This one can be chalked up to “I knew better but wanted to try anyway.” A month ago, I had applied for a Chase brokerage account and was easily approved. I was banned from Chase many years ago, but did get an Ink card back in 2021. I think I’ve tried to get a Sapphire […]

At this point, it seems AMEX is looking at statements that have recently closed. When P2 got the 2nd AMEX clawback email, the statement had closed on June 14th with $15K of 4X grocery spend. However, I had 2 other charges on June 15th and 16th that they hadn’t clawed back yet. Well that statement […]

This has been working now for over a year I think, but I never got around to blogging about it. I tried it again last night and it worked, so here’s the trick: No idea if this works with Google Voice or Textnow numbers. If you re-use an old phone number, the coupon code will […]

I swear the Safeway J4U IT team consists of one guy who just doesn’t give a shit about his job. I had written about the ability to clip multiples of the same reward earlier this month. A few days after that post, they removed that ability and you were back to 1 per reward. And […]

My wife’s Global Entry apparently had expired back in 2021. However we didn’t know it until we went on a trip last week and noticed she didn’t have PRECHECK anymore. Sure enough, we logged onto the GE site and it showed the expiration and a conditional approval. They had 2 interview options – one for […]