When I purchased the Soda stream last week the Costco employee told me she takes the CO2 cartridges to a pawn shop for $6 refills.
Thanks! I knew there had to be one nearby. I know there is one in Ellicott City also since I have gone to the Target and Kohl's in that area.
I was having some FOMO over everyone getting the Aviator Biz cards, so I applied for one last week and got a message that they needed to do further review and I would be notified in 10 days. I decided to give them a call and they declined me for having opened too many cards. The rep specifically said "you have opened 6 cards recently, that's too many. You need to not open any new cards for a while." So I asked her how long does she mean and she said 2 years! Now, I had read that Barclays had a 6/24 requirement kind of like Chase's 5/24 but that Barclay was not consistently enforcing it. Last year I applied for Arrival+ and JetBlue when I was already well over 6/24. I guess they weren't enforcing it then but they are now? Maybe it's still on a case by case basis?
Thank you for posting these instructions and to @platamama and @SBWB48 for their advice as well. I followed these instructions and was able to make the payments to my student loan, hurray! I did have a small problem when signing into Masterpass because I guess I had already linked some of my Citibank cards. When I logged in it would only show me those as options and no option to add anything else. I decided to create a new Masterpass account with a new email address and that worked for me to add the MCGCs. I'll do one more set of payments this way before the end of the month which will really help with some AMEX MSRs!
I wonder what would convince them to give me more cards then? I only have the JetBlue card with them right now. They probably don't like that I only used the Arrival+ to get the bonus then never really put any additional spend on it. I guess I need show Barclays some love by spending more on the JetBlue card. They have to get behind AMEX though as there are only so many cards I can put spend on at one time, lol!
Good luck!!
PNC is easy, you can self service it from within your online account - no SM or calls needed. It's in an odd spot, click your VW account and then in the tabs on the right is "Preferences" and right there you can change the edition of your VW. You can downgrade once every 45 days, or upgrade once a business day. It even suggest to you which account fits based on a couple metrics. Mine flat out suggested the $500 basic versionOnce you get the edition you want, scroll to the bottom for the "Change Edition" button. You're downgraded by the next day. Now you only need a min bal of $500 or $500 in DD's each month to avoid the $7 monthly fee.
Thank you!
