# Manufactured Spending
Amazon Ends 2% Rewards on Debit Card Gift Card Reloads Effective July 29
We received an email saying that starting July 29, reloading your Amazon gift card balance with a debit card will no longer earn 2% rewards. Honestly, this feature was pretty nice:...
A Big Wave of Money-Saving Offers on the AMEX Platinum Card! Tips Included [2021.6 Update: AMEX Offers End in Late June—Watch the Deadline]
Many AMEX Offers expire on June 30, 2021. If you haven’t used them yet—especially the ones that are basically free money—it’s time to find a way to use them. Feel free to share you...
Get a 7% Bonus When Redeeming TopCashback Rewards for Visa Gift Cards, Then Convert Them to Amazon Gift Cards
TopCashback has launched a new promotion: if you redeem the cashback in your account for a Visa gift card, you can get an extra 7% bonus. Note that the Visa gift card offered here...
Free/TheVeryLow-Cost Finds on The RealReal Resale Marketplace (Get $25 on Sign-Up) + Possible Chase Offer for $25 Back
This article was also published on the author’s personal WeChat public account. Recently there has been a Chase Offer at TheRealReal: spend $25, get $25 back. Originally, I was onl...
Hyatt | Make 50 card purchases (at least $1 each) to get 5,000 points (plus some ways to do it) “2021.2 update: It’s almost over, hurry!”
The offer is ending at the end of February—don't forget the free Hyatt 5,000 points (enough for a night). If that doesn't work, you can just reload your Amazon balance; it's best t...
Fluz Gift Card Cashback App Introduction (Deal-Hunting Tool) [2021.2 Update: Buy Gift Cards with a Bank Account or Debit Card for Extra Cashback]
Fluz has added a new cashback method: making purchases with a bank account or debit card can earn extra cashback (not for all merchants). Some debit cards also offer cashback on pu...
Swagbucks + Revenue Universe Double Cashback: Get 4,000 SB on HomeChef "Can Be Combined with the Platinum Card HomeChef Offer"
Revenue Universe on Swagbucks is offering double cashback today. If you’re not familiar with Swagbucks, you can check out our previous introduction: Triple cashback on Revenue Univ...
Use at Your Own Risk: Linking Chinese UnionPay Credit Cards to US PayPal (Works with PayPal Key)
Many readers carry both Chinese and U.S. credit cards. In the original PayPal Key introduction, I mentioned that AMEX credit cards issued in mainland China (USD version) can be lin...
「Privacy nesting」is completely dead: a roundup of PayPal Key tricks that have already died [ongoing updates]
Note: This article only publishes techniques that have already been widely publicized, techniques that were not public but are already dead, and techniques we discovered ourselves....
Office Depot/Amex/Vanilla Gift Cards with No $5.95 Activation Fee
Office Depot/Amex/Vanilla gift cards are currently on sale with activation fees waived. We covered the Office Depot deal before; see: Office Depot $300 Visa Gift Card Sale, Profit...
Another Wave of AMEX Shutdowns, Possibly Related to PayPal Key?
Today we saw quite a few reports about AMEX shutdowns, so here’s a quick summary....