I had made a post about how Amazon closed my account a few years ago due to a high GC balance. I get a comment once a month or so of it happening to normal folks. So what happened here? Once again, I was adding gift cards to my Amazon account and it got up […]

One thing I’ve noticed with all these echecks from the coin buyers and buying groups is how great having a Schwab checking account is. My local CU has like a 3-5 day holding period for all checks over $5K. Most banks also have something like a $10K mobile check deposit limit. The best checking account […]

While preparing to create a new Ebay account (it’s been a year since I’ve been banned,) I opened a new Paypal account out of the blue using a new domain name, address and phone number. When it logged me in, there was a pop up and they gave me $5. Cool.

Two months ago, I wrote about a Samsung S21 deal where you had to trade in an iPhone SE to Costco and you’d get $400 credit. At the time, I wasn’t sure if T-Mobile would accept my Xfinity Mobile locked iPhone SE. I was even more worried because I mistakenly gave the Costco rep the […]

Chalk this one up to one of those weird things that I ran into that you’ll most likely won’t. Anyhow, a few years ago, I had added 99 AU’s to an AMEX Biz Plat card. I then stupidly decided to close them all just because I wasn’t using them. Now, when I try to add […]