{"id":7635,"date":"2023-05-19T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=7635"},"modified":"2023-05-18T18:50:55","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T00:50:55","slug":"friday-quadd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/19\/friday-quadd\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Quad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kroger.com\/savings\/c\/800000010113\" class=\"ek-link\">Kroger has an in-store 4x fuel points promotion on third party gift cards<\/a> and fixed value Visa and Mastercard gift cards running today only. There are scalable plays in these sales, and sometimes happy accidents too. Always be probing.<br><br>Kroger used to sell US Bank gift cards, then <a href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/27\/tuesday-triple-24\/\" class=\"ek-link\">switched to Pathward<\/a>, and now seems to be switching back to US Bank, double check what you&#8217;re getting when you buy.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/giftcards.kroger.com\/exclusive-offers\" class=\"ek-link\">Kroger online has 5% off of Visa and Mastercard fixed value gift cards through Tuesday<\/a> with promo code <em>FIVE2023<\/em>. The real win here is that these purchases earn fuel points, if you&#8217;re not going to use those in some way this isn&#8217;t a deal because you&#8217;re not getting special coding.<br><br>These are US Bank gift cards.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanexpress.com\/us\/credit-cards\/card\/green\/\" class=\"ek-link\">American Express personal Green card has a historically high sign-up bonus available directly<\/a> and through referral link for 60,000 Membership Rewards after $3,000 in spend in six months, but you&#8217;ll also get 20% back on travel and transit purchases for the same time period with a maximum statement credit of $200.<br><br>Pre Dodd-Frank this was a great card to sign-up for, get the sign-up bonus, and then upgrade to a Gold or a Platinum immediately thereafter for another bonus. Now though, consumer cards can&#8217;t have an increased annual fee in the first year, so no upgrade is available until year two. It remains a way to slowly build a stable of Gold cards though after the first year. (Thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.doctorofcredit.com\/american-express-green-card-60000-200-signup-bonus-best-ever-available-via-referral\/\" class=\"ek-link\">DoC<\/a>)<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.staples.com\/lp\/weekly-ad#!\/\" class=\"ek-link\">Staples has fee free $200 Mastercard gift cards starting Sunday<\/a> and running through the following Saturday, limit eight per transaction. As always, try and run multiple transactions back to back to minimize your time at Staples stores.<br><br>These are Pathward gift cards so have a liquidation plan in place.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-editorskit-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/stable.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7639\" width=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/stable.png 765w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/stable-300x219.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 765px) 100vw, 765px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\">A stable of American Express Gold cards located somewhere in a Kroger parking lot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A stable of American Express Gold cards located somewhere in a Kroger parking lot.<\/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":[54,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7635","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\/7635","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=7635"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7641,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7635\/revisions\/7641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}