Stop & Shop, Giant, Giant Food, and Martins 6x points on third party gift cards through Thursday. Per-account limits are either $500, $1,500 $2,000, or $500 on Zift and $2,000 on everything else depending on the chain because why A/B test when you can A/B/C/D/Q/Y test?
– Chase Freedom (Flex): Gas, EV charging, public transit, “select” live entertainment, and the United Way – Discover IT: Gas, transportation, and drug stores – Citi Dividend: Gas and home improvement – US Bank Cash+: I choose utilities and electronics
– New Wyndham Rewards Earner Premier Visa 4x on dining, grocery, and travel; $395 annual fee; 90,000 points after $6,000 spend in four months, 30,000 more points after $750+ at Wyndham hotel properties; lots of stupid coupons; Diamond status – Updated personal and business cards: annual fees go up, manufactured spend friendly category multipliers go down, sign-up bonuses go up, new stupid coupons, miles don’t expire – Existing cardholders retain existing benefits and spending category multipliers, will be able to switch to the new versions of the cards in the nebulous future
– Bookings are restricted to first party and a maximum of 10 other people – 6 of the other people are from your “Family & Friends” pool – 4 of the other people are form your “My List” profile – Those 10 accounts must have a Qatar credit card or flight credited to the Avios account and be at least 30 days old, though transfers from FinnAir also seem to work
Now is a good time to create accounts for other players that don’t have them yet.
– Business Gold: 90,000 SkyMiles after $4,000 spend in three months, annual fee waived first year – Business Platinum: 110,000 SkyMiles after $6,000 spend in three months – Business Reserve: 125,000 SkyMiles after $10,000 spend in three months
These are available via referral, but you’ll lose the NLL boon.
– Each Paze eligible card now has ten $10 off of $10+ statement credits through the end of the month – 10x earning on up to $1,500 spend monthly on Chase cards is still there – Newegg was removed from eligible Paze merchants for most purchases thanks to blatant abuse – Newegg will be removed entirely from Paze on July 1 – Other banks have Paze eligible cards with Paze games waiting
Can I Paze someone to have everyone stop talking about it now?
Stop & Shop, Giant, Giant Food, and Martins 6x points on third party gift cards through Thursday. Per-account limits are either $500, $2,000, or $500 on Zift and $2,000 on everything else depending on the chain because uniformity is overrated.
Giftcards.com remains a great way to do this, or as reader Sean mentions, buy a gift card that you’d use anyway like Safeway or Home Depot at Newegg via Paze to double dip.
– Transfers to Hyatt will be 4:3 on June 15 for new cards and October 1 for existing cards – The annual 10% rewards bonus ends on June 15 for new cards and October 1 for existing cards – 3x earning on gas, EV charging, Airbnb, and VRBO – A new Global Entry / PreCheck credit since the other 14 you have aren’t enough – Changed travel insurance – A one-time Apple TV coupon
Generally speaking this is a negative change, but don’t worry if you want a positive spin from lala land, TPG has your back: “And at a time when many travel cards are becoming increasingly expensive and complicated, there’s a strong argument that the Sapphire Preferred just became an even better fit for casual travelers.” Erm, ok.
For those of you that like it when portal-like companies that you’ve never heard of team up with business banks that you’ve never heard of, there’s a $300 promotion between Finder and Grasshopper. To earn a $300 Finders gift card which can apparently be turned into a Visa e-gift card:
Manufactured spend newbie spoiler alert: Visas and Mastercards aren’t the same, and there’s different value in both. There also aren’t that many 2.5x / 2x everywhere business Mastercards around.
– Refer four new accounts by June 14 – Have each new account invest $5
If you don’t have your own Acorns link yet, ask a friend for theirs. If that doesn’t work, reach out to me and I’ll happily share a random churner’s referral. (Thanks to DDG)
Let’s start with a PSA and a disclaimer, but in reverse order: I don’t work in marketing and I have no formal training in marketing, so smart money would ignore anything I have to say about the subject. With that out of the way, dear marketers: If you want to make a splash, maybe don’t wait until the second half of the first week in colloquial summer to launch a campaign.
With that out of the way, let’s talk about some new marketing campaigns.
The American Express Delta cards have new sign-up bonuses:
– Gold (via dummy booking): 60,000 miles + $500 credit after $3,000 spend in six months and a single Delta purchase – Gold: 90,000 SkyMiles after $5,000 spend in six months – Platinum: 100,000 SkyMiles after $6,000 spend in six months – Reserve: 125,000 SkyMiles after $9,000 spend in six months – Business Gold: 90,000 SkyMiles after $6,000 spend in six months – Business Platinum: 100,000 SkyMiles after $8,000 spend in six months – Business Reserve: 125,000 SkyMiles after $15,000 spend in six months
These are all available via referral, except for the dummy booking version. If you’re going for one where a referral is available, use a friend’s link and make their day.
– Gold, Platinum, and Reserve cards, both personal and business, get a second free checked bag – Personal Gold cards get a (lame) $10 monthly statement credit on rideshare
One of these is objectively nice, and one seems nice but is really just more work for you.
With the previous marketing disclaimer still in full force, Frontier did a good job of making you look twice at their promo, good show. (Thanks to David)
Have a nice weekend friends!
Actually, maybe some promotions are better launched in the second half of the first week of summer. (Thanks to Lea)
