Introduction You remember that FU points post I wrote a few weeks ago? Well, this was my first points redemption for non-travel. I had gotten my Hilton Diamond card in the mail a few months ago and in the brochure, it mentioned something like, “more ways to use your points – redeem them for concerts.” […]
Introduction A few days ago, after I wrote about the change from giftcards.com. A reader gave me a tip to call and cancel my unshipped orders. I then called them up and the first line agent cancelled my last 3 days of orders and gave me a reference number. The next day, a guy from […]
Introduction Last month I had reported that giftcards.com had changed their Mastercards to Metabank. Nothing major had changed since then. However, around June 1, a new box showed up on checkout, asking you to accept the terms & conditions: When anything changes in the MS world, even something as innocuous as making you accept the terms […]
Introduction Over a year ago, I had written that I was going to pursue private labeling as a way to make some side income. A few people have asked me whatever happened with that, so I’ll give you a quick update. Product was nicer than expected I paid ~$85 for my product to be […]
Introduction I was traveling over Memorial Day and applied for a checking and savings account at a local credit union, but I was on Gogo in midair. My application went to pending. Two business days later, the bank calls me and says, “Your application was flagged because we noticed your IP address was 250 miles […]