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Cyber Monday fared better than Black Friday for MS opportunities, and it looks like it\u2019s going to continue into today and possibly tomorrow. Stay on top of reselling group messages! <\/p>\n

In the mean time:<\/p>\n

1.<\/strong> There\u2019s a new PayPal offer for $50 back on $250 in spend at BestBuy<\/a> when you check-out with PayPal. As usual, I\u2019d recommend buying a BestBuy gift card for liquidation but with a special caveat: BestBuy will ban rewards accounts when a gift card purchased under that account is later used for a purchase flagged as a reseller. To protect yourself, don\u2019t login to your BestBuy account and checkout as a guest if you\u2019re going to buy a gift card for resale. UPDATE: The deal is now $25 back, not $50. Thanks to @BlueCat<\/em><\/p>\n

2.<\/strong> Alaska Airlines has a good Cyber Monday sale for Tuesday<\/a> and Delta does too.<\/a> JetBlue has their own version, and they\u2019re offering $50 off of one-way<\/a> trips so you may want to replace existing round-trip bookings with two one-ways. Southwest didn\u2019t want to be left out so they\u2019ve got one too<\/a>, but theirs runs through Thursday. (I don\u2019t think the \u201cMonday\u201d in Cyber Monday means what the airlines think it means.)<\/p>\n

With Southwest in particular, it\u2019s a good time to book your Spring Break travel because they\u2019ll likely change the schedule anyway and let you switch to any other flight \u00b1 2 weeks from the original booking when that happens.<\/p>\n

3.<\/strong> Office Depot\/OfficeMax has $15 off of $300 or more in Mastercard gift card purchases<\/a> between now and Saturday. Don\u2019t forget to link your cards to Dosh for an extra $10 cash-back.<\/p>\n

4.<\/strong> The web framework behind my favorite travel tool<\/a>, ITA Matrix, is deprecated and going to have to be yanked by Google one day soon. Fortunately for all of us, a dedicated team of Google travel hackers are building a replacement with a modern web framework<\/a> and they\u2019re making good progress. You can find it here:<\/p>\n

ITA Matrix Beta<\/a><\/p>\n

At this point it\u2019s less buggy than the primary interface for some of my searches, though others just spin. I\u2019d consider it a rapidly improving work in progress. Now we just need book with matrix<\/a> to be updated too.<\/p>\n

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The calendar used by airlines for Cyber Monday.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cyber Monday fared better than Black Friday for MS opportunities, and it looks like it\u2019s going to continue into today and possibly tomorrow. Stay on<\/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":[53,63,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gift-cards","category-ita-matrix","category-travel-hacking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3191","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=3191"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7152,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3191\/revisions\/7152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}