Tons to cover in today’s Middle Age Miles “News & Notes”: 1. Staples No Longer on In-Store Portals/Apps As we first reported yesterday evening in our “MS DP Series – Follow-Up Part 1” article, Staples is no longer on a…
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MS DP Series – Follow-Up Part 1 – Reviewing Episodes 1-4
Introduction Our recent Manufactured Spend Data Points (MS DP) series proved to be very popular. As regular readers will recall, we started off as total rookies on the subject of MS with Visa Gift Cards (VGCs) and Mastercard Gift Cards…
Middle Age Miles News & Notes 9/9/19 – Amex Offers for Waldorf/Conrad, Marriott & ESPN+; Upromise for Choice & IHG; AAdvantage eShopping Promo; Dosh/Kroger
It’s the first edition of our new “News & Notes” series that we promised in our recent “1st Birthday” article! We hope that we can use this series to get out to our readers more tricks, tips and news that…
Update to MS DP Episode 8 – Doxo No Longer Working to Liquidate US Bank VGCs
Executive Summary In Episode 8 of our Manufactured Spend Data Points (MS DP) series, we discussed successful online liquidation for US Bank-issued Visa Gift Cards for low fees using the DoxoPlus subscription feature at Doxo.com. At this time, these cards…
Withdrawals from Cashback Apps – Dosh, Drop & Pei – How Long Does It Take?
Introduction Dosh, Drop and Pei are all credit card-linked apps that allow you to earn cash back (or points) for your purchases at certain specified retail merchants. As part of our recent experiments involving manufactured spend (MS) through gift card…
MS DPs – Episode 5 – 2 $250 Vanilla MCGCs from Sam’s Club
In Episode 5 of our Manufactured Spend Data Points (MS DPs) series, we’ll look at two $250 variable-load Vanilla Mastercard Gift Cards (MCGCs) that we purchased from Sam’s Club on July 24. The driver for a Sam’s Club deal, aside…
MS DPs – Episode 4 – more $200 MCGCs from Staples
In Episode 4 of our Manufactured Spend Data Points (MS DPs) series, we’ll review two more purchases of Mastercard Gift Cards (MCGCs) that we purchased from Staples on July 24 & 25, during a promotion where these cards could be…
MS DPs – Episode 3 – $500 VGC from Central Market
In Episode 3 of our Manufactured Spend Data Points (MS DPs) series, we’ll look at a $500 Visa Gift Card (VGC) that we purchased from Central Market on July 23, 2019. The card was a variable-load Vanilla VGC, loaded to…
MS DPs – Episode 2 – $200 MCGC from Staples
In Episode 2 of our Manufactured Spend Data Points (MS DPs) series, we’ll look at a $200 Mastercard Gift Card (MCGC) that we purchased from Staples last week (mid-July 2019), during a promotion where this card could be purchased with…
MS DPs – Episode 1 – $200 VGC from Staples
In the first episode of our Manufactured Spend Data Points (MS DPs) series, we’ll look at a $200 Visa Gift Card (VGC) that we purchased from Staples in early May, during a promotion where this card could be purchased with…