{"id":1611,"date":"2021-05-20T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=1611"},"modified":"2023-04-18T14:31:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T20:31:00","slug":"another-saks-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/20\/another-saks-hack\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Saks Hack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve got an American Express Personal Platinum (or literally five of them like me), then you\u2019re probably repeatedly annoyed at the twice a year $50 Saks credit. The best option to liquidate these is to take your stack of Platinums to a physical Saks and buy a $50 gift card with each, which isn\u2019t supposed to reimburse but always does. That\u2019s all fine and dandy, but the closest Saks to me is literally 698 miles by car which leaves me either <em>1)<\/em> schlepping a bunch of Platinums around to a store I wouldn\u2019t normally go to while I\u2019m out of town, or <em>2)<\/em> buying some overpriced stuff on Saks.com. <\/p>\n<p>Reader Ryan let me know about another way that has more modestly priced <s>receptacles<\/s> choices:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cashbackmonitor.com\/cashback-store\/saks-off-5th\/\">Check out at Saks Off 5th<\/a> with PayPal rather than using the Saks checkout and the $50 American Express credit will still post, even though it\u2019s not supposed to<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Don\u2019t forget to <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cashbackmonitor.com\/cashback-store\/saks-off-5th\/\">go through a portal<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-editorskit-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1612\" height=\"420\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/folgers.jpeg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/folgers.jpeg 700w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/folgers-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/folgers-150x150.jpeg 150w\" width=\"420\"\/><figcaption>A modestly priced receptacle.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve got an American Express Personal Platinum (or literally five of them like me), then you\u2019re probably repeatedly annoyed at the twice a year<\/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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quick-hits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611","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=1611"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7289,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611\/revisions\/7289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}