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Kate Slowly Going Out Of Business At Walmart
Loading at Walmarts has been getting harder and harder. Personally, I haven’t been to a Walmart in a while since all my Serve/Bluebird cards are now useless thanks to the waves of shutdowns by Amex this year. But it looks like it’s getting harder even for those who still have usable Amex prepaid products. There’s many reports…
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No Fee Visa Gift Cards From AAA Till 6/30 (YMMV)
AAA is selling no fee Visa gift cards again until June 30th. This is the page where you can find the Visa gift card offer, but it is the Mid Atlantic website. There’s no limit. The gift cards are issued by Metabank and can be loaded with $10 to $500. They come with a pin. The AAA gift…
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You Can Now Have Them All… Serve/Bluebird/Redbird
After playing mean for most of 2016, Amex has started to play nice for the few people left who still have their prepaid products. We always had to make the tough choice previously when picking one of their products since you could only have one Bluebird, Serve or Redbird per social security number. Now Amex has…
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CitiBusiness AAdvantage Cards Also Add 24 Month Eligibility Rule
About three weeks ago Citi changed the language on the eligibility terms for their credit cards. From a 18 months wait to re-apply, you now need to wait 24 months, in order to get the bonus again. The new rule affected most cards but not all. CitiBusiness AAdvantage card was spared, but apparently not for long. They…
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Third Round Of BlueBird/Serve Shutdowns
You probably heard about the Bluebird/Serve shutdowns in early January and the second round in early March. Well here’s the third round of shutdown and it look like it will be a monthly affair from now on. Today there’s a new wave of emails telling people that the loading capabilities on their cards have been…
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TopCashBack Offering 1.5% CashBack For GiftCards.com
TopCashBack is another portal that is now offering cash back on gift cards purchases at GiftCards.com. They are offering a decent 1.5% in cash back. With card fees and shipping, you end up paying just $1.31 for a $500 Visa gift card. That’s about 0.25%. SimplyBestCoupon previously offered 1.5%, but have lowered the rate to…
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T-Mobile Prepaid Visa Card Will Be Discontinued
Here’s some more bad news for 2016. The T-Mobile Prepaid Visa Card will be discontinued, effective July 27th, 2016. The card was another MSing avenue, if you could buy ReloadIt cards with a credit card, which had become very difficult lately. The T-Mobile Prepaid Visa Card could be loaded with ReloadIt cards and then drained using bill-pay. The loading will be…
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Staples Rebates, Get $20 on $250+ Purchase In Visa Cards
Staples is back again with one of their $20 rebates. Haven’t seen one of these in a while. Starting on Sunday 3/13/2016 Staples is offering a $20 rebate when you purchase $250 or more in Visa gift cards. Deal ends on 3/19/2016. The $20 rebate will already give you a small profit, but when combined with one…
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Second Round Of BlueBird/Serve Shutdowns
You probably heard about the Bluebird/Serve shutdowns in early January and most likely were affected by it. For a while it looked like Amex eased down and wasn’t shutting down anymore cards. We all suspected that a second round would come, and it has. Today there’s a new wave of emails telling people that the…
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CheckFreePay Now Has $10k Monthly Limit
CheckFreePay is the BillPay provider at Walmart at Kmart where you can pay your credit card bills for a small fee (can’t pay Amex cards). This is one option to unload gift cards if you don’t have any free avenues. I’ve used them occasionally in the past, especially Kmart, when I had a few $500 GCs left that…
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Simply Best Coupons Gives 1.5% Cash Back On Visa Gift Cards
I’ve written a few times about GiftCard.com, a website where you cna purchase Visa gift cards. Just in December it started showing up on cash back portals. SimplyBestCoupons (my referral link) was offering 1% back on all gift card purchases from this website but now they’re raised the rate to 1.5% for Visa Gift Cards. You can…
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$20 Off $300 Visa GC Purchase At Office Max
Office Max is offering $20 Off your purchase of $300 in Visa gift cards, instantly. The deal is available until 12/26, in-store only. There’s a limit or 2 offers per customer, but this is not always enforced. The best option is to purchase 3 x $200 gift cards in one transaction, which gives you two instant rebates.…
