I love credit cards so much! v4.0 - 2021 (see first page for add'l details)

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When I put in the card number it immediately said VISA not accepted underneath in red, then I noticed the list of cards it did accept. So if you were able to put in the CIU without an error, you’re probably fine. And we had just paid my son’s (different school, but also through FACTS) with a visa, so I guess it’s school based.
Well that makes me feel better. I specifically got the CIU because we could use it for tuition and get a bunch of extra UR in the process. His tuition bill should show up in July so we’ll see if it can be paid with the card.
 
We don’t typically travel around the holidays but are planning to make up our 2020 postponed Christmas Disney trip this year. I got on a few hours after flights were released and they were already super high (typical for my airport to MCO is between 6-10,000pts) they were already up to 15,000 and by the time I could get with my hubby on a solid plan some had hit 20-40,000. I know this year is weird with covid and I locked them in around 16,000 but it’s still way higher than what I was hoping for. Any guesses as to if Southwest might add flights therefore dropping some of the prices or am I just out of luck? I got spoiled by Covid pricing and everything going down!
 
Lodging Serve at Dollar General, is there a cap like at WM? WM I do $99 to be safe, can I do $200/400 at DG? I’m in the land of one on every corner! And the staples here have VGC! Yes, I’m on vaca and I’m out buying VGC, LOL.

Dollar General no longer allows loads with cards. Family Dollar still does if there are any of those.
 

Congrats!

The number on the back of any Chase card should work. You can SM too. I know for the Hyatt cobrand it takes them 48 hours to verify your membership after approval, they won’t expedite until that happens. Not sure if United is the same. I think the approval emails are usually delayed, so it might be past that already.
Thanks! I called and they are expediting my United Quest. I also got a high CL. I’ll never understand how these cards work. Last time they denied me on a biz card for too much credit extended, now they give me a large CL. 🤪
 
I quoted @VickieMouse on this but I guess it didn’t work right. Talking about Serve loads…
This is what I was thinking also, @LilSweetPeaPhoto , but hesitated to mention since I’ve been using my VGC’s for tuition so I wasn’t 100% positive. I’m thinking this changed around the same time that Walmart started messing with their load process. FD is what you want if there are any of those where you are.
 
Lodging Serve at Dollar General, is there a cap like at WM? WM I do $99 to be safe, can I do $200/400 at DG? I’m in the land of one on every corner! And the staples here have VGC! Yes, I’m on vaca and I’m out buying VGC, LOL.
I’m pretty sure loading GCs on serve stopped working at DG in January 2020…FD works but only $500 then there is some time frame…an hour 2 hrs who knows until another load works at the same store
 
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Greetings from my happy place where I am getting ready to go head to the beach for the day :). But will likely first hit Staples again, LOL.

When I booked this room (IHG) I booked a Monday-Friday so 3 nights, 4th free. When I checked in he’s like, oh you’re here till Saturday now, I guess the girl moved my 4 days over a day. I said, no, I’m checking out Friday. He’s like well make sure to call and get your points back for Monday night. I told him I won’t be able to. Now here‘s my dilemma. They have been AMAZING accommodating me. And switching things up for me. My flight Friday is 9pm. I could actually use having a hotel till later and wasn’t thinking about it. Do I ask him to extend back to Saturday? It’s no more points, plus I can’t get “Monday nights“ points back, since my 4th night was always free. I plan on going to the beach Friday until I leave for my flight.

I joke that I always come home covered in sand, LOL.

I have been thinking about you ALL DAY. Literally! The flight I booked for today was a college visit with my older DS, who woke up with a fever and raging sore throat. Fortunately he’s vaccinated, so no Covid concerns, but he was in no shape to travel today. I cancelled my AA flight, easy peasy. Went to rebook for next week, but my miles hadn’t been refunded. Turns out you HAVE TO CALL to get miles refunded - it doesn’t happen automatically. 9 hours on hold (never answered) and 2 times on chat (after 4 hours, got randomly disconnected, second time -another 4 hours), AA claims they’ve processed the refund and I’ll get my points back tomorrow. If not “just reach out again by phone or chat” 😂😂😂😂😂. I swore it was karma for my response to you and not fully appreciating AA’s ineptitude!!!!

