Ever since the Chase Starbucks prepaid Visa card launched, you could add the card to Venmo and pay someone. It was essentially a pajama play – load the card with money, liquidate with Venmo (3K a week so let’s call it 12K a month.) That nets you 1200 Starbucks stars a month. You can then […]
I’ve been buying about $4K of money orders per trip to Walmart since Simon started their promo. So this has been going on for about 2-3 months now. I’d average about 2 trips a week. Remember when you go over $1K, you need to provide your driver’s license. When you go over $3K, then you […]
Man, it had been a while since I had been shut down. For this one, I had no idea why I got shut down. Here’s the letter I got: And here’s my checking account activity: As you can see, I had legit payroll ACH into the account. I had 3 Zelle payments back in April […]
While I was never able to take advantage of this loophole (all my Safeways were strict on CASH ONLY,) but I had heard murmurs that if you got a willing cashier, you could swipe a cc instead of a debit. This lasted for quite a long time too. Anyhow, I gave it a shot not […]
Well it had been a while since I’ve been shut down. This one I was only sort of surprised at. I was running quite a bit of volume on the card – I don’t know – is $12K-$15K of spend on the card a month for the past 3-4 months that much? The odd thing […]