You can get free $10 in amazon credit if you have any Eligible Citi credit card by making it default payment for Amazon one click settings. Here is the link to the offer. This promo has been around for a while but if you have not taken advantage of it then you can register your Citi Credit Card on amazon.com for this promotion. The promotion is valid till Aug 15, 2017. If for some reason the offer page says that you are not eligible for the promotion you can remove all the Citi Credit card from your Amazon.com profile and try registering through the link after 24-48 hours of removing the Citi Credit card.

Below are terms from the offer page for your convenience:
TERMS AND CONDITIONS

• This promotional offer applies to the purchase of eligible items made with an eligible Citi credit card. The $10 credit may be redeemed on the purchase of physical products sold and shipped by Amazon.com and excludes gift cards, Kindle eBooks, instant videos, MP3s, and all other digital content and downloads.
  
  
• Offer available only to customers who were served an advertisement promoting the offer. To claim the offer, customer must first click through the ad and then complete the additional actions described. Eligible cards are only consumer branded Citi credit cards, except Costco Citi credit cards.
  
  
• An Amazon.com account with a valid Citi credit card is required to claim and redeem this credit. If, for any reason, your Citi credit card is inactive, denied, or ineligible, you will not be eligible to claim or redeem this credit. You are responsible for the final purchase price after the credit is applied, plus applicable taxes and shipping charges.
  
  
• This promotional offer is valid for a limited time only. Offer limited to one per customer and account. Amazon reserves the right to modify or cancel the offer at any time. If you violate any of these terms, the offer will be invalid, and the credit will not apply. This offer may not be resold, is nontransferable, not redeemable for cash, and is void where prohibited by law and in case of fraud. This offer may not be combined with other offers.
  
  
• Credit must be redeemed by 11:59 p.m. PT on August 15, 2017. Unredeemed credit will expire after that time. If any of the products purchased with the credit are returned, your refund will equal the amount you paid for the product, subject to applicable refund policies. Credit redeemed on a Kindle or Fire device will be applied to the Amazon.com account registered to the device.
  
  
• American Airlines, AAdvantage and the Flight Symbol logo are marks of American Airlines, Inc.

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Etihad miles have great value proposition for redeeming them on inspirational awards such as A380 First Apartments. Also there are great business class redemptions you can get on Czech Airlines and Brussels Airlines along with some Indian subcontinent domestic redemptions on Jet Airways. We talked about general details of the program a while ago which can be found here. Despite these great redemptions being there Etihad miles for lowest tier level member expires 2 years from the date they are earned regardless of any activity on the account. But the good part is you can still get reasonable value out of expiring miles if there are no travel trips where you can use those miles.

Most of the airlines have reward shop where you can redeem your miles for variety of merchandise. Etihad Airways also have similar reward shop which can be accessed here. But rather then spending miles on any over priced merchandise you can redeem your miles for two items at a redemption rate from 0.6 cent/miles to 0.66 cent/mile. Below are the two options: 

Amazon gift cards:
There are several denominations of gift card available starting from $5. Below are the links to few of those options:

• Amazon $5 gift card: You can redeem this gift card for just 900 Etihad miles.
• Amazon $50 gift card: You can redeem this gift card for 8200 Etihad miles.
• Amazon $100 gift card: You can redeem this gift card for 16500 Etihad miles.

Etihad Reward Card:
Etihad reward card comes in two flavors. Physical visa card and Electronic or virtual visa card. The Physical card has a one time cost of 2955 miles (so not worth it in my opinion) whereas the Electronic or virtual visa card has no upfront cost. There is 0.99 cent load fee which is included in the mileage redemption cost. These reward card's have validity of 72 hours and any unused funds are converted back to Etihad miles. These cards are like any other visa e-gift card and can be used at any online merchants (I have personally used it at Amazon.com and to pay Energy bills).

You can load these cards online at a redemption rate of ~0.66 cents/miles depending on how many miles you convert. The good news is you can load the reward card with $5 for just 880 Etihad miles. You need to provide the physical address and phone number the very first time you subscribe for the reward card and the verification can take 3 to 5 business days for processing. But once this processing is done the loading going forward is instantaneous. You can see below a snapshot of the interface where you can choose the amount to load.

As you can see this is not one of the best of redemption rates, but if you have those expiring miles; getting them to use at any online merchant of choice at ~0.66 cent/mile value is a great redemption option. Here is the direct link to the reward card page.

Hopefully this will help avoid those left over or expiring miles from going to waste!

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There is the new app in the town called Drop which is currently in beta and where you would earn extra points for doing what you do regularly which is shopping at your favorite store. For most of us these are places that allows us to earn lot of miles and points.
To begin with you can select up to five brands/stores where you would like to earn extra points and link the credit/debit card which you want to track for earning points on to Drop app.  Apart from these there are on-going one time targeted offers from Drop where you can earn extra at either your selected earning store or any other store with certain amount fixed or variable points based on spend and have an expiration date. 

