Introduction A reader shared this with me on Friday afternoon. This East coast grocery chain had a programming error whereby they should have taken $10 off $50 or more, but ended up programming the promo to be $10 off every $50, thus a $500 MGC was ringing up with a $100 discount. I wanted so […]
Introduction The issue started around May 1 around 6PM PST from the data points that I’ve gathered. At that time, if you tried to re-order some Mastercard gift cards, you got this error: New Design Usually this happens when your design is discontinued. So I tried to create a new design and add to cart […]
Introduction I was on the fence about posting this because I didn’t want to come off like a showoff. Just remember that the impetus of this blog was for me to track how many miles and points I could accrue over a year. I did that monthly in 2015 and then quarterly in 2016 and […]
Introduction You would think that by now I wouldn’t make silly mistakes, but carelessness happens to the both of us. So what happened? I bought a $500 VGC from our favorite grocery chain and forgot to Sharpie the pin down on the white strip that I normally do. I went to liquidate the card and […]
Introduction A reader of mine shared this story with me, and I asked him permission to share with you readers so that we can all learn from these bans. This reader has been an Ebates member for a while now, and back in September/October, there was a pretty lucrative deal, which I may or may […]