Closed my first CD with On Tap today. Was very simple. I sent a one line message and they obliged within a couple hours. My calendar alert notified me it was time
Author: Cashback Cowgirl
Update March 16, 2025. Thanks to TJ in the comments below I now know how to redeem these cards. TJ said:
So the email you got from has a string of number and letters after the word PIN. That’s your activation code. Activate the card at https://www.myprepaidcenter.com. Why SYW doesn’t include these instructions is a mystery to me.
Update March 17, 2025. I got the card with the above process. I found out it only lasts 6 months as well. So in the future I’ll just continue to get the Visa eGift cards since they are easier to acquire. I used up this $200 Mastercard gift card on Pepper buying $200 Sam’s Club gift card at 10x discount.
Originally posted March 13, 2025:
Today I received an email from Citi regarding my Shop Your Way (SYW) card. They announced that SYW points can now be redeemed for a Prepaid Mastercard.
To test this new feature, I redeemed 200,000 SYW points for a $200 Mastercard Gift Card. Unlike the Virtual Gift Card (VGC) eGift cards, which have a six-month expiration date, I noticed no such expiration mentioned during the purchase process, which I found encouraging.
However, the email I received for the card appears to be defective. It lacks both the card number and a redemption link. While the $200 Mastercard Gift Card is visible in my ShopYourWay.com account, clicking on it and then selecting “redeem” redirects me to the gift card purchase page.
Below is my plan for Q2 2025 using my custom cashback strategy as described in my article: Introducing My 5%+ Custom Cashback Strategy.
Rotating Categories for Q2 2025.
Discover It Cashback (DICB) is Grocery Stores & Wholesale Clubs (DoC)
Chase Freedom Flex (CFF) is Amazon & Streaming Services (PC)
I just got the following e-mail from Wise, screenshot below. I haven’t looked into it. Wondering if everyone else got the notice.
From my observation over the past couple months, Citi Shop Your Way offers which reward points seem to post within days of meeting the minimum spend requirement (MSR). Offers where the reward
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau gets shut down — sources below. If you try to click the CFPB link under Favorites page of Cashback Cow, you will be presented with the following 404 message.
Russell Vought, Trump’s director of Office of Management & Budget and now acting director of the CFPB shuts it down. Vought sent an email Saturday night ordering all employees at the consumer watchdog to stop virtually all work, including fighting financial abuse.
I got the following in my email. I’d use my 175k SYW reward points for a $175 Visa Gift Card — remember to use up quickly as they expire in a few months. These offers are stackable with other relevant offers.
I just added a new calculator to the Calculators page. It is tentatively titled the Costco Gold Profit Calculator. I wrote this calculator in with Pure Technologies in my mind but can be used for other resellers.
Update 2025-01-03. This worked again this year. I repeated the same thing again as I did below. Amex just emailed me and let me know I’ll be getting a $50 credit.
Originally posted 2024-12-14:
So yesterday I learned from a Profitable Content article that Amex is now giving Amex Business Platinum (ABP) credit card holders a lovely $50 quarterly statement credit on Hilton purchases. (This now makes the ABP truly a free card to have from a frugal minded non-traveler perspective.)
I immediately wondered if I could somehow buy a gift card with it the $50 credit and asked a friend about it on discord. He said he had already very recently done this, purchasing a $50 Hilton gift card with his ABP just the other day.
I added the Frequent Miler Credit Cards and Credit Card Bonuses articles to the Feeds page. There is a lot of great information in these articles which aren’t necessarily travel related, such as the recent article with a link for checking to see if one has any employee card offers available on ABP or ABG.