{"id":13837,"date":"2026-06-12T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=13837"},"modified":"2026-06-12T06:12:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T12:12:48","slug":"friday-numerology-strikes-back-lots-of-credit-cards-and-exploding-from-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/friday-numerology-strikes-back-lots-of-credit-cards-and-exploding-from-math\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday: Numerology Strikes Back, Lots of Credit Cards, and Exploding from Math"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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  1. Chase increased its sign-up bonuses on several business cards the day after devaluing most of them. The new bonuses:

    – Ink Cash<\/a>: 100,000 Ultimate Rewards after $8,000 spend in 4 months
    –     Ink Unlimited<\/a>: 100,000 Ultimate Rewards after $8,000 spend in 4 months
    –     Sapphire Reserve Business<\/a>: 200,000 Ultimate Rewards after $30,000 spend in 6 months

    Each of these URLs ends in 0626<\/code>, which means … something, surely.
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  2. The Chase Amazon Visa has a sign-up bonus of $200 after *checks notes*<\/em><\/a> $0 spend in 0 months, making this an \u267e\ufe0fx boost on your minimum spend, provided you don’t explode from dividing by zero.

    In all seriousness, the real value of this card is uncapped 5%, not a stupid $200. But if you’re sign-up bonus chasing Amazon cards,     this US Bank Business one has a variable $250-$750 sign-up bonus depending on how the random number generator<\/a> likes your current browser, cookie-set, IP address, etc. Unlike the Chase card, this one has a $150,000 annual bonus spend cap.
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  3. Stop & Shop<\/a>, Giant<\/a>, Giant Food<\/a>, and Martins<\/a> 6x points on third party gift cards through Thursday. Per-account limits are either $500, $2,000, or $500 on Zift and $2,000 on everything else depending on the chain because uniformity is overrated.
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  4. Meijer stores have 50,000 bonus points with $500 in third party gift cards <\/a>other than Amazon through June 23. Scale with multiple loyalty accounts and with miracle doctors I guess.
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  5. United Airlines now allows partner bookings with pooled miles<\/a> on select partners, which in practice seems to be all partners except JSX. According to ToP<\/a>, there are several non-JSX restrictions:

    – Not valid for Hawaiian Airlines flights except for inter-island
    – Not valid for Emirates flights other than JFK-DXB

    No, you’re not the only one that finds three things about those restrictions weird.
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  6. The AA eShopping has shopping portal has 500 bonus miles with $200+ spend<\/a>.

    Giftcards.com remains a great way to do this, or as reader Sean mentions, buy a gift card that you’d use anyway like Safeway or Home Depot at Newegg via Paze to double dip.
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    Have a nice weekend!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    The last guy that divided by zero.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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