{"id":14020,"date":"2026-07-20T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=14020"},"modified":"2026-07-20T08:58:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T14:58:38","slug":"monday-gift-cards-and-bank-of-america-human-free-retention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/20\/monday-gift-cards-and-bank-of-america-human-free-retention\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday: Gift cards and Bank of America Human-Free Retention"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.staples.com\/lp\/easyrewardsoverview\">Staples stores have fee-free $200 Mastercard gift cards on sale<\/a> through Saturday, limit nine per transaction.<br><br>These are Pathward \/ BlackHawk Network gift cards.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uscardforum.com\/t\/topic\/519393\">Bank of America cards have retention offers, and they&#8217;re occasionally available in-app via chat with Erica<\/a>, the virtual agent, too. Just open the app and click &#8220;Close&#8221; when you&#8217;re presented with a list of options (the act of clicking Close won&#8217;t actually close your card), and you may see an offer. In bad news for my P2, the app does need to be up-to-date. Current best offers are $175 after $1,500 spend in three months.<br><br>I&#8217;m not saying it&#8217;s a good idea, but closing a Bank of America card a month or two after meeting a retention offer doesn&#8217;t seem to cause any lasting repercussions on your account.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Happy Monday!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"257\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-12-1024x257.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14021\" style=\"width:420px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-12-1024x257.png 1024w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-12-300x75.png 300w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-12-768x193.png 768w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-12.png 1084w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:14px\">I&#8217;m not saying this is a bad idea either, but [<em>&#8230;<\/em>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Monday! I&#8217;m not saying this is a bad idea either, but [&#8230;]<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-credit-cards","category-gift-cards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14020","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=14020"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14023,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14020\/revisions\/14023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}