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 […]
I remember “back in the day,” I used to resell XBOX Live $100 gift cards for about 83% net on Raise. That seems to be the going rate these days as well. I was doing that because I didn’t have an XBOX and so I couldn’t use the gift cards myself. Fast forward to 2020 […]
Plastiq sent out an email yesterday: Hi Vinh, PayPal has notified us they will no longer be allowing PayPal Key debit card payments through Plastiq when your PayPal wallet is linked to a credit card. Here are a few options so you can still make your payments successfully. As of now, PayPal continues to allow […]