One of my good friends is getting married in Hawaii next year, and instead of buying them items off their registry, I decided to use my miles & points expertise to buy them 2 first class tickets to Hawaii as their wedding gift. I checked Alaska’s web site and sure enough, it costs 40K Alaska […]
Update – as of January 11, 2016, NW Buxx cards have changed the load limits on the card. See FM’s post for full details. I’ve stopped using the cards, but it might still be usable for you. I have had my USBank Buxx Visa prepaid debit cards for years now. It used to be a […]
I had known about this deal for a while now, but a buddy reminded me of it yesterday. With all the stores around me now only accepting debit cards with names on them, that means it’s harder to liquidate those prepaid debit cards. So this will be a good backup option for that. Also, I […]
I had gotten this card in December 2013, and they just billed me $95 for my 2nd annual fee. The card gave me 50K miles on signup if I spent $3K. I did that and put the card away ever since. So today I called to cancel and I got these retention offers: Spend $3,000 […]
[Update 4/17/2015 – The original post was written on January 1, 2015. Evolve is now charging a 3% fee for using gift cards on their site. Therefore, this post and really Evolve is irrelevant now; I’m just keeping it here for posterity sake.] People have a love/hate relationship with Evolve. It’s a long story, […]