{"id":7660,"date":"2023-05-25T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=7660"},"modified":"2023-05-25T00:27:08","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T06:27:08","slug":"thursday-triple-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/25\/thursday-triple-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Quad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kroger.com\/savings\/c\/800000011008\">Kroger is having a weekend 4x fuel points promotion <\/a>running Friday through Sunday on third party gift cards and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kroger.com\/savings\/c\/800000011029\">fixed value Visa and Mastercard gift cards<\/a>. Resale markets have nearly recovered to rates found before Kroger started banning accounts because, like the documentary Jurassic Park taught us, life will find a way. (Thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/gcgalore.com\/kroger-earn-4x-fuel-points-on-3rd-party-gift-cards-fixed-value-visa-mastercard-gift-cards\/\" class=\"ek-link\">GCG<\/a>)<br \/><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/bankruptcy-law\/payment-company-plastiq-goes-bankrupt-in-wake-of-svbs-collapse\">Plastiq has filed for bankruptcy<\/a> and <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20230524005668\/en\/Priority-Technology-Holdings-Inc.-Has-Entered-Into-Stalking-Horse-Agreement-with-Plastiq-Inc.\">already has a vulture company that&#8217;s agreed to scoop up its assets<\/a>, pending court approval. The payment processor was once a great arrow in the manufactured spender&#8217;s quiver, but the company&#8217;s unstated mission was to <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/30\/plastiq-a-slow-requiem\/\">perfect the art of a slow death spiral<\/a> and they succeeded spectacularly. Their bankruptcy shouldn&#8217;t be surprising ay after they <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/colonnade-acquisition-to-wind-down-won-t-complete-plastiq-deal-6f2ff452\">failed their merger with the Colonnade SPAC<\/a> which <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/news.spacconference.com\/2023\/03\/10\/colonnade-acquisition-ii-terminates-plastiq-deal-will-liquidate-monday\/\">caused the SPAC to die too<\/a>.<br><br>Plastiq wasn&#8217;t without utility even as recently as this week, but maybe that\u2019s changed. Personally I&#8217;m not going to send any further payments through the platform, but you&#8217;re all adults; do what&#8217;s best for you. (Thanks to <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/viewfromthewing.com\/payments-company-plastiq-files-for-bankruptcy\/\">VFTW<\/a>)<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Chase increased the bonuses on its personal Southwest cards through June 26, and each includes a single use promo code for up to eight passengers for 30% off of a paid or award booking.<br \/><br \/>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/creditcards.chase.com\/a1\/southwest\/AEP60kpromoPlus523#\" class=\"ek-link\">Rapid Rewards Plus<\/a>: 60,000 bonus points and 30% off code<br \/>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/creditcards.chase.com\/a1\/southwest\/AEP60kpromoPremier523#\" class=\"ek-link\">Rapid Rewards Premier<\/a>: 60,000 bonus points and a 30% off code<br \/>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/creditcards.chase.com\/a1\/southwest\/AEP60kpromoPriority523#\" class=\"ek-link\">Rapid Rewards Priority<\/a>: 60,000 bonus points and a 30% off code<br \/><br \/>These offers are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chase.com\/referafriend\/swafamily\" class=\"ek-link\">available via referral too<\/a>, so make sure you use a friend&#8217;s referral link and make their day too unless you&#8217;re referring from another player.<br \/><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Do this now<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wyndhamhotels.com\/en-us\/wyndham-rewards\/hotel-deals\/summer-travel-free-nights\" class=\"ek-link\">Register for Wyndham&#8217;s summer promotion<\/a> for 5,000 bonus points on two night stays, 10,000 bonus points on three night stays, or 15,000 bonus points on four night or longer stays through September 5.  If you&#8217;re a Wyndham card holder you&#8217;ll get a one-time additional 5,000 bonus points on your first stay too. Complex much?<br \/><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-editorskit-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/plastiq-768x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7669\" width=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/plastiq-768x1024.png 768w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/plastiq-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/plastiq-1152x1536.png 1152w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/plastiq-1536x2048.png 1536w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/plastiq-1320x1760.png 1320w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/plastiq.png 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\">Plastiq obviously was part of this manufactured spender&#8217;s quiver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plastiq obviously was part of this manufactured spender&#8217;s quiver.<\/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-7660","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\/7660","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=7660"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7672,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7660\/revisions\/7672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}