@MrVietnam how does the cashier know what kind of card you’re swiping?
@MISTERCHEAP I was just saying that using Chase Ink for prepaid Visa/MC gc to buy gc at Acme gets you the 5% back when its not the one quarter per year that Discover offers 5% back. I buy the VC/MC for anticipated expenses like dental visits, car insurance, quarterly health insurance and major purchases. Having 3 windows replaced this summer ($12K) and will buy prepaids to use at the lumber yard. IDK when it happened but the Chase 5% spending cap went from $15K to $25K a year! I keep 2-3 $200 prepaids on hand for unexpected bills.

I’ve posted about these deals and Zillions cards several times, not sure why only now it’s being discussed.😉 I prefer the smaller deals like $5/$5 for buying $25 gc and $10/$10 for buying $50. Sometimes I stacked the $5/$5 or $10/$10 with a Fresh Pass $5/$5.

In Feb. I bought $25 PetSmart and Chewy (via Zift Zillions) gc for $5/$5’s. In March bought 8@$50 Lowe’s gc and 2@$50 Zillions cards. Bought a stove from Lowe’s to use up the gc, had 10 @$10/$10 to use in 2 weeks. In April I bought 8@$25 Zillions cards (Ace HW) and have used half of those already. The rest will be used in July. Always purchased on Sat or Sunday for 4x points. Always paid with prepaid Visa/MC from Staples for 5% Chase Ink.

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@mrvietnam said in 100% back in FETCH pts wyb TWO Pepsi Zero 20 oz at Walmart B&M (reg. $2.48 each) | Ends 6/8:

I also have two more 100% back deals on my Fetch account. One is for 2 free Kinder chocolate singles and the other is for Pedigree Drizzlers dog food (limit 3). You have to keep in mind that free is not really free. When cashing out on Fetch for a $50 gift card you will pay 10% in points extra to get that $50 gift card, so these 100% back items are cheap, but not free (expecially if you have to pay a bottle fee and sales tax like you do here in CA). I wish Fetch offered you to cash out for $100 gift cards, too.

A lot of these 100% items go quickly, so even if it says the rebate is good for a few days or weeks, I highly recommend going to get it right away. The rebates for the nicer items often go fast. I remember about a month ago Fetch offered 100% back on 3 packs of Best Foods mayonnaise at Sam’s Club and you could do the deal several times. The deal was supposed to be valid for about a week. I looked for the deal before going to Sam’s Club about two days into it and it was already not available anymore.

agreed on the 100% back in points, which is why I titled the post that way. the op is copy/pasted from another site and they say ‘free’ but I know better, I’ll have to edit the op.

most decent $50 GC are priced in the 53-55,000 points range. so 8.5-10% devaluation of points. I’ve never understood why Fetch feels compelled to do that. I can understand on the prepaid Visa type cards, but if I choose to cash out for a GC on Ibotta, it’s straight $ for $ on merchant cards. It’s a little shady IMO and they aren’t very transparent about how they come up with these ‘prices’ for GC’s. I mean Acme/Alb are 54,500 for $50? come on.

@mrvietnam said in Staples - New Offer STARTS AGAIN June 2025 Recycle 6 ink carts at store get $15 in rewards make sure offer is activated:

For some reason I have the June battery recycling offer and the June cartridge recycling offer listed twice in my account. Why would that be?

I took one for the team. I just got back from recycling twice this month because both the cartridge and battery offers were listed with the same valid dates TWICE in my account, but I only got back 600 points for my second 6 carts and nothing for the battery, so lesson learned. Even though an offer is double listed in the app, they will still only pay out once. I didn’t take a loss though because I still got 50 cents each for the second 6 cartridges (I only paid a dime a cart, so still made 40 cents each) and it answered a burning question I had.

I like how it tracks, too. Thanks, MC.

Upside offers rebates on purchases in the gas station store too.
Buy a 20 oz Pepsi Zero with linked CC and submit receipt on fetch for 1000 pt/dollar.
Should trigger SM $17 reward too.

Don’t blame me, if it has a short exp date! Some bargains, if you get one use, it within 4 months!