24,800 Points…And A Free Slurpee; Last Days To Finish Freedom Q3 Bonus Spending

Hi Dan, can you please tell me the easiest way to pay my mortgage with a CC?

@dan. Don’t you feel awkward going to WM and emptying $2k of $200 GC’s ?? I sure do … And same with unloading at FD.

Whyd you wait so long to tell us about 7/11 coding as a gas station!!??
But thank you :]

3 Freedoms – are they in others’ names, or can you maintain multiple concurrently?

Will the freedom card give 5% back next quarter when using Amazon payments?

Dan,

I was planning on going tomorrow to 7 Eleven. How many more cards did they have after you almost bought them out? 🙂

Please explain how you liquidated these cards?
Vanilla cards don;t work anymore to load on bluebird and Evolve only lets one payment per account per month. Unless you used 5 Amazon accounts?

How do I check how much I spent under the q3 eligible purchases?

@Anonymous:

He’s been saying that for years already… You must have been sleeping.

@abraham:

yes

@Avremel:
Use the ATM?

@Shmulie:
You can downgrade from sapphire preferred…

@abraham:
No

@yyk:
Left some for ya 😉

@Mendel:
Vanilla loads once again at WM and even easier at Family dollar to serve cards.

But money orders are easiest.

And I still have several evolve bills.

@Mir:
Check your activity and tally it up?

The 711 I checked only carried reloadable gift cards. Is the one vanilla reloadable too and are there any reloadable cards that can be loaded on serve etc?

YYK says yes and Dan says no. Hmmmmmmmm lol

so you don’t think doing over $500 at a gas station in one day is a problem with chase?

@dee: Don’t worry dee. Chase knows Dan and Dan knows Chase. There’s no way they’d shut down Dan. After all they know Dan is the Man.
You’d probably be ok also. I personally don’t usually do more than 1 per card per day at 7-11.

I’ve done it several times.

Does the savingsedge still work with Staples for visa cards? Did not notice it on the current statement.

@Dan:

Dan, I could’ve sworn Amazon payments worked in past years for 5% cashback… I trust your opinion over my memory but then what did we do in previous 4th quarters for Amazon. Please refresh my memory. Thanks!

DAN, I am mad as heck right now. I went out of my way late at night after maariv tonight to drive to seven eleven to get some one vanillas and load them up. I get to the cash register with my three $500 OneVanilla cards slurppe freezing up my left hand and an eager chase freedom heating up my right and the lady tells me that I can only pay for them or any reloadable card in the store with cash. I asked her if that is a local rule and she said it’s true of all 7-11’s. I had no recourse. She simply thought she was right. Dan, what would oyu have done. have you ever experienced this at 7-11?????

*any loadable

worst of all…they charged me for the slurppe! nu,the lost points opportunity it should be a kapparah bzman elul. its the points in beis din shel malah that have the most milage in any case.

@Dan:

Thanks
Vanilla works again at all Walmart’s? cashier or ATM? I didn’t hear about that. Does it need a work around or its as simple as the ones from staples?

I don’t have a family Dollar store around me, any other ideas?

Thanks

@abraham. Answer is no

Dan, why did you wait until now and not do this on 7/1?

http://www.doctorofcredit.com/new-option-for-liquidating-debit-cardsgift-cards

@Avremel: why feel awkward? Iv walked Walmart and did $7500 worth at on shot

Buying an iphone. Is that considered telecom? Do i get x5 the points on ink?

@abraham. The answer is no

I have been buying gas cards on my business ink Mc to pay for peoples expenses which worked for both of us but it’s not that easy to get gas cards anymore. I don’t have a freedom card and only my wife has the sapphire preferred. With the business card what would be my best option other than gas cards and store gift cards. Maybe any of these cash Or credit gift cards with the smallestt fee? Which one would be good option?

Last time I checked 4,544.55 x 5 doesn’t equal 24,800

and how did you get past the 711 $500 limit per 2 hours or so? in all my experiences you have to make multiple trips….

….and saying one vanilla loads at walmart is a stretch.

