It’s wild that we have another change to the J4U program. It seems they have changed the $ off rewards to be a) monthly instead of weekly and b) a max of 4 times. The net effect is similar since when they were weekly, assume 4 weeks in a month, you got to use the […]
My wife and I got the clawback emails last night. Let’s talk about hers first. I didn’t know how many points were deducted, so I chatted with a rep who at first couldn’t find it and mentioned her Schwab cashout. I told him that wasn’t it and he eventually told me 12K points had been […]
If you’ve shopped at Safeway in the past month, you should have seen the receipt print out a slip of paper to play their Flavor Adventure game (I guess it’s their Monopoly replacement.) It’s a game where for every $10 you spend at Safeway, you get a free spin. And if you complete the board […]
AMEX RAT had been taking a break for a while since COVID, but now they are back out in full force. I’m guessing AMEX got tired of top line revenue numbers and want to hit profitability numbers by killing manufactured spending. On Wednesday was when the first reports of AMEX clawbacks came and I heard […]
Let’s talk about what a freight forwarder is first – it’s when an international buyer buys an item from you in the US and you ship it to a warehouse located in the US. That freight forwarding service then sends the item overseas to the buyer. MOST freight forward transactions on eBay have no issues, […]