{"id":6429,"date":"2023-02-09T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=6429"},"modified":"2023-04-18T15:39:36","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T21:39:36","slug":"when-big-deals-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/09\/when-big-deals-die\/","title":{"rendered":"When Big Deals Die"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been an open secret that certain types of debit cards give cash back, and a slightly less open secret that some cash-back debit cards are friendly to manufactured spenders by design. Yesterday, one of the recent favorites was nerfed for nearly all useful plays and now small spenders and heavy hitters are wandering through the <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washington.edu\/counseling\/2020\/06\/08\/the-stages-of-grief-accepting-the-unacceptable\/#:~:text=Persistent%2C%20traumatic%20grief%20can%20cause,adapt%20to%20a%20new%20reality.\">stages of grief<\/a> from a lost revenue source. Once you\u2019ve moved through the stages, take stock and do the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Realize that the same plays work with other similar products<\/li>\n<li>Remember what worked here for future probing<\/li>\n<li>Look for alternative plays that work with the nerfed product under its new constraints<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I\u2019m sure there are still opportunities with the nerfed debit card, and I\u2019m sure that other debit cards will step up and take its place. Keep looking, and have a nice Thursday!<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-editorskit-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6430\" decoding=\"async\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/telegram-cloud-photo-size-1-5125325736247405698-y-1024x576.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/telegram-cloud-photo-size-1-5125325736247405698-y-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/telegram-cloud-photo-size-1-5125325736247405698-y-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/telegram-cloud-photo-size-1-5125325736247405698-y-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/telegram-cloud-photo-size-1-5125325736247405698-y.jpg 1280w\" width=\"420\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\">Remember that even the lessons of being Bonvoyed can lead to new opportunities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been an open secret that certain types of debit cards give cash back, and a slightly less open secret that some cash-back debit cards<\/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":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,10,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shenanigans","category-whomp-whomp","category-wisdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6429","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=6429"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7431,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6429\/revisions\/7431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}