I realize we’re in April already and I’m just now getting around to listing my prediction for what 2019 is.  I started back in January and drafted ‘2019 is the year of the buyer’s club,’ but that door is slowly closing.  That’s when I couldn’t think of anything else until the other day.  Remember, 2018 […]

Let’s say there’s a store that sells widgets that will take payment in candy corn and gummy bears.  Sometimes when you buy something and only have a few gummy bears on you, you can pay in candy corn combined with gummy bears.  If for some reason you didn’t want the item and returned it later, the […]

I got the dreaded certified letter from First Tech on October 1 basically telling me to stop my manufactured spend activity.  Others who have gotten this in the past have gotten it because they would have received an internal FT transfer and then pay their credit cards with the incoming funds, which in FT’s eyes […]

I’m sure all of you know USPS blocked practically all VGC late last year.  However, some of you may not know that for a few weeks in February, the MGCs from giftcards.com started working again.  I’m assuming this is due to when they enabled the chip card readers.  Luckily, I didn’t buy too much to test.  […]

I actually don’t know if this still works anymore, but it SHOULD WORK since I don’t think anything has changed since last October.  Anyway, let’s say you were to open a business account with the largest online payment provider and during the process, it asks you what category of business you were in and you […]