My week in manufactured spending: Post-Canada edition

Update: iConsumer has lowered their Giftcards.com payout to 0.8% cash back. There’s nothing like a trip to Canada to make you appreciate what you have back home. I don’t care that they have universal healthcare. I’ll take great manufactured spending opportunities over free healthcare any day. After spending a week in Ontario and witnessing the incredibly depressing … Read more

Last day to earn 2% cash back at GiftCards.com through Yazing

Update: At 4:30 PM today, Yazing confirmed they are in fact still paying out 2% cash back at GiftCards.com, despite their listing showing only 1.5%. Update: It seems Yazing dropped the payout prematurely. As of 3:50 PM, they’re only offering 1.5% cash back at GiftCards.com. The next best alternative is iConsumer, which is once again … Read more

Is Walmart hard-coding registers to reject Metabank gift cards?

Walmart Money Order

Update: As of Sunday, February 22, the issue has been resolved. I’ve been MIA (aka in Canada) lately and just got back on Tuesday. Yesterday, I headed out to unload a few gift cards and ran into some issues. I was going to save this for my weekly manufactured spending column on Monday, but I’ve … Read more

My week in manufactured spending: January wrap-up

If you didn’t visit the blog last week, don’t worry you didn’t miss much (other than a Watts Riot-type situation). Thank you to all the readers who emailed, DM’d, and left comments on various posts. Your support and positivity are appreciated. Some of you expressed concern that I would stop blogging, which I assure you is not the … Read more