{"id":1427,"date":"2021-04-23T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=1427"},"modified":"2023-04-18T14:34:48","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T20:34:48","slug":"weekend-manufactured-spend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/23\/weekend-manufactured-spend\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Manufactured Spend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s time to slide into some easy weekend manufactured spend:<\/p>\n<p><strong><strong>1.<\/strong> <\/strong><a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lowesgiftcardbonus.com\/#\/ppdpromoselect\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lowes is offering a $15 Lowe\u2019s eGift Card free<\/a> with the purchase of a $200 Visa Gift Card in store. Currently, you can sell Lowe\u2019s gift cards instantly at 80%+ of face, so that leaves a net cost of $194.95 after the activation fee. This is a great way to liquidate the <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/15\/q2-registration-and-strategy\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Q2 Chase Freedom<\/a> 5x earning at Home Improvement stores, which will net you, per card:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A $200 Visa Gift Card<\/li>\n<li>A $15 Lowes eGift Card<\/li>\n<li>1,000 Ultimate Rewards<\/li>\n<li>600 JetBlue TrueBlue Points (don\u2019t forget to <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/trueblueshopping.jetblue.com\/in-store\/lowe-039-s-card-linked\">register your Freedom cards here<\/a> for 3x purchases at Lowes)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The deal runs April 22 through April 28. If you\u2019ve been on the fence with MS or gift card reselling, this is a good one to use to get your feet wet. Note that the promotion terms explicitly state \u201cLimit 2 per email address.\u201d They\u2019re practically asking us to just create more email addresses to scale this one (email is only required upon redemption, not during purchase). <em>Hint:<\/em> Not all Visa Gift Cards are equal.<\/p>\n<p>Dean let me know about an AmEx offer floating around for 10% back at Lowe\u2019s too, so check for that as a backup to your Freedoms. <\/p>\n<p><strong>2. <\/strong><a aria-label=\"Staples is back with $200 fee free Visa gift card (opens in a new tab)\" class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.staplesconnect.com\/weeklyad#!\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Staples is back with $200 fee free Mastercard Gift Cards<\/a>, limit 5 per transaction between Sunday April 25 and Saturday, May 1. Use a Chase Ink Cash, Chase Ink Plus, or American Express Business card with a +4x office supplies offer attached. <em>Update:<\/em> Thanks to reader Nutella for the correction on Mastercard instead of Visa.<\/p>\n<p>Both of these gift card deals are issued by Metabank, so make sure you have a way to liquidate them. There are definitely ways to cash these out in person, just don\u2019t try at a Walmart Money Center. There are ways from home too, especially if your cost is $194.45.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-editorskit-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A man wearing a green shirt, black shorts, a blue bicycle helmet, and black hiking shoes with white ankle high socks sliding down a mostly dirt and weed hill, on his back, seemingly out of control.\" class=\"wp-image-1428\" height=\"379\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/sliding-down-hill.jpeg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/sliding-down-hill.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/sliding-down-hill-300x271.jpeg 300w\" width=\"420\"\/><figcaption>Sliding into the weekend, smooth like butter.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s time to slide into some easy weekend manufactured spend: 1. Lowes is offering a $15 Lowe\u2019s eGift Card free with the purchase of a<\/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":[53,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gift-cards","category-ms-hints"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427","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=1427"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7307,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions\/7307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}