{"id":2971,"date":"2021-11-05T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=2971"},"modified":"2023-04-18T12:10:19","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T18:10:19","slug":"weekend-manufactured-spend-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/05\/weekend-manufactured-spend-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Manufactured Spend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a \u201cWeekend Wisdom\u201d post scheduled for today, but late breaking news preempted it. I\u2019ll let you guess which item caused the shake-up:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1.<\/strong> <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.meijer.com\/mperks\/coupons.html\">Meijer MPerks has 10% off on gift card purchases<\/a> running today and tomorrow with a maximum of $50 back on a $500 purchase per account. Don\u2019t sleep on this one, it isn\u2019t the snooze fest you might think it is. I know of people that literally fly to Meijer territory from other parts of the country and hang out in stores, buying two $500 cards every 10 minutes for an entire day; then they wake up and do it again the next day. <\/p>\n<p>Some gift cards are excluded, but BestBuy isn\u2019t one of them (resale rates are currently in the 96-98% range, which makes this a 6-8% money maker even before your credit card spend).<\/p>\n<p><strong>2.<\/strong> Kroger has been running a 4x fuel point event for online gift card purchases since Monday. I haven\u2019t written about it until this point because it\u2019s been spotty and finicky with cancelled orders all over the place, but that seems to be mostly fixed. With fuel points selling at all-time highs you can come out ahead and never leave home. Your best options:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Apple gift cards: Resale rate of 94.5%+<\/li>\n<li>Cheers-to-you Happy cards (swap to Home Depot): Resale rate of 94.5%+<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The limits are $1,002 per transaction, and $1,002 per rolling 24-30 hour period. Buy the $500 cards for the best bang for your buck, and seasoned accounts work better. Don\u2019t have any seasoned accounts? No time like the present to get ready for the next round, buddy!<\/p>\n<p><strong>3.<\/strong> The <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/01\/manufactured-spend-monday-2\/\">Staples fee-free $200 Visa gift card purchase promotion<\/a> has been extended for another week, running through Saturday, November 13. As before, it\u2019s still limit 5 per transaction. If you do this one, have a good liquidation channel and use a card that bonuses at office supply stores. (Thanks to <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/gcgalore.com\/staples-buy-200-visa-gift-cards-with-no-purchase-fee\/\">GC Galore<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Did you guess which item messed things up? Hint, it wasn\u2019t Staples.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-editorskit-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2972\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/meijer-sleep.jpeg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/meijer-sleep.jpeg 550w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/meijer-sleep-300x188.jpeg 300w\" width=\"420\"\/><figcaption>Waiting for 10 minutes to pass at a Meijer grocery store.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a \u201cWeekend Wisdom\u201d post scheduled for today, but late breaking news preempted it. I\u2019ll let you guess which item caused the shake-up: 1.<\/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-2971","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\/2971","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=2971"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7169,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2971\/revisions\/7169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}