On Monday, I wrote about my issue with some hacked Amazon gift cards at Safeway. I tried to get help from Amazon, but they were of no use saying that because I didn’t buy it from them, then they couldn’t help me, which we all know makes no sense since they blocked my account thinking […]
Let’s say there’s a store that sells widgets that will take payment in candy corn and gummy bears. Sometimes when you buy something and only have a few gummy bears on you, you can pay in candy corn combined with gummy bears. If for some reason you didn’t want the item and returned it later, the […]
I got the dreaded certified letter from First Tech on October 1 basically telling me to stop my manufactured spend activity. Others who have gotten this in the past have gotten it because they would have received an internal FT transfer and then pay their credit cards with the incoming funds, which in FT’s eyes […]
I wrote about 2 in store cashback programs the past few months – Get Pei and Bumped. Let’s look into each one of them. Get Pei – I think they’re still in beta and a few of you are in it. There were some tracking issues at first, but I think that’s been resolved. I […]
Introduction If you’re an MS’er (casual and semi hard core,) then you should have been hitting that Plastiq promo. If you’re a hard core MS’er with a friendly Walmart, then you probably didn’t care. If you live in an MS wasteland like NY or SF, then you should have cared even if you didn’t. Here […]