{"id":274,"date":"2020-12-01T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=274"},"modified":"2023-04-18T14:55:18","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T20:55:18","slug":"unsung-heroes-rakuten-visa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2020\/12\/01\/unsung-heroes-rakuten-visa\/","title":{"rendered":"Unsung Heroes: Rakuten Visa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s rare to see anyone talk about <a class=\"ek-link ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rakuten.com\/credit-card.htm\">the Rakuten Visa<\/a>, likely because it doesn\u2019t pay bloggers a commission for pushing it on you. If you don\u2019t have this card though, seriously consider getting it. Here\u2019s why:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It earns Membership Rewards <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rakuten.com\/help\/article\/earning-american-express-membership-rewards-points-on-rakuten-360017609253\">(if you do it right when<\/a> <a class=\"ek-link ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rakuten.com\/help\/article\/earning-american-express-membership-rewards-points-on-rakuten-360017609253\">you create your account)<\/a><\/li>\n<li>It has no annual fee<\/li>\n<li>It pays +3x for purchases when you start at the Rakuten shopping portal, above whatever the portal is paying<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s from Synchrony bank, so it\u2019s not taking up a Chase, AmEx, or Citi card slot<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There is an asterisk or two to consider (giftcardmall.com and giftcards.com are excluded from the bonus 3x), but in general this card is a powerhouse for online spend. For example, yesterday the Rakuten portal was paying 10x for purchases at Sam\u2019s Club. With the Rakuten card awarding an additional 3x by clicking through the portal, you were earning 13x for Sams. (And there were plenty of gift card deals at Sams that could be resold at or above cost, not including the insane MR earnings.)<\/p>\n<p>If you don\u2019t have a Rakuten account, get a referral from a friend. If you don\u2019t have a friend with a Rakuten account, <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ebates.com\/rf.do?referrerid=xLk5wN2srUUGnxPUmmZ6Xg%3D%3D\">maybe use George\u2019s at TravelBloggerBuzz.<\/a> (He\u2019s someone I respect and he won\u2019t lead you astray.)<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Buy.com logo\" class=\"wp-image-275\" height=\"175\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/buy.com_.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/buy.com_.png 175w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/buy.com_-150x150.png 150w\" width=\"175\"\/><figcaption>Buy.com was easy to pronounce and to remember, then Rakuten bought them and changed the name. Why? Really, why?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s rare to see anyone talk about the Rakuten Visa, likely because it doesn\u2019t pay bloggers a commission for pushing it on you. If you<\/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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unsung-heroes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","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=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7410,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions\/7410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}