{"id":3957,"date":"2022-03-08T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=3957"},"modified":"2023-04-18T11:52:06","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T17:52:06","slug":"tuesday-catchup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/08\/tuesday-catchup\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Catchup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s <s>ketchup<\/s> catchup on a few deals from the weekend (err, and yesterday):<\/p>\n<p><strong>1.<\/strong> Office Depot\/OfficeMax has $15 back on $300 or more in Visa gift cards until Saturday, which makes your net cost $398.90 for $400 in gift cards or $394.90 for $400 gift cards if you buy the \u201cEverywhere\u201d variety. To maximize:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Link each of your cards to Dosh for an extra $10 back, but watch out for shutdowns for repeated gift card transactions<\/li>\n<li>Try and run multiple transactions back-to-back with the same cashier<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thanks to reader Jim for the tip.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2.<\/strong> <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usbank.com\/splash\/checking\/Q1-2022-all-markets-tiered-checking-offer.html\">US Bank has a $400 sign-up bonus<\/a> for opening a personal checking account and adding $5,000 in \u201cdirect deposits\u201d in the first 60 days through March 28. Taking the bonus could be even more useful because having a checking account with a balance of at least $1,500 is a good way to <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/25\/tuesday-special-4000-olympics-edition\/\">get approved for lots of US Bank credit cards<\/a> at once.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3.<\/strong> Another offer for 20,000 Membership Rewards for adding an authorized user to an American Express Platinum card and spending $2,000 within six months <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/churning\/comments\/t8lwaf\/comment\/hzrdulp\/?utm_source=reddit&amp;utm_medium=web2x&amp;context=3\">has surfaced<\/a>. To see if you\u2019re targeted, login to American Express and then <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.americanexpress.com\/en-us\/apply\/supplementary-card\/platinum-card\/17866-10-0\">check this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4.<\/strong> In addition to the increased Delta American Express card offers last week, another has surfaced for the Gold card and it\u2019s interesting because the sign-up bonus is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A $400 statement credit<\/li>\n<li>50,000 SkyMiles<\/li>\n<li>A waived first-year annual fee<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">To get the offer, you\u2019ll need to make a dummy airfare booking at delta.com and you\u2019ll see it on the checkout page. To make things annoying though, sometimes the offer shows as a $300 statement credit and other times a $400 statement credit, so you may need to try different browsers or routes to find the $400 offer. Also, <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flyertalk.com\/forum\/delta-air-lines-skymiles\/2071077-delta-amex-time-vent.html\">don\u2019t actually buy the ticket<\/a>. As <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/milenomics.com\/author\/milenomics\/\">Sam<\/a> says, \u201cit never pays to play it straight\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Are we <s>kaughtchup<\/s> caught-up now?<\/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-3959\" sizes=\"(max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ketchup.jpeg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ketchup.jpeg 840w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ketchup-300x206.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ketchup-768x528.jpeg 768w\" width=\"420\"\/><figcaption>Crimes against humanity in pasta form.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s ketchup catchup on a few deals from the weekend (err, and yesterday): 1. Office Depot\/OfficeMax has $15 back on $300 or more in Visa<\/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":[54,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-credit-cards","category-gift-cards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3957","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=3957"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7082,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3957\/revisions\/7082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}