1. The three main Vanilla/Incomm gift card sites have fee-free Visa, Mastercard, and American Express gift cards:

    VanillaGift.com fee-free through October 31 with promo code VGSHOP24
    MasterCardGiftCard.com fee-free through October 31 SHOPEARLY21
    TheGiftCardShop.com fee-free through October 28 with promo code CCHOLIDAY24

    American Express cards won’t earn points on these transactions, but no longer cash advance either. Let’s hope for another SHOPEARLY2021 debacle with one or more of these codes.
  2. American Express has increased offers on several business cards via referrals, with up to 40,000 points for the referrer and:

    – 200,000 Membership Rewards after $15,000 spend on the Business Gold
    – 250,000 Membership Rewards after $20,000 spend on the Business Platinum

    It’s ok for P1 to refer P2 and vice-versa, even if they share an address. To really play fast and loose, get the Business Gold, wait two statements, get a retention offer (hopefully), get some employee cards, the use the 120,000 Membership Rewards upgrade link which will hopefully still be around.
  3. Albertsons, Vons, Safeway, and other Just4U stores have 10x points on Zillions and Zift Zillions gift cards through Saturday night. If you wait to buy until Saturday and clip the 4x gift cards coupon, you’ll earn 12x and last time I checked, 12x > 10x. But also last time I checked, 10x + 4x = 14x, so there’s that.

    What’s a Zift? That’s a great question, I’m so glad you asked. I can only assume it’s a zebra themed British elevator.

Zift, prolly