{"id":10352,"date":"2024-09-17T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=10352"},"modified":"2024-09-17T09:15:58","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T15:15:58","slug":"pepper-gets-salted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/17\/pepper-gets-salted\/","title":{"rendered":"Pepper Gets Salted"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>UPDATE: Apparently Pepper&#8217;s coding has reverted to its original Computer Supplies MCC, so move along, nothing to see here kid.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/gopepper.com\">Pepper gift card buying platform<\/a>, one of the best vehicles in 2024 for transferring money from venture capitalist bank accounts to resellers wallets, had a change to its merchant account coding on Saturday: Charges are no longer showing as &#8220;Merchandise &amp; Supplies &#8211; Computer Supplies&#8221;, but rather &#8220;Merchandise &amp; Supplies &#8211; General Retail&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reportedly this change was intentional and forced on Pepper, and it won&#8217;t be reverted anytime soon. That means:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>American Express Business Gold cards won&#8217;t earn 4x<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>American Express Business Platinum cards won&#8217;t earn 1.5x<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bank of America Business Advantage cards won&#8217;t earn +3x for Computer Services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>That doesn&#8217;t mean the game is over, but it does mean that the game has shifted to cards which have a high overall payout for general spend, and potentially for cards like the legacy Citi AT&amp;T Access More or the Bank of America Customized Cash personal card. Of course, cards that can earn extra by looping FinTechs might be good replacements too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Good luck!<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"782\" height=\"706\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/image-13.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10354\" style=\"width:420px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/image-13.png 782w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/image-13-300x271.png 300w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/image-13-768x693.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 782px) 100vw, 782px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\">Live view of Pepper&#8217;s internals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: Apparently Pepper&#8217;s coding has reverted to its original Computer Supplies MCC, so move along, nothing to see here kid. The Pepper gift card buying<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gift-cards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10352"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10359,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10352\/revisions\/10359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}