Plenti has sent out an e-mail letting people know that: Starting 3/15/18 you’ll no longer earn Plenti points on Macy’s purchases Starting 5/3/18 you’ll no longer be able to redeem Plenti points on... Read More →

Robinhood has announced that they are adding support for cryptocurrency. Starting today they are adding some minor support (e.g watchlist, read news etc) for 16 different cryptocurrencies. Starting in February they will offer commission... Read More →

It looks like LG will be entering the increasingly competitive mobile wallet space. The app was mistakeningly launched on January 6th, but didn’t work at all and was then quickly pulled Some things we do know based on this... Read More →

USPS rolled out a new service called Informed Delivery which sends out a daily digest via email of everything that came in the mail that day. For a lot of people, Informed Delivery is only marginally interesting, but for travelers and... Read More →

Every year I like to make a list of predictions for the upcoming year, we are getting into the swing of things for January so I thought it was a good time to finalize my predictions for 2018. You can see the predictions I and other... Read More →

For those who don’t poke around their Paypal account as much as I do, Paypal has been releasing various features to keep up with the social nature of payments and our impatient culture. As a side note it’s worth mentioning... Read More →

[Update 4/20/18: added a fifth cause.] [Update 1/8/18: We’re hearing more and more people getting shut down recently. I also added a fourth cause of shutdown being large spikes in spend on existing cards. Lots of people are not... Read More →

Every month we do a recap of the most popular posts from the previous month. I thought I’d do something similar for 2017 as a whole. I’m including all posts and pages. In the monthly recaps we only include posts/pages that... Read More →

At the start of every month I like to do a recap post of the most popular posts from the previous month. That way if readers can quickly see if they’ve missed any of the more popular deals/articles. I don’t include any posts that are no... Read More →

One of the things we’ve always prided ourselves on is listening to reader feedback and making changes based on that feedback. At the start of each new year I like to set some goals for the upcoming year. For example the two main... Read More →

Reader Jason asked me if I could put together a list of stores that let you use gift cards in Canada that were purchased in US. I said I didn’t really know of any aside from Starbucks, but he did have a list so I thought other... Read More →

Every year I like to make some predictions for the following year. I thought it would be fun to take a look at the predictions I made for 2017 to see how I did, a number of other bloggers also made predictions for 2017 so I thought... Read More →

Update: They now have an annual fee option of $49 annually. I still think that is prohibitively expensive. Service is a website that monitors your flight itineraries in your inbox for delayed or cancelled flights, specifically looking... Read More →