You can earn any where from 1% to 3% of your spend based on the store you are going to make your purchase from. The way Drop works is it earns you anywhere from 10 points/$ to 30 points/$ based on the store selected and every 1,000 Drop points are valued at $1 which can be redeemed for variety of gift cards. The gift card redemption starts from 5,000 points onward. 

Below are the few of the many available merchants where you can earn rebate at the time of this writing. The earning rate may change any time though:

• Amazon - Earn 20 points/$ (2%)
• Safeway - Earn 11 points/$ (1%)
• Walmart - Earn 10 points/$ (1%)
• Target - Earn 10 points/$ (1%)
• Uber - Earn 15 points/$ (1.5%)
• Whole Foods - Earn 10 points/$ (1%)
• Best Buy - Earn 10 points/$ (1%)
• 7-Eleven - Earn 10 points/$ (1%)

Apart from above the targeted offers could be for fixed amount of points. For e.g. below are couple of the recent targeted offers going around:

There is a nice promotion where you can earn maximum of 25,000 Delta Skymiles by earning 1,000 Skymiles for each unique partner activity. If you have not taken advantage of it yet you still have till 06/30/2017 to earn at-least few thousand delta skymiles if not the max of 25,000 miles. ​​Here is the promotion link to register for this offer before you go ahead and spend at the partners. The terms state that it is open to all Delta Skymiles members except the one residing in APAC Region. Also only the partner member with whom you have not earned any miles from March 24, 2016 to March 23, 2017 are eligible for this promotion. The detailed terms can be found here.

Below are few examples (provided you have not done any transactions with them through Delta Skymiles) to earn easy miles.

• Skymiles Dining - By dining at any of the dining network partner restaurants and with spend as low as $1 you can earn 1,000 bonus mile in this category. If you are not a member of Skymiles Dining program then you can enroll for current sign-up promotion of earning up to 3,000 Skymiles.
• Skymiles Shopping - By shopping at any of the partner merchants such as walmart.com and homedepot.com through the Delta Skymiles shopping website and ordering any item of more than $1 you would easily earn 1,000 miles in this category.
• Car Rental or a Lyft Ride - Delta recently partnered with Lyft where you could earn 1 mile / $ spent on Lyft Ride. Since even Lyft's line service qualify for this earning you can easily earn 1,000 miles with Lyft ride.  If you have any car rental's coming up in the next few days you could even credit one of those rental to Delta Skymiles and easily earn bonus 1,000 miles.
• Hotels & AirBnB - You could have one of the up coming stays with any of the hotel partners or AirBnB and that could give 1,000 Skymiles. 
• Credit Card partner - You could sign up for one of the American Express Delta co-branded card and earn a 1,000 Delta miles apart from the miles for sign-up for the credit card. This may not be on every one's list though.
  

There are bunch of partners in each of the category and except airline partners most of other unique partner activities qualify. You can find the complete list of partners here. 

As you can see you can easily earn 2,000 to 3,000 Delta Skymiles without much effort at all. If you have stays or travel coming up and you can credit to Delta Skymiles then you earning potential can easily go much higher with this promotion. So, go ahead and get the easy one's at-least while the promotion lasts.

Unfortunately as I mentioned this seems to be a targeted offer so check your email to see if you have received this offer. But If you are not a member of any of these dining programs there is still a nice sign up offer for both of them.

Earn up to 4000 United Airlines MileagePlus miles:
MileagePlus Dining has offer where you can earn up to 4000 miles for dining by joining on or before June 30th 2017 and dining within the first 30 days. The earning bonus are as below:

• 500 miles for signing up and registering your debit/credit card for dining program.
• 1000 miles for spending $25 or more on your first participating restaurant visit.
• 500 miles for spending $25 or more on your next participating restaurant visit -- up to 5 times. So in total you can earn 2500 miles here.

For additional terms kindly check the details here.
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Earn up to 2000 American Airlines AAdvantage miles:
American Airlines dining has offer where you can earn up to 2000 miles for dining by joining before July 31st 2017 and dining within the first 30 days. The earning bonus are as below:

• 1000 miles for spending $25 or more on your first participating restaurant visit.
•  500 miles for spending $25 or more on your second participating restaurant visit.
• 500 miles for spending $25 or more on your third participating restaurant visit.

For additional terms kindly check the details here.

​So, check your email and get going for easy American Airlines AAdvantage or United MileagePlus miles.

There has been an American Airlines AAdvantage offer where you could earn 10k miles for making purchase at 4 partners which expires on 06/15/2017. There is no need to register and the details can be found here. 

Below are the list of partners for this promotion:

• AAdvantage DiningSM
• AAdvantage eShoppingSM
• 1-800-Flowers.com
• Vinesse

The earning of miles is tiered as shown below:

• Qualifying Transaction with 2 Participating Partners, earn 2,000 bonus miles
• Qualifying Transaction with 3 Participating Partners, earn 5,000 bonus miles
• Qualifying Transaction with all 4 Participating Partners, earn 10,000 bonus miles

So effectively to earn any miles under this promotion you at-least need to make two partner purchases. Also there are minimum purchase requirement for each of the other partners which are mentioned in terms and conditions here. 

