Today Staples has confirmed that approximately 1.16 million credit cards were affected in a data breach. Here is the key information: Malware was deployed at 115 of 1,400 US retail locations Malware was removed immediately upon... Read More →
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Changes To The Way ACH Transfers Are Coded & The Ramifications For Bank Bonuses
In March of 2014 the NACHA (who are responsible for development, administration, and governance of the ACH Network) released a number of new rules for how P2P (person to person) transactions would be handled, among other things. You can... Read More →
5,000/10,000 Mile Referral Bonus For The US Airways Barclay Card 50,000 Mile Offer
In case you didn’t know Barclay has increased the sign up bonus on their US Airways card. They currently have two offers: 50,000 miles after first purchase, the annual fee of $89 is not waived 50,000 miles after first purchase and... Read More →
Portal Double Dip on eBay – Success!
eBay e-Gift Cards eBay gift cards have long been available as physical gift cards via GiftCardMall on eBay. Recently, a new eBay store called Paypal Digital Gifts started selling lots of e-gift cards, including eBay e-gift cards. I was... Read More →
Free $5 Amazon Gift Card with Chime [Limited Quantity]
[UPDATE December 18, 2014: Apparently, this offer is back on. I don’t see it in my Chime account, so I didn’t mention it immediately, but I saw three other bloggers mention it already, so I figured I’d repost... Read More →
Evolve Money Disallows Discover Credit Card Payments For Some Bills & Will Allow Vanilla Reloads Starting January
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 →
Chase Ink cards after Visa Savings Edge
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 →
What Triggers The Ritz-Carlton $300 Annual Travel Credit?
In case you didn’t know the Chase Ritz-Carlton Card is now offering a 140,000 point sign up bonus after you spend $3,000 within three months of account opening (the bonus is usually 70,000 points but has gone up to 140,000 before... Read More →
Visa Gift Cards at Target.com – why it’s NOT Awesome, and more Target and Walmart Gift Card Experiments
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 →
