{"id":13417,"date":"2026-03-18T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=13417"},"modified":"2026-03-17T21:16:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T03:16:22","slug":"wednesday-one-portal-devalues-while-another-enhances-virgin-red-bonus-with-statement-credit-mperks-visas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/18\/wednesday-one-portal-devalues-while-another-enhances-virgin-red-bonus-with-statement-credit-mperks-visas\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday: One Portal Devalues while another Enhances, Virgin Red Bonus with Statement Credit, mPerks Visas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.virginatlantic.com\/en-US\">The Synchrony Virgin Red Mastercard has an offer for an increased sign-up bonus of 75,000 Virgin points and a $100 statement credit<\/a> during a ticket booking flow. You don&#8217;t have to checkout to see the offer.<br><br>Virgin Red points are ok, but the Synchrony card is more than just Virgin Red points. (Thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/dannydealguru.com\/virgin-red-rewards-mastercard-bonus\/\">DDG<\/a>)<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.meijer.com\/shopping\/mPerks.html?icid=mPerks:Breadcrumbs:Coupons:mPerksHome\">Meijer stores have 7,500 mPerks points with the purchase of $100+ in Visa gift cards<\/a> through Tuesday, limit one per account. Obviously scale with multiple accounts.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fchase-travel-portal-now-offering-price-match-guarantee-v0-zmcfoitnknpg1.png%3Fwidth%3D867%26format%3Dpng%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3D0c8baae5ea45dede10cfb1008295b3828a5e2c7f\">The Chase Sapphire Reserve Business&#8217;s travel portal has implemented price matching for hotel rooms<\/a> including Edit properties. The terms require that you submit a claim within 24 hours of booking and the stay must be more than a day away, oh and that the price difference has to be at least $5.<br><br>Chase Points Boost is a mixed bag at best, but the mix just got better. On the other hand, Edit hotels haven&#8217;t been so fortunate.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joinkudos.com\/blog\/turn-your-kudos-boost-into-paypal-cash-in-60-seconds\">The Kudos Shopping Portal quietly added a $2.99 fee to cash out your rewards via PayPal<\/a>. Don&#8217;t worry, they&#8217;ll waive the fee if you pay them $12 per month though \ud83d\ude44.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/offers\/\">PayPal Offers has 1% back at Giftcards.com on up to $2,000 spend<\/a> when paying with PayPal through March 31. This stacks with other portal bonuses, however science has yet to discover exactly what Giftcards.com sells.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>I guess it&#8217;s time for us to go do Wednesday now.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/this-saleat-a-grocery-store-v0-ix2ytxlgr5dg1.jpeg-768x1024.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13418\" style=\"width:420px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/this-saleat-a-grocery-store-v0-ix2ytxlgr5dg1.jpeg-768x1024.webp 768w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/this-saleat-a-grocery-store-v0-ix2ytxlgr5dg1.jpeg-225x300.webp 225w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/this-saleat-a-grocery-store-v0-ix2ytxlgr5dg1.jpeg.webp 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\">Next up: Learn how to price match garlic bread for savings of $0.01, and that&#8217;s <em>per loaf<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess it&#8217;s time for us to go do Wednesday now. Next up: Learn how to price match garlic bread for savings of $0.01, and<\/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-13417","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\/13417","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=13417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13419,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13417\/revisions\/13419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}