by PointsGuru | Jun 7, 2017 | Retail
Katy Perry is hiding an unreleased part of her new album WITNESS exclusively in the Postmates app. Be one of the first in the world to hear it by unlocking it, right now. It doesn’t release until Friday but you can get it before anyone else! Plus, Postmates will give you a chance to be flown to an undisclosed location to see her first live performance after the album drops this Friday.
If you are unfamiliar with Postmates then go here and read about how they work compared to other delivery apps. You will also get a $100 delivery credit if it’s your first time using the app.
Here is how to get your $100 Free Credit on Postmates and win unreleased Katy Perry Witness songs now!
1. Download the app or head over to Postmates.com to sign up.
2. Select your location then and add any free offers to your cart or the meal that you wish to have delivered or good from any local business. Add them to your cart, and create an account. Use this promo code 478n and you should get $100 in credits to cover the delivery fee. Then go in and enter the code Witness.
Existing Users
1. Open the Postmates app.
2. Enter code WITNESS at checkout for your shot to see Katy live.
3. Find the secret easter egg to 👂 unreleased new 🎶 after you place your order.
4. Good luck and Bon Appétit, Baby!
by PointsGuru | May 9, 2017 | Retail
Amazon’s Echo is getting a touchscreen and many new features. The online retailer introduced the Echo Show featuring a 7-inch touchscreen and dual 2-inch stereo speakers. It can also do everything that an Alexa-powered device can do right now, including access third-party skills, tell you the forecast, set a timer, and play music. The Echo Show is available for pre-order in black or white and will start shipping on Wednesday, June 28.
Right now if you buy two of them and enter the code SHOW2PACK at checkout, you’ll activate a special $100 discount. So you’ll get two new Echo Shows for the price of two standard Echos. Go in on this deal with a friend, or buy a few for yourself (they work very well in multiple rooms). Echo Show brings you everything you love about Alexa, and now she can show you things.
Watch video flash briefings and YouTube, talk with family and friends (if they have Echos as well), see music lyrics, security cameras, photos, weather forecasts, to-do and shopping lists, and more. All hands-free—just ask. Select two-day shipping when you checkout, and Amazon says you’ll have it the very day it’s released. Read More â–¶ (more…)
by PointsGuru | May 4, 2017 | Retail
TopCashback is one of the highest paying shopping networks for getting cash back when buying things from stores such as Macy’s, Best Buy, Amazon, and more. When you compare across sites such as Ebates, Befrugal, and MainStreet Shares most of the time you will find this one as the top earning cashback site. As an incentive to join before they are offering new members a $5 Amazon Gift Card sign-up bonus when you join using this link.
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by PointsGuru | Apr 26, 2017 | Retail
Trim is a free service that offers automated statement credits to your Visa credit or debit card when you connect your card, activate cashback coupons via Facebook Messenger, and make qualifying purchases on your card at participating retailers or in select shopping categories. It not only monitors your credit cards but your bank accounts to help cut down on unnecessary bills or overpaying.
Save up to $40 in Bonus Statement Credits
You can earn $40 in bonus statement credits on your everyday purchases when you sign up for Trim. After linking your Visa card you get a grocery offer then after activating that offer in Facebook Messenger they send two more offers. Here are some example offers:
- Spend $5 or more at any U.S. grocery and get $1 back. Can be repeated up to ten times for a total savings of $10. Expires 7/3/17. Tip: You could charge this on a card that is paying a quarterly 5% cashback bonus to double up on the rewards. Chase Freedom Visa is paying a 5x Bonus on Grocery stores during this quarter.
- Spend $5 or more at any U.S. restaurant and get $1 back. Can be repeated up to ten times for a total savings of $10. Expires 7/3/17.
- $10 Back On $50+ Grocery Purchases
- Spend $20 or more at any U.S. movie theater and get $10 back. Expires 8/31/17.
How To Activate Trim Savings
1. Head over to Trim to Sign-Up!
2. Click “Savings” under the Menu in your Trim account and register your Visa credit card or Visa debit card with Trim Savings. Tip: We recommend using a credit card over debit cards for any purpose.
