{"id":1418,"date":"2021-04-22T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=1418"},"modified":"2023-04-18T14:35:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T20:35:00","slug":"thursday-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/22\/thursday-redux\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember <a aria-label=\"yesterday's Alaska Airlines shopping portal bonus (opens in a new tab)\" class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/21\/promo-wednesday\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">yesterday\u2019s Alaska Airlines shopping portal bonus<\/a> that I thought wasn\u2019t worth doing? Well if you have an American Express Business Platinum card, it\u2019s probably worth it now because Dell has a promo offer for 10% off of Xbox Gift cards with code <em>XBOX10<\/em>. To take advantage of it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ensure you\u2019ve <a aria-label=\"activated your Dell credit with your American Express (opens in a new tab)\" class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/global.americanexpress.com\/card-benefits\/view-all?inav=MYCA_Benefits\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">activated your Dell credit with your American Express<\/a> Business Platinum<\/li>\n<li>Check for any Dell cash back or 2x\/3x spend American Express offers<\/li>\n<li>Start at the Alaska portal for <a aria-label=\"Dell Home (opens in a new tab)\" class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mileageplanshopping.com\/me____.htm?keywords=Dell%20Home&amp;gmid=9\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dell Home<\/a>, and click on <em>SHOP NOW. <\/em>UPDATE<em>: <\/em>RabbMD let me know that Dell Technologies earns 3x instead of 1x.<\/li>\n<li>Add a $100 Xbox Gift Card to your cart<\/li>\n<li>Add a $25 Xbox Gift Card to your cart<\/li>\n<li>Checkout, and enter promo <em>XBOX10<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Pay with your Business Platinum<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The promo will only apply to one card, but it\u2019ll pick the more expensive one. So, you\u2019ll spend $115, but you\u2019ll get:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$100 back from AmEx as a statement credit (or more if you have an offer attached to your card)<\/li>\n<li>615 Alaska miles<\/li>\n<li>$82-85 in resale value for the Xbox cards (thanks to Katie for the correction in rates)<\/li>\n<li>115 Membership Rewards points (or more if you have an offer attached to your card)<\/li>\n<li>Rid of the Dell credit that expires June 30 and can be hard to use<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you have multiple Business Platinums, create new Dell accounts with new email addresses to use the code again, and don\u2019t ever let the Business Platinum cards co-mingle between accounts. UPDATE: The code works on the same account multiple times, thanks to RabbMD for letting me know. <\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-editorskit-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A prepared stir-fry of vegetables in a wok.\" class=\"wp-image-1419\" height=\"486\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/stir-fry.jpeg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/stir-fry.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/stir-fry-259x300.jpeg 259w\" width=\"420\"\/><figcaption>A stir-fry is just co-mingled ingredients.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember yesterday\u2019s Alaska Airlines shopping portal bonus that I thought wasn\u2019t worth doing? Well if you have an American Express Business Platinum card, it\u2019s probably<\/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":1,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[53,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gift-cards","category-quick-hits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418","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=1418"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7308,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions\/7308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}