It was about 6 months ago when I tried to do one of the Starbucks spin games where you had to log into your account and spin the wheel. For some reason, I couldn’t log in and even after a password reset, I couldn’t log in. I didn’t think much of it and last week, […]

A few weeks ago, I had bought 5 VGC for $500 each, all on separate transactions at Safeway. My store knows me really well and are okay with this volume. Every once in a while, the cashiers will tell me, “Oh yeah, we got a call after you left asking about the purchases.” Usually the […]

I’ve lost count on how many times I’ve been shut down by Paypal. I had heard of a mini wave of shutdowns in early January, but I figured the train had left the station for my account anyway. Sure enough, about two weeks ago, Paypal asked me to verify some transactions basically asking me what […]

A few weeks ago, someone told me that their Gamestop points couldn’t be redeemed in store and wanted to see if my account was fine. At the time, I had about 470K points and was able to redeem $100 worth of certificates, leaving me with 370K. I then went into a Gamestop store last week […]

Back in March, a certain unnamed grocery store chain gave out 22X per $1 spent on VGC. The odd thing is that 1) there were no coupons for VGC, 2) only certain SKU’s triggered the 22X, and more importantly 3) it’s not replicable every month. Meaning even if I circled and arrows this today, you […]