OMG! I’m sooooo sorry you had to deal w/ AA! I wouldn’t wish that “fun“ on my enemy….well maybe I would, LOL. Yeah, I kinda had my return open ended. I thought about coming back on Saturday vs Friday. The AA guy was like sure, just call back and we can change that. I said, and wait 12 hours again? He said, well let’s hope it’s not that long. I hope it works out for you.

I quoted @VickieMouse on this but I guess it didn’t work right. Talking about Serve loads…

This is what I was thinking also, @LilSweetPeaPhoto , but hesitated to mention since I’ve been using my VGC’s for tuition so I wasn’t 100% positive. I’m thinking this changed around the same time that Walmart started messing with their load process. FD is what you want if there are any of those where you are.

I’m pretty sure loading GCs on serve stopped working at DG in January 2020…FD works but only $500 then there is some time frame…an hour 2 hrs who knows until another load works at the same store

There are A few family dollars. So I can do the full $200 card at a pop? Can I do $400 and use 2 cards? Or I guess $500 and use 3? I could actually possibly get some VCG moved through if that’s the case. I’ve been doing the $99 loads (most the time I can get them to do 2) at my WM so it’s taking forever to do $1k, I actually have $400 of VCG in my keep at home waiting to do, After the son took the last $400, I decided keeping them in my car hidden was safer, LOL.

This will give me something to do when I need a break from the sun, LOL.
 
Greetings from my happy place where I am getting ready to go head to the beach for the day :). But will likely first hit Staples again, LOL.

When I booked this room (IHG) I booked a Monday-Friday so 3 nights, 4th free. When I checked in he’s like, oh you’re here till Saturday now, I guess the girl moved my 4 days over a day. I said, no, I’m checking out Friday. He’s like well make sure to call and get your points back for Monday night. I told him I won’t be able to. Now here‘s my dilemma. They have been AMAZING accommodating me. And switching things up for me. My flight Friday is 9pm. I could actually use having a hotel till later and wasn’t thinking about it. Do I ask him to extend back to Saturday? It’s no more points, plus I can’t get “Monday nights“ points back, since my 4th night was always free. I plan on going to the beach Friday until I leave for my flight.

I joke that I always come home covered in sand, LOL.



OMG! I’m sooooo sorry you had to deal w/ AA! I wouldn’t wish that “fun“ on my enemy….well maybe I would, LOL. Yeah, I kinda had my return open ended. I thought about coming back on Saturday vs Friday. The AA guy was like sure, just call back and we can change that. I said, and wait 12 hours again? He said, well let’s hope it’s not that long. I hope it works out for you.





There are A few family dollars. So I can do the full $200 card at a pop? Can I do $400 and use 2 cards? Or I guess $500 and use 3? I could actually possibly get some VCG moved through if that’s the case. I’ve been doing the $99 loads (most the time I can get them to do 2) at my WM so it’s taking forever to do $1k, I actually have $400 of VCG in my keep at home waiting to do, After the son took the last $400, I decided keeping them in my car hidden was safer, LOL.

This will give me something to do when I need a break from the sun, LOL.
For me at FD it depends if the cashier knows how to do the multiple swipes….where I am most don’t so I swipe my serve card 3 times..doing 200, 200, 100
 
@Judique Totally surprised I was able to snag a reservation at HR Chesapeake Bay for 7/4-9 in case we decide to stay “home” rather than going to Aruba. Not the same 50th birthday trip but at least Puggles can join us. I was going to try for 7/3 but decided I wanted nothing to do with trying to cross the Bay Bridge on a holiday weekend Sat with all of the other crazies!
 
