{"id":11993,"date":"2025-06-16T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=11993"},"modified":"2025-06-15T23:40:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T05:40:16","slug":"weekstart-wisdom-have-a-liquidation-channel-of-last-resort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/16\/weekstart-wisdom-have-a-liquidation-channel-of-last-resort\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekstart Wisdom: Have a Liquidation Channel of Last Resort"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of my 17 favorite slogans is &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/alec-abc.png\">always be probing<\/a>.&#8221; Sometimes, that probing involves throwing every gift card type you can think of at a FinTech to see what sticks. But, it&#8217;s also easy to get stuck in a rut because you don&#8217;t want to buy another American Express gift card as a test since they\u2019re hard to liquidate. So you end up never buying one nor testing it, and then you potentially miss out on a goldmine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To counter this effect, I&#8217;d suggest that you find a way to liquidate every type of gift card out there even if it comes at a relatively high cost, because obscure gift cards might be integral to your next six figure play but you have to buy one to test first. A few ideas for last resort:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Prepay your cell phone bill<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Prepay your electric bill<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kiva.org\">Kiva<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Find a mid-sized local grocer that sells money orders<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Load your Amazon balance<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Buy a Walmart gift card<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, don\u2019t forget that you don\u2019t need to buy a $1,000 gift card when you\u2019re testing, $10 will probably work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Happy probing!<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"701\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-9-1024x701.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11995\" style=\"width:420px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-9-1024x701.png 1024w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-9-300x205.png 300w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-9-768x526.png 768w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-9-1536x1051.png 1536w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-9-1320x904.png 1320w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-9.png 1604w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\">Always be probing, 1980s style.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my 17 favorite slogans is &#8220;always be probing.&#8221; Sometimes, that probing involves throwing every gift card type you can think of at 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":[53,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gift-cards","category-wisdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11993","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=11993"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11998,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11993\/revisions\/11998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}