Amazon Prime Day begins today. If you’ve somehow managed to miss the lead-up sales and previous years, Prime Day is a summertime shopping holiday that Amazon has developed over the past couple of years...
When shopping portals run big promotions, it sometimes pays to buy things just for the shopping portal points. For example, early last year, the British Airways shopping portal briefly offered 36 points per dollar...
by Trevor Mountcastle, author of Tagging Miles
“Manufactured Spend” is a collection of techniques for increasing credit card spend in ways that results in getting most or all of your money back. The reasons for...
Welcome to the Frequent Miler Week In Review series. Every weekend we recap what you might have missed from around the web. Enjoy!
This Week Around the Web
A Year of Reselling: A Million Miles/Points Earned, Lessons Learned & Going...
There was a time when the US Mint sold dollar coins online at face value, with free shipping, and allowed customers to pay with credit cards. The coins were incredibly popular. People bought the...
One of my earliest experiments with reselling came in 2012 when the British Airways shopping portal offered 36 points per dollar for first time users shopping at Nordstrom. I knew I wanted to take...
This past weekend, Sears ran a promotion in which they offered 9 points per dollar through the Southwest Rapid Rewards Shopping Portal. 9X is very good, but the deal was particularly interesting because the...
Last week, Yahoo Travel published an article titled “A Million Frequent Flier Miles for $1,000? Here's How.” It was a short piece that briefly covered an adventure I undertook last year. In March 2013,...