Sometimes, I just don’t understand.
- You can move all your spending to credit cards.
- You can send $1,000 to a friend every month with Amazon Payments.
- For no fee, you can order $2,600 in gift cards with Chase credit every 30 days.
- You can buy up to $5,000 in Vanilla Reload and prepaid cards from CVS every single day.
- You can unload Vanilla and gift cards using Bluebird.
- Ever since all Visa/Mastercard gift cards got pin numbers, they can be unloaded for just 70 cents per $1,000 money order purchased at Walmart.
- And on and on.
This has all been talked about. But I get an email every week from someone wondering how they can possibly meet a minimum spend. Wanting to know how much they should spend. And here’s the thing…
Even with Flyertalk and a million blogs, sometimes you have to find your own way. Sometimes you can do your own research and find the local shop in your area coded as an office store. And, yes, you alone have to figure out how hard to hit those gift cards at your local office store with your shiny Chase Ink. Because, I promise you, the people I know with the most miles…the ones whose AwardWallet balances make mine look tiny…they don’t wait to follow the crowd. They don’t always need to be spoon fed. And they definitely aren’t the type of people who dip their feet gently into deals, promos, and loopholes. They attack. They hit credit cards and gift cards and everything else hard. And they reap the rewards.
