Matthew Wood

Biggest MS Developments - July

I'm going to periodically summarize the best of the Slack group discussions as part of your subscriber content, first so we've got a curated historical record for future reference, and second to make sure you didn't miss (some of) the major developments. Since this is an experiment, I'd very much...

An Interesting Credit Card to Debit Card Service

Kasheesh has been brewing in stealth mode since last year, but as of today the cat is out of the bag after Benjy @ Miles To Memories shared some details. Here's what you should know:

- It's a service bu...

A Method for Liquidating Metabanks and Other Tough Gift Cards

The doors have been closing on Metabank gift card liquidation for several years. Since 2019, we've lost liquidation at Walmart Money Centers, Kroger Money Centers, Safeway Money Centers, and most recently Publix Money Centers. But, not all doors are closed by any means and there's a great one tha...

$10,000 per Day in Manufactured Spend from Home

Introduction

Fluz is an application for generating gift cards in real-time and getting cash-back for doing it, with an intended use case for buying during checkout online or at an in-person retailer for a little extr...

Group Chat Update

EDIT: All invites have gone out. If you can't find yours please let me know (it will come directly from Slack and may end up in spam). 

Hey friends,

I had impassioned arguments for just about every platform for a group chat imaginable, and in roughly equal numbers for ea...

United Travel Hacks

Note: This is the promised first newsletter focused on travel hacking topics. These will come periodically just like the manufactured spend posts.

Let's talk about how we can make best use of United awards and TravelBanks. With a bit of legwork, we can make both much more flexibl...

Patreon Updates

Hi Friends,

I'm just getting back from a long, disconnected vacation, but I wanted to give you two quick updates before I dive into the regular routine:

• I've had literally dozens of you ask about a Telegram / WhatsApp / Slack / Discord group for Miles Earn and Burn Patreons, and...
  2022-02-28 22:34:34 +0000 UTC View Post

Another $5,000 MS Opportunity from Home or at Walmart

Venture capitalists are currently overfunded, in that their funds are larger then ever and the number of targets they're chasing is shrinking. That means that they're making big bets on...

$6,200 in (Recurring) Visa/Mastercard Manufactured Spend

There are two opportunities for opening new credit union accounts that offer big spend on Visa and Mastercards without cash advance fees, and they're even better because they illustrate a technique not often discussed in the churning space even though it has relatively wide applicability. The dea...

Taking 4% off of your Credit Card Balances from Home

Right now, there's a nice opportunity for paying bills from home at a 4% discount, and it's less convoluted than many of the games we play. The ELI5:

• The Coinbase debit card gives 4% back in XLM crypto which you can...
  2021-12-02 01:43:42 +0000 UTC View Post

Fee-Free Mastercard Gift Cards from Home

For several years I've been chipping away at a not-well publicized source of Mastercard gift cards that you can buy online. These cards are interesting because they're a rare BIN, so they're less likely to be blocked than most other gift cards. That's interesting in-and-of-itself, but now the com...

Nearly Fee-Free Online Gift Card Liquidation

EDIT: This deal is unfortunately on life-support. Many cards aren't working any more, but a few still are. I think it's unfortunately not long for the world though. Additionally, Stockpile has implemented a $100 card load limit per 24 hours, which makes this a waste of time in my opinion. 2021-10-25 17:52:49 +0000 UTC View Post