@math read the post

Does anyone know if the seven eleven on union tpke in hillcrest is coded as a gas station

answer me dan! i hate being ignored a=especially in such an iportant inquiry. i put the time in to post and to give you business through traffic on the site/ reciprication is desired here.

@dee:
I know people who spend orders of magnitude more than that.

@Dan’s the man:
Do you think Chase is some one man operation?

Their lending and A/A teams have never heard my name, I guarantee you that.

@mk:
Still works fine.
If you buy too close to the end it might not show up until the next statement.

@yyk:
Nope.

@nathan eibishitz:
I’ve never experienced that but it doesn’t surprise me that NYC metro would make rules of that due to the amount of people playing this game there.

@Mendel:
At the cashier you need to press cencel to change it to debit.

Buy money orders. There are stores in every city that will sell them for debit cards.

@David R:
What’s the difference?

@Ta:
None in CLE alas.
Looks like 1 in NYC…if it’s not down yet 😉

Though that drives costs up.

@Ari:
Depends on where you buy it.

@Mark:
You should get a new Ink card as a Visa to get the bonus 1%.

@Math?:
4,500×5.5 + 45×1.1.

@e:
Did you try the link in the post?

@nathan eibishitz:
Grow up man.

I don’t answer comments 24/7, I answer them when I have a chance.

I love the over-entitled attitude some people have as if they’re doing me a massive favor for visiting my free to access site that I’m now indebted to them or something. It’s a mutual relationship, if there wasn’t good content here that was worth something for you, then you wouldn’t visit. Do you think your “beis din shel malah” will appreciate that attitude towards a fellow being?

Along with Lucky, Dan is one of the most responsive bloggers in the travel rewards blogging community. There is no way anyone can complain he doesn’t respond…

@nathan eibishitz:

try being more polite next time
it goes a long way in life

any response on spending that much at 711 in one stop? doesn’t seem to add up.

@nathan eibishitz:

This is why I hate frummies.

On a different note I’ve been turned down from 7-11 several times over the past two months while trying to buy paypal cards. I’ve been told that you can only pay cash. It really takes a lot of effort to coerce them to let me try the credit card which, of course, works.

Also, I’ve had a problem at 711 trying to buy more than $500 at a shot. They also “lock” the register so to speak so even if I buy $500 on my freedom I can’t purchase $500 on my wife’s freedom for a set period of time.

Have you every had problems loading Vanilla cards at 711? Do you have a relationship with a clerk there to expedite the process?

Thanks.

Dan my apoliges. I didnt mean to be rude. I was overeager for an answer and you certainly do much more for your followers than any of them individeually do for you. As well, the anonymity of internet comment posts tends to remove my inhibitions. I and everyone else appreciate evertyhing you do for us!

@Mark:

while comment on dan was inappropriate your comment on “frummies” was also unjustified and a generalization. Please dont stoop to his level.

Personally, I have tried many 7-11s outside of NY and they all refused to let me pay with a CC

@Anonymous You’re right I’m sorry

If you try hillcrest, please let us know

can anyone explain how is freedom x5 GC better than staples x5 GC? (My calc is $4 extra cost in fees for 500, no biggie)

Is there a way to get a notification when someone replies to any of my own posts here? Not on forum

@E: Staples’ highest denominations are $200 + $6.95 fee. 7-11 has $500 for $4.95…

Dan, Is there an analogous link to how 7-11’s code on Discover? They have 5% on gas right now too, correct? Thanks for bringing my attention to 7-11’s – wouldn’t have thought to do it otherwise!

@Dan: No difference when you do it during the quarter. I was just wondering if there was a reason you held out this time when previously you did your spending right away.

@7-11: I’m 0 for 5 in NY and about 10 for 10 OOT.

@yyk: @abraham: Discover Card for the has been giving 5% cashback in the last quarter of each year for “online shopping”. I have used Amazon Payments successfully in the past to cash out on that benefit. This year, however, I noticed that Discover stated “purchases made using virtual wallets or third party payment providers will not receive 5% Cashback Bonus” so it looks as if Amazon Payments may not work for the bonus.

