First off, alert everyone that lives in your house to NOT OPEN THE SHIPPING BOX. Once your coin arrives and you have it in hand, request a label below. You’ll then be emailed a prepaid label. Then tape the new label over the existing label and then drop it off at UPS (NOT a driver […]
I don’t have the exact timing, but it takes about 45 days from your statement close to see your miles post to the JAL site. For instance, my 2nd statement closed on 6/13/25 and today is 7/28/25 and I see the miles already in my account. Here’s my life status points accrual so far. This […]
Older posts: This post was delayed because I thougtht I was axed. After my June 15 statement closed, my card was blocked from charging. I tried for a few days at different places and it was always rejected. I waited a week for a letter in the mail because I figured I was axed for […]
I really should stop assuming none of the new dotted vanilla VGCs are tamper-proof. So what happened? Well, I had recently bought a lot of VGC at my local grocery store and opened up the packages and piled them up on my desk waiting to be activated at https://balance.mastercardgiftcard.com. It’s because that stupid ass web […]
After the US Mint cancelled a lot of orders earlier this week, they restocked it on 7/3. Out of the 100K coins, about 37K went back into inventory. If you deduct the 10K that goes to dealers, that means 37K out of 90K orders (over 40%) were from resellers trying to circumvent the household limits. […]