{"id":1059,"date":"2021-03-01T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=1059"},"modified":"2023-04-18T14:42:32","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T20:42:32","slug":"follow-up-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/01\/follow-up-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"Follow-Up Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few follow up items:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1.<\/strong> <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2021\/01\/12\/sofi-and-debbit\/\">The SoFi matched round-ups deal <\/a>is back in March. A quick recap: You turn on round-ups in the mobile app, create a \u201cvault\u201d, then when you spend with the SoFi debit card the charge is rounded up to the nearest dollar and the difference is placed in your vault. SoFi will match those round-ups up to a total of $25 matched. Can you guess what I\u2019m going to say next? <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2020\/12\/03\/automating-spend\/\">Set up debbit<\/a> to make 28 payments to XFinity of $0.10 in March. Of course, you can make payments with debbit to other stores and providers too if you don\u2019t have XFinity. <\/p>\n<p><em>Side note: It took me longer to type the above paragraph than to update my debbit config for $25. I wish I could always make $25 for 30 seconds of work; that\u2019d be $3,000 per hour.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>2.<\/strong> Reader Katie discovered that when you\u2019re activating Ting burner SIMs, you won\u2019t see port-out information on the account unless you set a password. Ting\u2019s IT must be based on Citi\u2019s IT; fortunately for them they probably don\u2019t have <a aria-label=\"$500 million to lose accidentally (opens in a new tab)\" class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/jonathanponciano\/2021\/02\/16\/citi-cant-get-back-500-million-it-accidentally-wired-to-revlon-lenders-federal-judge-rules\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">$500 million to lose accidentally<\/a> like Citi.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3.<\/strong> Another round of Amazon discounts is available for targeted Ultimate Rewards cards. <a aria-label=\"Check for the offer here  (opens in a new tab)\" class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/b?node=21328382011&amp;_encoding=UTF8\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Check for the offer here <\/a>after ensuring that your Amazon account has at least one Ultimate Rewards earning credit card saved in your profile. As per usual, buy a non-Amazon gift card for resale and use a single point.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4.<\/strong> The promo code <em>FLASH2020<\/em> is still going strong for buying fee free <a aria-label=\"Vanilla Visa Gift Cards (opens in a new tab)\" class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/vanillagift.com\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vanilla Visa Gift Cards<\/a>. These gift cards aren\u2019t as widely discussed online as BlackHawk, MetaBank, or US Bank gift cards, so don\u2019t treat them as behaving the same. Try some things with those Vanillas even if they don\u2019t work with other gift cards!<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-editorskit-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1063\" height=\"327\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/dip-switch.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/dip-switch.png 450w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/dip-switch-300x218.png 300w\" width=\"450\"\/><figcaption>The Citi wire transfer system user interface, soon to be adopted by Ting Mobile.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few follow up items: 1. The SoFi matched round-ups deal is back in March. A quick recap: You turn on round-ups in the mobile<\/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":1,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[52,53,12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automation","category-gift-cards","category-ms-hints","category-quick-hits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059","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=1059"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7346,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions\/7346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}