{"id":11641,"date":"2025-04-10T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=11641"},"modified":"2025-04-09T18:14:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T00:14:19","slug":"thursday-triple-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/10\/thursday-triple-38\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Quad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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  1. A few quick Pepper<\/a> updates:

    – Pepper has two processing backends, PayArc and Stripe
    – AmEx cards work if you have Pepper on PayArc, but not on Stripe
    – Merchant coding has changed from software to advertising on PayArc
    – Exceeding purchase limits is no longer obvious, and your account gets locked if you do
    – This isn’t new, but as a reminder, new Pepper accounts don’t see increased payout rates until (1) Pepper decides they should, or (2) they spend a lot of money in a short amount of time
    – Pervasive errors generating gift cards continue to be pervasive

    The company’s plan to drop bonus payout rates “toward sustainability” happened last week, but this week’s publicized step-down hasn’t occurred as of this writing.
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  2. The Capital One Venture card has increased its bonus to 100,000 bonus miles after $5,000 spend in three months via referrals<\/a> because it was jealous that Chase got six articles in 12 h at a prominent travel blog <\/a> for its 100,000 point bonus<\/s>. This referral offer was around in February too, but more are now targeted.

    The non-referral public offer is still 75,000 miles so ask around before applying. (Thanks to David)
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  3. Alaska MileagePlan Shopping has a bonus of 500 miles after $100+ spent<\/a> through the portal by April 18.

    Perhaps pair with this week’s rage, a Tory Burch American Express $50 off of $250 or $100 off of $500 offer?
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  4. Apparently the RebatesMe has a $45 referral bonus after the referred spends $10<\/a>, though I couldn’t find it on my accounts, possibly because I use them? (Thanks to MtM)
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    Happy Thursday!<\/p>\n\n\n

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    In other news, water continues to be wet and the mountain on your water bottle is only for illustration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Happy Thursday! In other news, water continues to be wet and the mountain on your water bottle is only for illustration.<\/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":[54,53,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-credit-cards","category-gift-cards","category-portals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11641","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=11641"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11647,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11641\/revisions\/11647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}