Awhile ago American Express offered $50 x2 = $100 offer to some platinum card holders. Since American Express is also offering monthly $30 PayPal credit, it may be natural to attempt to checkout at HomeDepot using PayPal and kill two birds with one stone. Well, except it may not work.…
Uphold Debit Card: 2% and 4% Cashback
by SJSJ
April 20, 2026
As mentioned in an earlier post, I have been searching for a “fun” debit card to replace my existing ones. I recently reviewed the 1% and 3% debit cards from MetaMask (which are effectively 1% cards). It turns out that both Uphold debit cards are now working again in the…
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Sony Xperia 5 II – A Compact Flagship Xperia
February 14, 2021People seem to argue whether Xperia 5 II is a flagship phone or not but all you need to look at is its specs to realize that it is in fact a flagship phone. The confusion arises because Sony also releases Xperia 1 models (see my Xperia 1 II review…
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Amex $30 PayPal Credit Not Reset Yet. Platinum Glitch!
February 7, 2021American Express Platinum has a temporary monthly $30 PayPal credit. The credit is supposed to reset each month but it looks like it hasn’t. As you can see in the screenshot above, in the month of January let $30-$29.65 = $0.35 PayPal credit expire. Then I charged enough to trigger…
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[YMMV] – $GME on Sale for ~17.1k Membership Rewards
January 28, 2021Requires Schwab Platinum card. Closing Thoughts I like the stock. Not a financial advice. P.S. hat tip lol-24
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Porte Mobile Banking 3% APY (on up to 15k) and $50 Referral Bonus
January 22, 2021Porte Banking gives 3% APY on balance up to $15,000. They also provide $50 referral bonus for both referrer and referred granted the referred user’s account receives a $500 or more in direct deposit within 6 months of account opening. https://portebanking.app.link/qhRsa526icb Using above referral supports this blog The direct deposit…
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We have seen way too many financial technology (fintech) “banks” as of late and I don’t think I am exaggerating when I say a good chunk of them are bad. Most of the time you can can see exactly how awful it is after reading about their pitch. In some…
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American Express Platinum $30/Month PayPal Credit
January 1, 2021American Express has just announced monthly $30 PayPal Credit for Platinum cards. This promotion will run from January 1 2021- Jun 30 2021, meaning you will be able to get $30 * 6 = $180 value from it. More information about this promotion can be found at https://www.americanexpress.com/en-us/campaigns/new-offers/charge/platinum-card-bwxvzkcs/paypal-faqs/ Closing Thoughts…
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$200 American Express Appreciation Credit for 2020 Posted
January 1, 2021American Express has credit $200 “appreciation credit” to some account. In my case, this was posted in one of my business platinum account. Closing Thoughts Interesting enough this was posted in a account that saw $200 clawback in 2020 for 2019’s credit. I suppose what amex taketh away amex giveth,…
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Downgrading or Cancelling UBS Visa Infinite to Refund Annual Fee
December 23, 2020UBS Visa Infinite comes with an hefty annual fee of $495 so it is natural that sometimes some folks will look into cancelling or downgrading the card upon renewal. You will pretty much always be told that you can downgrade the card to the regular UBS Visa card but the…
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PenFed Pathfinder (50k +$50) Relaunches. Get it again!
December 21, 2020PenFed Pathfinder is here again. This time around it has 50,000 signup bonus. It still comes with annual $100 travel credit. The travel credit is easy enough to use that is practically cash. Easy Annual Fee Waiver The relaunched card comes with $95 annual fee but the fee is waived…