3. Once you register, Trim Savings will offer you cashback coupons via Facebook Messenger.
4. Activate the cash back coupons that you want to use via the “Activate” button on Facebook Messenger.
5. After you’ve Activated the offers, you simply use your Visa card to make qualifying purchases.
6. Once you’ve made a qualifying purchase, the statement credits will be automatically applied to your Visa card account.
Trim Remembers To Cancel “Free Trials” So You Don’t Get Charged
While some may love the bonus incentives to use Trim they offer some possibly really helpful services as well. Trim also helps you cancel unwanted Credit Card Subscriptions. If you are like me you sign up for tons of “free trial offers” such as Netflix and Hulu then lose track of all the subscription services that are registered with what promotion. Trim can easily find and cancel unwanted credit card subscriptions. Trim finds all the subscriptions on your credit card or debit card such as Amazon Prime or Google Play renewing then sends you a list of them in a text message and then cancels the ones you don’t want.
Save on Your Cable Bill
Trim is offering an exclusive Comcast cost-cutting service. Perhaps, this will keep you from cord-cutting if you save money with your cable bill. Trim will monitor your Comcast bill and use chat to get reductions. They basically negotiate your rate and you pay 25% of the first bill’s reductions so if they save you $10 per month then you’ll pay $2.50. That certainly beats calling into the cable service but we recommend you do that every 6 months or so anyway no matter what the hassle to get deeper discounted rates or promotions. We hope they expand to include Spectrum and other cable providers such as Cox Communications.
Statement Credits for Targeted Visa Transactions
Trim also offers a card link program as part of Visa Trial Link. When you link your Visa card with Trim, you’ll get targeted cash back offers in the form of a statement credit. This works with Visa cards only. Any account linked in Trim with the bank login should automatically be part of the card-link program (without inputting the card numbers) managed exclusively via Facebook messenger.
Should I Share My Login and Credit Card Information with Trim? Is it Safe?
The Login you give them is actually converted to a token where Trim only gets read-only access to your transaction data. They cannot move money or make any changes to your account. You can revoke their read-only access token at any time. They also use 256-bit SSL encryption for their website and all server-side databases using Amazon Web Services (AWS), a secure online data storage and hosting service that is used by the Department of Defense, NASA, and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). They have stated that your data on our servers will never be accessed or used by any other party and they will not sell your data or use it in any way without your permission.
Conclusion
As a credit card and frugal nerd I am more than excited to give this service a go. I am not worried about sharing login information as I will be using a credit card that is not connected to a bank account. I will most likely use my Capital One Visa and Chase Freedom cards. My only worries are that this program will interfere with Rewards Network or Shell Fuel Rewards in which I get a big savings on my gas and that is much needed right now. I plan on testing this service out and seeing how it goes and writing more as I go along so make sure and bookmark this page or add us on Twitter and Facebook for updates.
by PointsGuru | Apr 22, 2017 | Retail
Sam’s Wholesale Club is a place I have shopped with my Dad since I was a kid. We would go there and pile up the cart full of a week’s worth of food and it was always exciting to me! My Dad uses his Sam’s Credit Card for all of his purchases. He swears by it as it gives him 2% cash back on his purchases but that card is no longer available and their current card offering is a 1% back card for purchases at Sam’s Club.
Normally Warehouse clubs do not earn your category 5% cash back or higher cash back. They are normally in the fine print to not earn anything and most clubs would not take all of the credit cards as they were exclusive. So warehouse clubs used to be where I would go to meet minimum spending requirements for a sign-up bonus and not really expect big cash back on a card but that has changed. This past year there has been a huge marketing ploy to get cardholders to switch over to Chase and Discover after the American Express shakeup at Costco. This is when Costco decided to partner with Citi Cards instead. Discover and Chase have been giving huge 5% back incentives for warehouse shoppers.
