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New Chase Freedom Unlimited Will Earn 1.5% UR Points
There’s been talk about the new Chase Freedom Unlimited card for a while now and we knew that it was expected to come out soon and that it would earn 1.5% and it wouldn’t have an annual fee. What we didn’t know was whether that 1.5% would be just a flat cash back (similar to…
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Aldi Supermarkets Start Accepting Credit Cards
The German grocery chain Aldi offers cheap prices but until recently, only accepted cash and debit cards as forms of payment. That probably kept a few people away, since they couldn’t earn a 5% category bonus. But even without that 5%, Aldi was probably the better choice due to their low prices. Now they have started…
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Amex Adds “Once Per Lifetime” Restrictions To Business Cards
The bad news keep on rolling in this year. Some of the best churnable cards out there will be limited to once per lifetime. It’s the American Express Business cards. Amex already has this limit in place for personal credit cards. If you’ve had a certain card previously, then you can’t get a bonus even…
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Starbucks Rewards Changing To Revenue Based
Starbucks announced Monday that starting in April, customers will no longer receive one star per visit. Instead, they will receive two stars for each dollar spent. That sounds pretty good, but as you’d guess, there’s a “star devaluation” to go along with it. Starbucks is also changing how “gold” status and perks are calculated. Right now, customers receive gold…
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Amazon Free Shipping Now Has $49 Minimum
Amazon has raised its free shipping minimum to $49 for its non-Prime customers for most products. That’s up from $35, the first time it increased the minimum order requirement since 2013. Back then the increase was from $25 to $35. At least one category isn’t affected, though: book orders only need to hit $25 to qualify for…
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Gyft Axes Rewards Program
Gyft has axed the 2% reward program that made it a good option for buying gift cards. Gyft users will not be able to earn Points on gift card purchases anymore. Users will still be able to use their Points they’ve already earned and those Points will not expire until the end of the calendar…
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Marriott Devaluation Coming March 26th
Marriott has published their list of hotels that are changing categories or tiers in 2016. The category or tier determines how many points are required for free nights. I’m calling this a devaluation since most of the changes are in the wrong direction, making lots of hotels more expensive. DoC has crunched the numbers. A total of 797…
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2016 SPG Category Changes Taking Effect March 1st
Starwood’s annual Category changes will take effect on March 1, 2016. A substantial number of their properties, 282 hotels, are changing categories. That’s about a quarter of the SPG lineup. As expected, this means that SPG hotels are getting more expensive, but not all of them. 168 hotels are moving up the category chasin and 114 hotels are going down.…
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Credit Card Funding No Longer Available For CitiGold
Citi has some great offers for their CitiGold Checking account such at these recent ones that offered 40K TYP or 50K AA miles. What made these offers even greater was the ability to fund these accounts with a credit card up to $100,000. This is almost like a second signup bonus for most people with a…
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What Happens When Amazon Loses Your Items?
Selling stuff on Amazon is usually straight forward, until problems arise. I had one of these problems recently, where Amazon lost my items. Well let me go back a bit, before getting into the lost items part. I’ve mentioned that I’m not a expert Amazon seller, but I’ve been doing fine so far. Well I…
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Selling On Amazon? Watch Out For Scammers
I do a little bit of selling on Amazon, mostly laptops, iPads and few other items that I might find that looks like a good deal. I use Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) to sell my items. That means that you ship your products to Amazon’s fulfillment centers, and they store it until it sells and then they pack, ship, and…
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Visa Rebate Cards From Staples Now With PIN
Staples usually runs week-long promos offering rebates on Visa/Mastercard gift card purchases. You submit your rebate at Staples Easy Rebates website and you receive either a Staples Gift Card or a Staples Visa Prepaid Card. It’s usually $20 and sometimes $15. Staples Gift Cards can only be used at Staples (or you can sell them),…