{"id":11909,"date":"2025-05-29T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=11909"},"modified":"2025-05-29T09:35:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T15:35:38","slug":"thursday-marriotts-lame-promo-krogers-great-promo-simon-drops-an-axe-and-american-express-hotel-offers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/29\/thursday-marriotts-lame-promo-krogers-great-promo-simon-drops-an-axe-and-american-express-hotel-offers\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday: Marriott’s Lame Promo, Kroger’s Great Promo, Simon Drops an Axe, and American Express Hotel Offers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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  1. Do this now<\/strong>: Register for Marriott’s promotion for double points at Marriott Homes & Villas<\/a> booked by June 5 for stays through September 4.

    Why do this now? Previously unplanned bookings happen all the time, and sometimes promotions apply differently than you’d expect.
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  2. Kroger stores have a promotion for 4x fuel points on third party gift cards<\/a> excluding Amazon running tomorrow only.

    BestBuy is generally the best choice for resale rates for manufactured spenders, but lately there are activation issues with certain BestBuy cards (those with serial numbers starting with FD<\/em> seem fine, those in the 1124<\/em> batch are bad news bears). Other brands may be better choices for rookies.
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  3. Kroger has fee-free variable load $150+ Visa and Mastercard gift cards with coupon<\/a> through Tuesday. Unfortunately, this coupon is single use per Kroger account, but gamers gonna game.

    These are Pathward gift cards, Kroger’s US Bank stock is long gone.
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  4. Simon Mall is shutting down its bulk Visa gift card buying platform<\/a> on July 11. As long as you had a seasoned account, this was a five-figures a day program for more Old School Cool people than you’d probably guess. Let’s call them the Old School Coolers!

    The part that worries me the most about the shutdown is where all the volume is going to go, and what it’ll do to the next thing when it goes. (Thanks to Anthony, Sam, and mpohl)
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  5. American Express Offers has quite a few new hotel<\/a> promotions:

    – $50 back on $250+ at IHG properties in North America through August 26
    – $100 back on $500+ at Opal properties in Florida by September 30
    – $100 back on $500+ at Omni Hotels through September 12
    – $100 back on $500+ at Wyndham properties through October 31

    Don’t forget faux-cardpointers<\/s>     amex-load-offer.js<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n
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    The Old School Coolers’ mascot is now filled only with tears.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The Old School Coolers’ mascot is now filled only with tears.<\/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":[53,61,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gift-cards","category-hotels","category-quick-hits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11909","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=11909"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11918,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11909\/revisions\/11918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}