Sam’s Club is also offering a generous Cash Back Program on top of the cash back you can earn using a credit card. Sam’s Plus Members earn $10 in Cash Rewards for every $500 in qualifying pre-tax purchases during a membership year with a maximum reward of $500 per 12-month period. Cash Rewards are loaded onto the Sam’s Plus Member account about two months before the end of the membership year (award date).
If you are not yet a member of Sam’s Club you can join using this link and get a $20 e-gift card.
1. Â Discover it
Go Here:Â Â Â Discover it
Wholesale clubs are included in the 5XÂ categories through June 30, 2017. Â It’s been this way for several months now so this has been our top card used at Sam’s Club. You can also get cash at the register up to $60 interest free. Yes, it works just like an ATM Machine but no fees.
With the 5X bonus categories, you can earn $75 cash back on up to $1,500 in purchases each quarter after you activate the bonus.
For new cardmembers Discover will match the cash back you’ve earned at the end of your first 12 billing cycles.  So any purchases you made in the 5% bonus categories will get you 10% cash back!
2. Â Â Bank of America Cash Rewards
There are 2 no annual fee Bank of America cash back cards which include wholesale clubs as a bonus category. With the BankAmericard Cash Rewards Visa and MLB BankAmericard Cash Rewards card, you can earn 2% cash back at wholesale clubs on up to $2,500 in spending each quarter. You’ll also get a 10% bonus if you deposit your cash back into a Bank of America checking or savings account. If you redeem $50 cash back, you’ll get $55 in your bank account.
3. Â AMEX Starwood Cards
Go Here:   Starwood Preferred Guest® Credit Card from American Express
With the AMEX Starwood card, you’ll earn 1 point per $1 spent at Sam’s Club. But for every 20,000 Starwood points you transfer to airline partners (with a 1:1 transfer ratio), you’ll earn 5,000 bonus miles. That means every $1 spent on the AMEX Starwood cards is worth up to 1.25 airline miles!
Plus, AMEX Starwood cards give you access to AMEX Offers.  I recently got an amazing deal on my American Express Blue Cash card where the AMEX Offer was 20% back on purchases of $100+. I purchased $500 in Sam’s Gift Cards with this offer and got $100 back.
4. Â Citi Double Cash
You can earn up to 2% cash back at Sam’s Club with the no annual fee Citi Double Cash card. You’ll earn 1% cash back on every purchase, and another 1% cash back when you make payments, as long you meet the minimum payment on your monthly statement. You can redeem cash back rewards for a mailed check, a statement credit, or for gift cards, when you reach $25 in rewards.
5. Â Chase Freedom Unlimited and Chase Freedom Card
Go Here: Â Â Chase Freedom
With the Chase Freedom Unlimited, you’ll earn 1.5X Chase Ultimate Rewards points (1.5% cash back) per $1 you spend on all purchases with NO limit.  Chase Freedom Visa also ran a 5% back category for warehouse clubs during the Holiday season and we bet they will again soon because Discover Card is continuing their promotion of this.
by PointsGuru | Feb 28, 2017 | Retail
Friday, March 3, and Saturday, March 4, JCPenney stores will have a Free $10 off $10 coupon available in store. 2 in 100 coupons will be for $100 off $100, and 3 in 100 will be $20 off $20 as well. While Supplies Last. Stores open at 8am Friday and 7am Saturday! Reach out to your local JCPenney for store hours as they may vary by location. Most stores are participating.
You can buy novelty tees for only $12 at JCP so that makes them $2 with this coupon. You may also want to sign up for their email list because they have sent me a few $10 off coupons via email and to my home address.
Another great offer is the Staples $10 off $10. This offer keeps coming to my inbox weekly but I have yet to post about it. I have been going in Staples to buy a box of K-cups of Coffee for $12 and paying only $2 just like the JCP offer above. Just sign up for their email list and it shall come soon!
Remember, when doing any shopping online to use Ebates to get cash back.
Past promos
Friday, December 16 and Saturday, December 17 JCPenney stores will have a Free $10 off $10 coupon available. 2 in 100 coupons will be for $100 off $100, and 3 in 100 will be $20 off $20 as well. While Supplies Last.
