{"id":11397,"date":"2025-03-04T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=11397"},"modified":"2025-03-03T23:29:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T06:29:49","slug":"tuesday-marketplace-redux-gift-cards-transfer-bonuses-and-flying-blue-promos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/04\/tuesday-marketplace-redux-gift-cards-transfer-bonuses-and-flying-blue-promos\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday: Marketplace Redux, Gift Cards, Transfer Bonuses, and Flying Blue Promos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Before we dive in, let me answer a few frequently asked questions about <a href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/03\/ripples-in-the-gift-card-resale-market\/\">yesterday&#8217;s post<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>No, I&#8217;m not building an alternative gift card marketplace<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I think the opportunity for someone who successfully builds one is huge though<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Yes, there are probably a bunch of mid-tier gift card resellers that you don&#8217;t know<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You can find a recent-ish <a href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/02\/the-manufactured-spend-superbowl-2023\/\">list of reputable gift card buyers here<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>No, I wouldn&#8217;t recommend starting new with Pepper any more, if you&#8217;re still there, float what you&#8217;re willing to lose based on your risk tolerance<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>No, I haven&#8217;t tried the Campbell&#8217;s ghost pepper soup, but yes, I do have a reader review ready<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>And now, today&#8217;s news:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/churning\/comments\/1j1snnq\/megathread_chase_business_cards_reporting_to\/\">Chase has been accidentally reporting open business credit cards to TransUnion<\/a> for a relatively small set of churners, but seemingly only if cards were opened with a social security number as the primary tax ID (versus an EIN).<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/churning\/comments\/1j1snnq\/comment\/mfnvakl\/?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=web3x&amp;utm_name=web3xcss&amp;utm_term=1&amp;utm_content=share_button\">This seems to be an error on Chase&#8217;s part<\/a>, and they&#8217;re fixing it within 10 business days if you call and ask. In theory . So your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to check your TransUnion credit report and put a ticket in with Chase if necessary.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flyingblue.us\/en\/spend\/flights\/rewards\">FlyingBlue Promo Rewards for March<\/a> have been released for travel booked in march and flown through August 31. The promotional US cities are Detroit, Seattle, Washington DC, Boston, and Austin. <br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chase.com\/personal\/credit-cards\/education\/basics\/how-to-transfer-chase-ultimate-rewards-points\">Chase Ultimate Rewards has a 20% transfer bonus to British Airways Avios<\/a> through the end of March. As usual, this is effectively a transfer bonus to all carriers that use Avios as their currency.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.staples.com\/lp\/weekly-ad\">Staples has fee free $200 Visa gift cards through Saturday<\/a>.<br><br>These are Pathward gift cards.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanillagift.com\">VanillaGift.com has fee free Vanilla Visa gift cards with promo code <em>VGWOMEN<\/em><\/a> through Saturday. Purchase limits for Incomm sites are $10,000 per account per rolling 24 hours.<br><br>These are Incomm gift cards. Incomm sites won&#8217;t earn points or count toward a sign-up bonus on American Express first party cards.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.doctorofcredit.com\/chase-freedom-5x-surprise-category-for-march-2025-insurance-tax-prep\/\">Chase Freedom and Freedom Flex cards have two bonus 5x categories in March<\/a>: Insurance and tax preparation services, no registration necessary.<br><br>The original $1,500 spend across all 5x categories for the quarter remains.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Happy Tuesday!<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"944\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-1-944x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11404\" style=\"width:420px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-1-944x1024.png 944w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-1-277x300.png 277w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-1-768x833.png 768w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-1.png 1208w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 944px) 100vw, 944px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\">Your next mission: Fly for 12 hours in this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before we dive in, let me answer a few frequently asked questions about yesterday&#8217;s post: And now, today&#8217;s news: Happy Tuesday! Your next mission: Fly<\/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":[60,54,53,64,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airlines","category-credit-cards","category-gift-cards","category-points","category-quick-hits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11397","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=11397"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11405,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11397\/revisions\/11405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}