What Is It? Dynamic Currency Conversion (DCC) is a way for merchants to charge you in your home billing currency rather than in their own currency. Let’s look at an example to better illustrate the difference between DCC and a... Read More →
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Free Gas for Purchasing Gift Cards at Stop & Shop or Giant
Arielle posted a few months ago about a free gas opportunity by buying gift cards at Stop & Shop or Giant Foods. A similar offer is going now. The gist of the offer is that you’ll get up to $2.20 off per gallon (or more in... Read More →
Get $20 Free Amazon Credit When You Use Your Membership Rewards Points To Pay
The Offer Amazon & American Express have partnered for a similar promotion to the one that Discover was offering where you can get a $20 Amazon credit when you use American Express points to pay for Amazon purchases for the first... Read More →
Saving Money At Grocery Stores Using Apps
There are a number of apps that will give you cashback or a discount when you shop at a grocery store. The great thing about these apps is that they are all stackable and you usually just need to scan your receipt. I thought it’d... 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 →
Product Change Your Useless BofA Cards And Earn Up To $120/yr Per Card
Update 4: Rapid Travel Chai confirms that as of May, 2015 it’s still possible to product change to the BBR. Just keep trying till you get a CSR that can actually help you. Update 3: Oren’s Money Saver confirms this is still... 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 →
Small Moneymaker on Ebay
GiftCardMall on Ebay is currently running a discount on Staples gift cards. Direct Link $100 Staples gift card for $85 Limit 2 per buyer It just started sometime within the last 6-12 hours (I think), and already 6,152 sold out. I doubt... 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 →
Amex For Target (update)
See my original post: Amex Gift Cards: Observations, Musings… and Woes. I previously reported that some Target stores no longer accept Amex cards to load Amex For Target (AFT). I now believe that this is incorrect; I’m now... Read More →
Amex Offer: $20 off $100 at J Crew, Possible Money-maker
You can see our introduction to AmEx Offers here. See also How to Sign Up for Multiple American Express Sync Offers. The Offer Spend $100 at J Crew or jcrew.com and receive a $20 statement credit. This is a targeted offer; it’s... Read More →
New restrictions on Evolve Money Payments
Not all change is good, and it seems that Evolve Money is moving further and further away from being the gift card friendly company it once labeled itself as.  In the past the online billing company has said that it is committed to... Read More →
Walgreens Deal: $5 Walgreens Gift Card when you buy 2 Vanilla Gift Cards 8/24-30
While Vanilla gift cards may not be the flavor of the month due to technical difficulties at Walmart in recent months, a half price activation fee is an inciting offer to pick up a few. The Offer Starting 8/24/14 Walgreens is... Read More →