7-11 in New Jersey only took cash for gift cards.

@Dan: I tried today at 2 7/11s in Chicago and they only accept cash as a form of payment. also I tried to load 200 from my staples visaGC at Walmart on my serve card and it declined it 3 times. Even on my bank debit card got declined. I put the last 4 of the GC as a pin and it did not work. Then I tried to buy a money order at walmart with the same gift card and it still did not work. Has anything changed? What can I do? Thank you in advance.

@Yaakov:

That’s right! It was Discover that I used Amazon payments for in years past for the “online shopping” category. Thanks for that reminder! (I thought I was losing my mind for a moment.) Though, it stinks that they are now changing the terms…

@Mark:

From all the issues you are experiencing it sounds like you’re from the NY area. Here in Cleveland, I personally have had no issues at all spending thousands in one visit to 7-11, including today as well. A few months ago 7-11 here (as well as CVS) stopped allowing CC’s for Vanilla Reloads. However, you can still purchase the OneVanilla card with a CC. The only limitation at 7-11 with the OneVanilla card (and probably all transactions as well) is that they seem to have a max of around $500 or maybe even up to $1,000. When I tried to do 2 cards in one transaction for a total of $1,009.90 the machine didn’t allow it, but 1 card for $504.95 worked fine. I can do this same transaction right after the previous one as many times as I want without having to wait.

Has anyone been able to get their One Vanilla dollars onto their bluebird account? If not, which online payment vendor do you recommend to pay other bills? Thank you. Shabbat shalom!

My 7-Eleven does not carry onevanilla however they do have my vanilla and Green Dot Visa cards. Will any of those load onto serve?

Are you now again able to load Visa VR at Walmart onto Bluebird or only Serve? I tried a few weeks ago onto my BB and had to wait for a manager to void it which took forever and I got many angry stares.
Do all 7-11’s count as gas stations for the Chase Q3 promo or only those with gas pumps?

Thanks and gut gebenched yor!

Anyone have any success in CA?

Follow up to 58.
I tried to load my VR onto my BB at Walmart tonight with no success. I tried as I would a VGC and a MCGC (change payment) and no luck. Did you mean that Visa VR’s work if buying a money order at Walmart?

Any success using CC in Queens NY?

Dan: My Cahse Sappite preferred is almost one year old. I got my points, I’m good to go, I no longer need the card, I have an Ink card, and the Sappite seems pointless to me so I don’t want to pay the yearly fee. I want the Freedom now so I get the next quarter’s bonus (I spend a lot of money online). What to do now?
1- downgrade to non-preferred sapphire?
2- downgrade to Freedom?
3- close the card and open a Freedom so I get the signup bonus.

Every 7-11 I go to only let’s cash for gift cards. How did you use credit card?

@igor just go and tell them that you were able to do it before and ask if they can just try to run it. I did this today and after a little prompting they ran the card and it worked.

@mark was it In ny ?
3 clerks in ny said no cc
Manager came n said no as well

I bought a $500 gift card at 7-11 and them went to family dollar to upload it to my serve card with no problem. I then went back to 7-11 pretty much right nearby and tried to buy another one but this time they said cash only. So I went to a different 7-11 and this time found a paypal my cash and paid with my chase and then immediately uploaded to PayPal which was much easier and the fee was $3.95 instead of $4.95.

This was my first time doing it. I think the whole process was pretty easy it’s just that some 7-11 don’t take credit cards.

Good luck!

does Bluebird still accept reloads? what is lowest cost option to fund BB without going to WM?

Dear Dan

The vanillaone can those be used to purchase money order from anywhere?
Or just in WM

Thanks a lot for the info!
I tried to buy MOs with $200 Visa GC from Staples and also with OneVanila using the workaround, but nothing works… They are being declined all the time… Any other suggestions on how to liquidate these GCs? I went to Family Dollar once, but it is 45 min drive from me and let’s me deposit only 1 $500 GC… Also, somebody mentioned in comments here and other posts something about Target, TD GO, PayPal My Cash, etc… Could you or anybody please provide me the links where I can find additional info… Thank you in advance!