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.
Below is my plan for Q1 2025 using my custom cashback strategy as described in my article: Introducing My 5%+ Custom Cashback Strategy. (Some has changed since I wrote the aforementioned article, like I product changed my Citi Custom Cash for Citi Double Cash recently, as I am getting a lot of use out of several 2% cashback cards lately; but the article should still be useful I think especially the phone wallpaper idea.)
The Citi Shop Your Way (SYW) card along with Discover It Miles (DIM) are my top two favorite cards right now — go figure! Which I think is very cool since I am starting to become elderly and remember Sears ever since the late 1970’s. I have the classic Dawn of Discover design on the DIM card so both cards have yellows and reds in them which I think so cool — popular Earthy colors from the 70’s:
As I mentioned the other day, the first card I applied for in my sixteen card App-O-Rama (AOR) was the Citi Shop Your Way (SYW) card. Again, it’s a card I have been wanting a while and figured then was the opportunity to finally get it.
I received this card just two months ago and was expecting at some point I’d eventually get some stacking offers via email. Well I just got my first offer today and it blew my socks off. First off, I wasn’t expecting an offer so soon and not as good as the following:
So a couple months ago I sat at 6/24 Chase Status, having already acquired the four Ink cards I had wanted. I didn’t really need many more Chase cards but did need many 1.5% to 2% cashback cards for various reasons — IYKYK. Rather than wait over a year to start trickling them in, I just decided to go all out and apply for ALL of them in an AOR and revisit Chase cards in two years. Must have them all NOW! 😺
I share in this article which cards I applied for, my reasoning and which cards I actually got along with my future plans.
Screenshot of letter is below.
