Almost three months ago, I set out to spend $20,000 within 3 months and flip whatever I bought into as much cash as possible. Personally, I have more experience reselling gift cards than using anything else to manufacture spend, so I decided to do the entire $20k by flipping gift cards and hopefully come away with […]
Category: Gift Card Arbitrage
Getting Creative to Maximize Return on Grocery Spending
Personal finance is one big optimization problem that I’m constantly running through my head in order to think up new tricks that can save or earn me more money. This is what I refer to as the “Money Metagame” which inspired the name of this blog. How much I spend is one of the components I have the […]
United’s Gift Card Exchange – Use It To Buy United Miles For Cheap?
I recently received an email from United advertising their own gift card exchange and decided to check it out. A quick google search shows a version of it existed in 2012, but this is the first I’ve heard of it. From what I’ve gathered, the back end of that old exchange system was Plastic Jungle […]
Beware the Bankruptcy When Reselling Gift Cards
Every so often, large businesses declare bankruptcy and any gift cards issued by that store will probably stop working soon after. As soon as a store officially declares bankruptcy, most gift card exchanges will drop the price a ton to try emptying their inventory as fast as possible. Other exchanges might not be as fast […]
20k Spending Challenge Update 3: Spending Complete and Over $11k Sold
We’re now at the half way point of the 90-day $20,000 Spending Challenge. If you haven’t been following along, myself and several other bloggers decided to try our hand at reselling $20k worth of either gift cards or merchandise. The challenge was inspired by the $20k minimum spend requirement on the Amex Business Platinum card […]
A Couple Profitable Bank Amerideals And A 56% Off Sears Combo
Part of my process for finding gift card deals is semi-frequently checking a few different locations that often have deals. These locations include Amex Offers, Bank Amerideals, ebay, the Safeway App, and the Fred Meyer (Kroger brand) App along with a bunch of blogs that post about deals. My most recent stop in my online […]
A New Gift Card Reselling Tool: SaveYa’s Digital vs. Physical List
If you ever resell gift cards, you’ve probably run into the question: “Will I be able to sell a digital gift card to an exchange?” You may have even thought: “Does SaveYa accept this brand of gift card so I don’t have to mail anything?” As a bulk seller with SaveYa who sells thousands of dollar worth […]
Shipping Gift Cards And Thinking About Getting Insurance? Don’t!
When reselling anything for profit the primary two things on your mind should be profit and risk. For selling gift cards, both of these factors come into play if you find yourself in a situation where you need to ship cards out. The costs of shipping will directly eat into your profits, but you also […]
20k Spending Challenge Update 2: $11k Spent, $5.6k Sold, and 11% Profit So Far
I’m back from my week long vacation and despite a week of no spending at all (towards this challenge at least…), I’m still well on pace to complete the challenge. If you want more details about the $20k spending challenge, check out my original post on the matter and my first update. One of my personal […]
Snippets: New Accounts, Gift Card Deals, and A $20k Challenge Correction
I’ve got a few different things I want to talk about, but each item doesn’t justify it’s own post so I’m cramming them all into one. I’m not sure if I’ll make this a regular thing or not, but welcome to the first edition of Snippets. This post will talk about a new credit that […]