{"id":10522,"date":"2024-10-16T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=10522"},"modified":"2024-10-15T17:15:53","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T23:15:53","slug":"wednesday-collusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/16\/wednesday-collusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Collusion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m not saying banks colluded to drop a bunch of card linked and spend offers on the same day, but banks colluded to drop a bunch of card linked and spend offers on the same day:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/18\/unsung-hero-citi-shop-your-way-rewards-mastercard\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"3080\">Citi Shop Your Way Rewards Mastercard<\/a>, a phoenix that rose from the ashes of Sears, sent new mid-month spending offers for cumulative online spend:<br><br>&#8211; 250,000 Shop Your Way Rewards points after $1,000+<br>&#8211; 200,000 Shop Your Way Rewards points after $750+<br>&#8211; $70 statement credit after $1,000+<br>&#8211; $50 statement credit after $750+<br>&#8211; $30 statement credit after $500+<br><br>If your utility takes online payments, these will stack with those offers too. (Thanks to Ben, MS Ninja, Adam W, Jen T)<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.citi.com\/login?nextRoute=products-offers\/merchantoffers\">Citi Merchant Offers has an offer for a 4% statement credit<\/a> on up to $750 spend at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cashbackmonitor.com\/cashback-store\/giftcards.com\/\">Giftcards.com<\/a> through November 10, two uses per card. <br><br>In addition to Pathward Visa and Mastercards, giftcards.com sells lots of third party cards.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanexpress.com\/en-us\/benefits\/offers\/\">American Express Offers<\/a> has two gameable offers:<br><br>&#8211; $150 off of $750 or more booked with Carnival Cruises<br>&#8211; $150 off of $700 or more at Hawaiian Hyatt Hotels<br>&#8211; $200 off of $1,000 or more at Fontainebleau Las Vegas<br><br>Mahalo AmEx, and also stay classy. (Thanks to Shredder05)<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/secure.chase.com\/web\/auth\/dashboard#\/dashboard\/merchantOffers\/offer-hub\">Chase Offers has 10% back on up to $570 in spend at IHG hotels<\/a> through December 5.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chase.com\/personal\/credit-cards\/education\/basics\/chase-transfer-partners-everything-you-need-to-know\">Chase Ultimate Rewards has a 40% transfer bonus to Virgin Atlantic Flying Club<\/a> through November 30.<br><br>This is an abnormally high bonus, but we know that <a href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/01\/spooky-tuesday\/\">Virgin is devaluing their award chart on October 30<\/a>, so maybe this bonus won&#8217;t even make up for price changes?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Happy Wednesday!<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"678\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/816Dni3cMbL-678x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10523\" style=\"width:419px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/816Dni3cMbL-678x1024.jpg 678w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/816Dni3cMbL-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/816Dni3cMbL-768x1161.jpg 768w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/816Dni3cMbL-1016x1536.jpg 1016w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/816Dni3cMbL-1355x2048.jpg 1355w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/816Dni3cMbL-1320x1995.jpg 1320w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/816Dni3cMbL.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\">Upcoming expose about boring bank stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not saying banks colluded to drop a bunch of card linked and spend offers on the same day, but banks colluded to drop a<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10522","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=10522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10524,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10522\/revisions\/10524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}