***UPDATE TO YESTERDAY’S ARTICLE*** Yesterday, we published the article that appears below, outlining what we thought was a very clever stack of deals that would result in earning 9x transferable points for gift cards you can use for future purchases…
Let’s jump right in to an interesting collection of Middle Age Miles “News & Notes” for today: 1. AAdvantage 25% Bonus on Some Hotel Point Transfers AAdvantage launched a new promo with a 25% bonus for converting hotel loyalty points…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…