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@Judique Totally surprised I was able to snag a reservation at HR Chesapeake Bay for 7/4-9 in case we decided to stay “home” rather than going to Aruba. Not the sam 50th birthday trip but at least Puggles can join us. I was going to try for 7/3 but decided I wanted nothing to do with trying to cross the Bay Bridge on a holiday weekend Sat with all of the other crazies!
How is Puggles doing
 
There are A few family dollars. So I can do the full $200 card at a pop? Can I do $400 and use 2 cards? Or I guess $500 and use 3? I could actually possibly get some VCG moved through if that’s the case. I’ve been doing the $99 loads (most the time I can get them to do 2) at my WM so it’s taking forever to do $1k, I actually have $400 of VCG in my keep at home waiting to do, After the son took the last $400, I decided keeping them in my car hidden was safer, LOL.

This will give me something to do when I need a break from the sun, LOL.
Just this morning I hit two Family Dollars with my Visa gift cards. I ask to load a serve card, tell them $200 and after it goes through I say I'd like to do one more and I do another $200. Then I went to the other Family Dollar only 5 minutes away and did the same thing. $800 loaded today. Then I went to Staples and bought more gift cards. :D
 
@Judique Totally surprised I was able to snag a reservation at HR Chesapeake Bay for 7/4-9 in case we decide to stay “home” rather than going to Aruba. Not the same 50th birthday trip but at least Puggles can join us. I was going to try for 7/3 but decided I wanted nothing to do with trying to cross the Bay Bridge on a holiday weekend Sat with all of the other crazies!

You did better than me. I was trying to get a night there this weekend and it wasn't available. I'm (instead) spending the night in Easton with Fairfield Inn and then a few nights in Ocean City.

Of course, I was being wishy washy about going at all, so stuff got booked up. It also looks like they are doing 2 night minimum and I just wanted to spend one FNC and save the other 2 for October.
 
Oh and adding on, during my searches for availability for FNCs in 4 different chains, I found that IHG was charging 80,000 points for the same room I booked in the Spring for late July for 50K points. They even pulled the 2 HI Express's up past 40K so that you couldn't use a FNC.

@LilSweetPeaPhoto I may need your North Carolina HI Ex location to find a room near a beach!

In better news, I used my Chase Best Buy offer to get a $350 gift card to help pay DVC dues.

Then, spent $75 at Petsmart on my Hyatt card - Chase offer 20% off up to $14.

So I have $49 coming back and I have another Petsmart offer on my Disney card. Usually use Chewy but the prices are identical so for the cash back and since I'm out anyway, brought home some of the pet food.

Will finish my Lowes offer for another $250 for my dues, with $25 back.

Every little bit counts and this is stress free. I really like offers where you 'just use your card'.
 
There are A few family dollars. So I can do the full $200 card at a pop? Can I do $400 and use 2 cards? Or I guess $500 and use 3? I could actually possibly get some VCG moved through if that’s the case. I’ve been doing the $99 loads (most the time I can get them to do 2) at my WM so it’s taking forever to do $1k, I actually have $400 of VCG in my keep at home waiting to do, After the son took the last $400, I decided keeping them in my car hidden was safer, LOL.

This will give me something to do when I need a break from the sun, LOL.
At my FD it's like others have said, $500 limit for an unknown period of time. They load one card for me in one transaction for a total of $400 with 2 swipes. Then we do a second Serve card for $100. If we try to do $500 in one transaction it errors out, so this is the quickest way I've found to do it, and the cashiers know exactly what to do (I've had to help a couple of them). I do this at two different FD, so in one day I'm able to buy $1000 in VGC at Staples and unload all $1000 the same day. At my local Walmart I'm not able to get the VGC to go through at the money center or customer service, but I can load $200 at a time at the regular registers. I guess this is definitely YMMV, but for now I've been lucky at my Walmart.
 
At my FD it's like others have said, $500 limit for an unknown period of time. They load one card for me in one transaction for a total of $400 with 2 swipes. Then we do a second Serve card for $100. If we try to do $500 in one transaction it errors out, so this is the quickest way I've found to do it, and the cashiers know exactly what to do (I've had to help a couple of them). I do this at two different FD, so in one day I'm able to buy $1000 in VGC at Staples and unload all $1000 the same day. At my local Walmart I'm not able to get the VGC to go through at the money center or customer service, but I can load $200 at a time at the regular registers. I guess this is definitely YMMV, but for now I've been lucky at my Walmart.

I wish I had the motivation to get this done! Nice part time job!
 
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