{"id":3166,"date":"2021-11-29T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=3166"},"modified":"2023-04-18T12:07:02","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T18:07:02","slug":"monday-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/29\/monday-roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a strange Black Friday weekend in 2021\u2013 we saw shakeups in the BestBuy resale market, Kroger shopping rewards market, and a lack of major deals from big-box retailers; hopefully everything clears up for Cyber Monday, but I\u2019m not holding my breath. I\u2019ll recap everything in a day or two after all the dust settles, but in the mean time here are a few things to look at:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1.<\/strong> If you have an American Express Hilton card, <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/global.americanexpress.com\/enrollments\/oletenroll?campaignId=ggll1121&amp;offerType=ggll01&amp;locale=en-US\">check here for a targeted free night certificate after $8,000<\/a> in spend by February 28, 2022. I even got this offer on my fee-free Hilton card. <\/p>\n<p><strong>2.<\/strong> There\u2019s a new <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/americanexpress.com\/businessgold90k\">no-lifetime language (NLL) offer for the American Business Express Gold<\/a> card. The sign-up bonus is 90,000 points after spending $10,000 in three months. Unfortunately the offer isn\u2019t available for me, but that\u2019s unsurprising since I currently have eleven American Express charge cards and the limit is typically ten. I also have five American Express credit cards and haven\u2019t been able to bust through that limit. (Thanks to <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/churning\/comments\/r3ah1j\/daily_discussion_thread_november_27_2021\/hmc8qj5\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">tehflip449<\/span><\/a>, and thanks to BlueCat for pointing out that this one is a Business Gold card)<\/p>\n<p>Side note: I\u2019ve been debating internally about whether the Personal Gold is another candidate for an <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/category\/unsung-heroes\/\">Unsung Hero<\/a> card. It\u2019s certainly my favorite American Express charge card and I\u2019d keep 15 of them if I could, but isn\u2019t exactly unsung. <em>Story developing<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>3.<\/strong>The <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/point.app\/\">Point debit card<\/a> has a new variation on its Streak offers, and it\u2019s even more annoying than it\u2019s been in the past. This one requires $200 in total spend and that you use the card at least once a day for seven days before December 24, after which you\u2019ll get $30 back. Still worth it? Yes, provided that <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2020\/12\/03\/automating-spend\/\">you\u2019ve got automation<\/a>. I bought a $200 gift card for resale at Whole Foods to take advantage of the 10x bonus and then I set up debbit to make a $1.xx charge at Amazon for the next six days. There\u2019s a debbit <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/11\/wednesday-triple-2\/\">sample configuration for another Point Streak deal here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>As usual, make sure you use a referral if you sign up for Point because the referral bonus of $100 is better than the publicly available offer. Reader Mark was the first to let me know that the referrer\u2019s bonus is now also $100 and no longer <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/16\/tuesday-quick-hits\/\">one fifth of a crappy suitcase<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4.<\/strong> <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/b\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?node=20906611011\">Check this link for 30% back on up to $50<\/a> at Amazon for using at least one Membership Rewards point during checkout. Thanks to reader Dean for the link.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5.<\/strong> Meijer has $10 off in $150 or more of Mastercard gift cards with a limit of one per MPerks account. This is a decent deal if you\u2019re already near a Meijer, but I wouldn\u2019t go out of my way for this (unlike <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/14\/meijer-homerun\/\">their Homerun deal<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><strong>6.<\/strong> You can cash out your Citi ThankYou Points at 1.125 cents per point today only by buying Apple gift cards at a <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thankyou.com\/cms\/thankyou\/\">20% discount with ThankYou points<\/a> and selling at 90% (or more) of face value. (Thanks to nutella)<\/p>\n<p>Happy Monday!<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-editorskit-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3170\" height=\"261\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_1192-1.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_1192-1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_1192-1-300x196.jpg 300w\" width=\"400\"\/><figcaption>Everything on sale for Black Friday at BestBuy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a strange Black Friday weekend in 2021\u2013 we saw shakeups in the BestBuy resale market, Kroger shopping rewards market, and a lack of<\/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":2,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[54,64,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-credit-cards","category-points","category-quick-hits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3166","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=3166"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7153,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3166\/revisions\/7153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}