Starbucks $10 for $20 deal Slickdeals posted this on Friday. I dusted off my army of Visa Checkout accounts from the NFL Best Buy debacle. I realized since that post 6 months ago, I no longer had about 10 of those cards due to the Chase shutdown as well as normal closings of accounts. Anyway, […]
Introduction A certain department store who has pseudo CASH and a store cc just started to introduce debit card payments to pay the credit card in store. My coworker noticed this and tried it out with some low denomination VGC. The store took it like a champ. So not a huge MS play, but it’s […]
Introduction I’m getting pretty good at this by now. This is what happens when you get out of MS and jump back in just a little bit too fast. How do you know when you’re shut down I logged on earlier in the week and saw this: Notice the credit limit available was $0 […]
Introduction Seeing as how I’ve been banned by 3 banks now – USBank, Barclays, and Chase, I figure I have enough data points to make a ranking of bank bans that would hurt the most TO ME. Let’s rank these in order of pain. #1 – American Express – “My puppy just died kind […]
2 more Barclays shutdown From a reader last weekend – “So joining the big boys league today – my Barclays accounts got axed. Not much MS, around 5-6k inconsistently, and I did cfbp 3 times each month for past 2 months and am with Vinh that it should be the primary reason for s/d. I […]