I love credit cards so much! v7.0 - 2025 (see first page for add'l details)

[afan]

Totally agree with this. Hawaii is a pain to get to from Chicago, and such a long flight, compared to so many other places I want to visit in the world. And really incredibly expensive. We travel to a lot of islands, so we know island life is expensive. But it was expensive, expensive. We enjoyed our trip and wouldn't mind going back someday if it made sense as a stopover flighting west.

I'm on the west coast and feel the same way. I can fly to most/all of the east coast in less time than I can fly to HNL. I've been three times, though once was for work. To Maui and Oahu. I haven't been in over 20 years and I'm ok with that. I'd like to go to Lanai, Molokai and the big island but there's so many other places that aren't as expensive. But I'm also not a beach vacation person, not that any of those 3 trips had a ton of beach time, but activities adds to the cost.

 

[VGCgroupie]

I made one purchase of $300 in Amex gift card with the Amex deal. Tried to buy DGC on 3 different websites all declined. Tried to pay my DVC dues directly, declined. When checking balance online to be sure the previous attempts didn't place holds, the Amex site errors out.

I know it’s always been a warning that Amex GC are hard to use. Decided to give one a try and yep seems to be more hassle than the 6.67% savings is worth.

 

[VGCgroupie]

I made one purchase of $300 in Amex gift card with the Amex deal. Tried to buy DGC on 3 different websites all declined. Tried to pay my DVC dues directly, declined. When checking balance online to be sure the previous attempts didn't place holds, the Amex site errors out.

I know it’s always been a warning that Amex GC are hard to use. Decided to give one a try and yep seems to be more hassle than the 6.67% savings is worth.

Just an update I was able to use it at BJ's on a DGC a couple hours ago, so far the order has not been cancelled.

 

[eticketplease]

I made one purchase of $300 in Amex gift card with the Amex deal. Tried to buy DGC on 3 different websites all declined. Tried to pay my DVC dues directly, declined. When checking balance online to be sure the previous attempts didn't place holds, the Amex site errors out.

I know it’s always been a warning that Amex GC are hard to use. Decided to give one a try and yep seems to be more hassle than the 6.67% savings is worth.

I kept getting declined. It would send a notice to my amex app and I would say yes it is me and then the website would error and say it couldn't be placed.
AMEX got the charge and then it showed an instant credit for the $750 multiple times.

I may give it one more shot for use at BJ's.

I was shocked you got declined for dues as well as I have been able to use the $15 Proctor and Gamble rebate visa's there so I figured they would take everything.

Glad it worked for you at BJ's though.

 

[Psychodisney]

Homepage for Chase? Or Instacart? I'm not seeing anything.

On the instacart app, there is a banner of promos about half of the way down on the opening page. "Donate groceries & essentials to your local food banks". Once you click, there are local and national options to choose from.