{"id":12245,"date":"2025-07-31T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=12245"},"modified":"2025-07-31T08:44:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T14:44:53","slug":"thursday-sofi-action-item-kroger-4x-delta-quietly-snipes-alaska-and-another-free-cardpointers-alternative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/31\/thursday-sofi-action-item-kroger-4x-delta-quietly-snipes-alaska-and-another-free-cardpointers-alternative\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday: SoFi Action Item, Kroger 4x, Delta Quietly Snipes Alaska, and Another Free CardPointers Alternative"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rakuten.com\/shop\/sofibanking\">Yesterday (and if you&#8217;re lucky still now), SoFi Banking had a bonus of $400 or 40,000 Membership Rewards on Rakuten<\/a>, in addition to a $325 sign-up bonus from SoFi with $5,000 in direct deposits. <br><br>If you already have a SoFi account, maybe this is a good indication that it&#8217;s time to close it to set yourself up for the future.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kroger.com\/savings\/c\/800000138286\">Kroger has a 4x fuel points promotion on third party gift cards<\/a> excluding Amazon and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kroger.com\/savings\/c\/800000138299\">fixed value Visa and Mastercards<\/a> gift cards running through Tuesday, August 12. The big brain play here is gift card reselling, but there&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/UnethicalLifeProTips\/comments\/1mc1l36\/ulpt_easy_way_to_save_100_off_per_gallon_of_gas\/\">a slightly less big brain play<\/a> made popular on reddit a few days ago too.<br \/><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alaskaair.com\/content\/deals\/flights\/sale\">Alaska is running an award sale for fares booked tonight and flown between August 19 and December 17<\/a>. This one has:<br \/><br \/>&#8211; Transcons from 7,500 miles<br \/>&#8211; Mexico from 7,500 miles<br \/>&#8211; Alaska from 17,500 miles<br \/>&#8211; Hawaii from 7,500 miles<br \/><br \/>Based on my searches, Delta is quietly matching this fare sale to and from Delta hubs.<br \/><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You&#8217;ve now got another Card Pointers free alternative in addition to &nbsp;<s>faux-cardpointers<\/s>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/gist.github.com\/dapper-gh\/0ded3a425b08b2a126a2bf85d1df595a\">amex-load-offer.js<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/chromewebstore.google.com\/detail\/us-credit-cards-101\/lbcgkmcepniodnjjgapeaopfapiojlhc\">The US Credit Cards 101 Chrome plugin<\/a> adds a button to the American Express offers dashboard to add an offer to all cards on the same login simultaneously, rather than just to a single card.<br \/><br \/>One day, credit card issuers will learn about <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Atomicity_(database_systems)\">database atomicity<\/a>, but we&#8217;re not there yet.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Happy Thursday!<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"518\" height=\"321\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/sql-dad.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12248\" style=\"width:420px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/sql-dad.png 518w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/sql-dad-300x186.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 518px) 100vw, 518px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\">The American Express technology team&#8217;s unofficial poster.<br \/>(Sorry, sometimes database humor can&#8217;t be helped)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Thursday! 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