{"id":4823,"date":"2022-07-06T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=4823"},"modified":"2023-04-18T11:34:43","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T17:34:43","slug":"manufactured-spend-developments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/06\/manufactured-spend-developments\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent Manufactured Spend Developments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There have been a few significant developments in manufactured spend over the last week or so, and I think a quick summary is in order:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Speedway is temporarily awarding <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.speedway.com\/speedy-rewards\/earn\">500 points per card<\/a> on certain Visa gift card purchases, both advertised and <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/churning\/comments\/vpnjfq\/manufactured_spending_weekly_thread_week_of_july\/iewvq97\/?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=ios_app&amp;utm_name=iossmf&amp;context=3\">unadvertised<\/a> brands.<\/li>\n<li>Another Metabank liquidation channel vaporizes: the <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.playplusgo.com\/\">Play+ card<\/a> stopped taking Metabank Mastercard gift cards<a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/churning\/comments\/vpnjfq\/comment\/iez1r0b\/?utm_source=reddit&amp;utm_medium=web2x&amp;context=3\"> last week<\/a>, and Metabank Visa gift cards <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/churning\/comments\/vbz6ha\/daily_question_thread_june_14_2022\/icdbyx3\/?utm_source=reddit&amp;utm_medium=web2x&amp;context=3\">the week before<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>There have been <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flyertalk.com\/forum\/34380260-post1559.html\">sporadic reports<\/a> trickling in for about a week that several US Bank gift cards compatible with paying Citi cards over the phone have stopped, well being compatible with paying Citi cards over the phone. It appears that this issue affects cards with an earlier expiration, so all is not lost.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>There are still plenty of techniques out there, always be probing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-editorskit-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4826\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_5321-1024x1016.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_5321-1024x1016.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_5321-300x298.jpg 300w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_5321-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_5321-768x762.jpg 768w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_5321.jpg 1080w\" width=\"420\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\">Look, I\u2019m not going to say that all probing is good. Props to Henton\u2019s for exploring what meals could be, but I\u2019d chalk this one up as a failure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have been a few significant developments in manufactured spend over the last week or so, and I think a quick summary is in order:<\/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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ms-hints"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4823","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=4823"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6996,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4823\/revisions\/6996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}