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How much have you spent on gift card fees this year?
« on: October 20, 2013, 12:07:16 AM »
Just passed the 5k mark ytd!

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Re: How much have you spent on gift card fees this year?
« Reply #1 on: October 20, 2013, 12:11:30 AM »
Just passed the 5k mark ytd!

How do you track that??

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Re: How much have you spent on gift card fees this year?
« Reply #2 on: October 20, 2013, 12:11:59 AM »
Quicken

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Re: How much have you spent on gift card fees this year?
« Reply #3 on: October 20, 2013, 12:14:50 AM »
Just passed the 5k mark ytd!
So you spent ~$48k on gc's this year?

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Re: How much have you spent on gift card fees this year?
« Reply #4 on: October 20, 2013, 12:15:38 AM »
Around 450k
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Re: How much have you spent on gift card fees this year?
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Re: How much have you spent on gift card fees this year?
« Reply #6 on: October 20, 2013, 12:19:12 AM »
Around 400k
I don't think anyone will top that.  :)
Great job.
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Re: How much have you spent on gift card fees this year?
« Reply #7 on: October 20, 2013, 12:24:41 AM »
Oh come on cv, I'm sure you've done double that

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Re: How much have you spent on gift card fees this year?
« Reply #8 on: October 20, 2013, 12:24:45 AM »
If u work for a living, why kill urself working?

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Re: How much have you spent on gift card fees this year?
« Reply #9 on: October 20, 2013, 12:38:03 AM »
2K. I think I'm done for the year.


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Re: How much have you spent on gift card fees this year?
« Reply #10 on: October 20, 2013, 12:41:35 AM »
Around 450k
We are in October, so $45k a month, or $1500/day.  Completely doable, to pickup three cards / day.  My question is how do you avoid AA, FR, etc?

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Re: How much have you spent on gift card fees this year?
« Reply #11 on: October 20, 2013, 12:54:38 AM »
Completely doable, to pickup three cards / day.
This would waste a lot of time each day. Better to do 10-20k in a day. At least that is what I have been told.
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Re: How much have you spent on gift card fees this year?
« Reply #12 on: October 20, 2013, 12:57:35 AM »
We are in October, so $45k a month, or $1500/day.  Completely doable, to pickup three cards / day.  My question is how do you avoid AA, FR, etc?
The question isn't the spending,  the question is the cashing out.

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Re: How much have you spent on gift card fees this year?
« Reply #13 on: October 20, 2013, 12:57:54 AM »
This would waste a lot of time each day. Better to do 10-20k in a day. At least that is what I have been told.
I was speaking more from an "average" standpoint.  Obviously, logistically, it make more sense to only make one or two trips a week. My main question was regarding the CC's.

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Re: How much have you spent on gift card fees this year?
« Reply #14 on: October 20, 2013, 12:58:15 AM »
This would waste a lot of time each day. Better to do 10-20k in a day. At least that is what I have been told.
Where would they let you buy 20k GCs with CC at once?!

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Re: How much have you spent on gift card fees this year?
« Reply #15 on: October 20, 2013, 12:59:35 AM »
The question isn't the spending,  the question is the cashing out.
That I can hear also (at least until recently).
15 APs = $15k
6 BBs = $30k

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Re: How much have you spent on gift card fees this year?
« Reply #16 on: October 20, 2013, 01:00:39 AM »
Where would they let you buy 20k GCs with CC at once?!
Maybe he meant three/four stores in one day, once a week, as opposed to one store a day every day.

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Re: How much have you spent on gift card fees this year?
« Reply #17 on: October 20, 2013, 01:02:01 AM »
My main question was regarding the CC's.
IP/IB can take a lot of abuse. Many other CC's if you scale up you won't have a problem. If you did not lie on an Amex app then a FR is no big deal.
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Re: How much have you spent on gift card fees this year?
« Reply #18 on: October 20, 2013, 01:03:02 AM »
Maybe he meant three/four stores in one day, once a week, as opposed to one store a day every day.
Bingo. Nice when they are all close to each other.
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Re: How much have you spent on gift card fees this year?
« Reply #19 on: October 20, 2013, 01:07:06 AM »
IP/IB can   take a lot of abuse. Many other CC's if you scale up you won't have a problem. If you did not lie on an Amex app then a FR is no big deal.
Can,  or cannot?