- Capital One has a 250,000 mile sign-up bonus for the Venture X Business Mastercard after $50,000 in tiered spend, effectively making this a 7x card for the first $50,000. The annual fee is still $395, and there’s also still an easily gameable $300 travel credit. What’s new is that holders of other Capital One Spark cards can hold this card too unlike before.
You need to apply through a business relationship banker, but calling your closest branch and asking to speak to one is really all that it takes. - Staples has fee free $200 Visa gift cards starting Sunday and running through the following Saturday, limit eight per transaction. As usual, try for multiple transactions back-to-back to optimize your time, and have a liquidation plan in place because these are
MetabankPathward gift cards (the new varieties of these work in places that the old ones don’t though). (Thanks to GCG) - Do this now (if you have a premium Delta credit card): Reprice any existing award bookings and get a mileage refund where applicable, since 15% off of award prices for card holders on Delta metal is now live. For me, this was largely a mixed bag: roughly 70% of my flights priced at the same as their previous booking rate, but there were several that went down by a few thousand miles.
- Simon’s volume site has free shipping and no processing fees on Visa and Mastercard gift cards running through February 5 with promo code FEB23SHIP. These are also
MetabankPathward gift cards. - Brex has a 25% transfer bonus to Avianca Lifemiles. Sweet spots:
– Business class to Europe, especially when regions are fuzzy (35,000+ miles)
– Business class to South America (50,000+ miles)
– Economy flights to the Caribbean (12,500 miles)
– Short-haul domestic US economy (7,500 miles) - Delta’s business credit cards have increased sign-up bonuses through referrals and public links:
– Business Reserve: 100,000 miles for $6,000 spend in three months
– Business Platinum: 95,000 miles for $4,000 spend in three months
– Business Gold: 75,000 miles for $3,000 spend in three months
The personal versions of these cards have similar offers via referral only, the public offers for personal cards are lower. As always, use P2 or a friend’s referral when applying if possible. These are notMetabankPathward gift cards.

Weekend punch made from blended Metabank Pathward gift cards