{"id":8637,"date":"2023-11-27T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=8637"},"modified":"2023-11-26T23:28:49","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T06:28:49","slug":"monday-signal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/27\/monday-signal\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding Monday’s Signal in the Noise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There’s a lot going on today, remember to focus on the bigger stuff and ignore the smaller stuff:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. H-E-B grocery stores have a $20 H-E-B gift card<\/a> with the purchase of a $100 gift card in several travel related and bulk resale brands through tomorrow night, limit one per account. Your best options for resale is Home Depot<\/a>, and Airbnb<\/a> for travel.

    It may be worth a quick trip if you’re not already in H-E-B land if you’re confident in your ability to scale. It is possible to mint thousands of dollars quickly. (Thanks to     GCG<\/a>)
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  2. Alaska has a paid and award ticket sale through Wednesday night<\/a>. I’m seeing transcontinental flights, Hawaiian flights, and some international flights pricing at 7,500 miles each way in economy, short haul flights are showing at 4,000 miles each way in economy.

    The sale is for travel booked 21 days in advance for travel through March 9, and there are a few blackout dates in late February.
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  3. The IHG mobile app has 20% off of paid hotel stays<\/a> booked by tomorrow night for nights through April 30, 2024, and 15% off of points and cash stays for nights in January and February 2024.
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  4. Amazon has holiday weekend shopping promotions for using a single bank point:

    –     American Express 40% or 50% off<\/a>
    –     Chase Ultimate Reward 50% off<\/a>
    –     Discover 50% off<\/a>
    –     US Bank 50% off<\/a>

    Of course you should combine these with buyers groups or gift card reselling activity when possible. If you’re not targeted for one of them, remove those cards from your profile, add them back, then wait a day and check again.
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  5. Citi ThankYou Points are redeemable toward Apple e-gift cards today only<\/a> with a 25% bonus (or 20% discount per Citi because they’re bad at marketing). The resale rate for Apple gift cards is well above a 20% discount making this a nice way to cash out ThankYou Points at above regular rates.
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  6. Giftcards.com has 6% off of $100 Visa e-gift cards through tomorrow night<\/a> with promo codes CYBER6<\/em>, CYBERVISA<\/em>, or VISACYBER<\/em>, limit three per purchase. The limit makes it hard to get to $2,000 per rolling 48 hours but if you’re looking for cancels this is a low cost way to get there.

    These may be worth your time for American Express cards in particular, but only if you have a low cost liquidation channel, since portals are no longer tracking when a promo code is used. (Thanks to TeddyH)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n
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    The internet standard measurement of a banana for scale<\/a> really isn’t big enough on cyber Monday. Instead, use comically oversized carrot for scale to filter through the madness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    There’s a lot going on today, remember to focus on the bigger stuff and ignore the smaller stuff: The internet standard measurement of a banana<\/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":[60,53,64,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airlines","category-gift-cards","category-points","category-shenanigans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8637","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=8637"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8646,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8637\/revisions\/8646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}