Back in July, a reader had emailed me that a certain baby store was letting you use its own GC to buy another GC and also earn the portal points. This was great to meet all those portal spend bonuses. The GCs shipped within days and he was able to cycle pretty rapidly. Not sure […]
A very experienced reader shared this story last week, and I asked if I could share it here so that you guys are aware and can be careful yourself. Don’t think just because you’re “too smart” to be scammed, this could heave easily happened to any of us. Here’s the story unedited: “I got scammed. […]
I had bought this Lego Friends Central Perk set back in early September. I thought it looked pretty cool, but I was a bit leery seeing as how I bought 2 of the big ass Lego Millenium Falcon a few years ago, which was bad enough that I sold for a loss, but the box […]
A reader was talking with a CNB concierge rep on 9/25, and was alarmed that the rep told them that point redemptions were now 1.1c versus the 1.3c that you normally were getting. Luckily, they were just early and it actually hadn’t gone into effect yet. Well, I talked to 2 reps last night and […]
Can’t say I didn’t see this coming. Chase had axed my checking account a few months ago, and I wasn’t sure why they got that card and not my Starbucks card, which I had abused. May be a chicken or the egg conundrum. Either way, it was a good ride. At least they gave me […]