The interesting part is you could easily earn 2000 to 5000 miles with minimal spend by doing below:
Dine at AAdvantage dining participating restaurants for $25.00 in single transaction:
Use your debit/credit card registered in AAdvantage Dining program for $25 dinning. There are many participating restaurants but assuming you do not have any plan of dining you can simply purchase a $25 gift card at one of your favorite participating restaurant or you can purchase $25 gift card for "Buca di Beppo" in-store which should trigger this activity. This gift card could be used for future dining or sold to gift card re-sellers for 70% of the face value.

Spend $50 in single transaction at any AAdvantage e-shopping partners: 
Go through online AAdvantage shopping portal and make a purchase of $50 in single transaction. Ensure that the purchase you make at given merchant does qualify to earn miles. If you do not have any purchase planned you could simply purchase gift card at merchants where purchasing gift card earns AAdvantage miles or one of the easier option is to purchase $50+ gift card of various merchants at Raise.com through AAdvantage shopping portal.

Purchase at 1800flowers.com for minimum amount possible using Code A49 and your AAdvantage membership number:
This is little involved, but if you do this purchase it would be your 3rd partner purchase and you would earn 3k more AAdvantage miles under the AAdvantage partner promotion itself. You can search for minimum purchase amount item such as this for $14.99 and earn 20 miles/$ for this amount plus 3k bonus miles for AAdvantage promotion.

As you can see there are easy ways of doing above 3 offers and earn 2k to 5k AAvantage miles even without doing the "Vinesse" offer. So, take advantage of these easy miles offer before it expires.

One of the often overlooked aspect of earning miles is through shopping. Various rebate/shopping portals offers miles, points or cashback when you click through their website. In addition to that there a various promotional offers usually from shopping portals affiliated with various airlines where in addition to advertised rate of earning miles for giving merchant you earn additional miles for spending specific total $ amount within given time frame.

Since most of the merchants today participate with rebate/shopping portal sites, it is important to compare the miles, points or cashback you would receive going through a specific portal. The two good rate comparison meta-sites are Cashbackmonitor and  Cashbackholic. When you search for a merchant; both of these websites list all the cashback portals and their rates for a given merchant (Do check the actual cashback, as in rare occasions the rates shown by meta-sites may be different then shown on the cashback portal). 

When selecting a particular portal it is important to know few things below:

• What is more valuable to you (miles or cashback) and what cash value you assign to miles for given airlines?
• Are you buying an item which is excluded in the terms and conditions for cashback?
• Is the cashback rate an up-to rate or fixed rate? For an up-to rate you need to check if the item you want to purchase has any different tier of earning by looking at the terms.
• Is there any special promotion (usually for airline miles) which stacks with the rebate offered for a given merchant by the same program?

The reason it is important to know above is to maximize your rebate in miles/points or cashback. As an example below is the search on meta-site Cashbackmonitor for Ebags.  

As you can see from above that you can either earn 20% cashback from Topcashback or 24 points/$ from British Airways shopping portal. Assuming you assign a value of 1 cent/miles to British Airways miles and it is one of program where you actively collect miles you are essentially getting a value of 24% cashback at British Airways shopping portal.  If you are not into British Airways miles (also known as BA Avios) then the second best offer is to go with 20% cashback.

You can also stack the shopping portal rebate when any other merchant discount codes (provided the rebate portal terms does not exclude it) as well as American Express Sync offers for the given merchant. 

So next time you shop make sure to go through these rebate portals to maximize your miles/points or cashback earnings.

If you stay in the USA and can sign up for credit cards then the one card you should have in your wallet is the American Express Hilton Card. American Express has two variants of the card below:

• ​Hilton HHonors Card with no annual fee
• Hilton HHonors Surpass card with $75 annual fee

If you do not have Hilton HHonors card then it is better off to start with the $75 annual fee version as apart from better benefits it also has higher sign up bonus such as the current 100k Hilton Honors point for $3k spend in 3 months and a free weekend night earned after first anniversary of the card membership.

After first anniversary of the Hilton HHonors Surpass card once you receive the free weekend night certificate you can downgrade the card to No annual fee Hilton HHonors card.

The Deal:

1. After few months of the downgrade to No annual fee card you can check for the upgrade eligibility at this link. At the time of this writing you can get 100k HHonors bonus points after spending $3k in 3 months for the Upgrade from No annual fee card (No weekend certificate though). The bonus amount varies depending on the publicly available offer for the sign up of the card but usually there is some HHonors bonus points if you are eligible for the upgrade. Also since it is a upgrade you do not get hit by the hard credit pull as well as your account open date retains to the original opening date of your card.
2. Once the spend is met and you receive the HHonors bonus for upgrade you can downgrade the card back to No annual fee card. You do get partial refund of the fees and you are back again in the queue waiting to become eligible for upgrade again.
3. Rinse and repeat and you will have nice stash of Hilton HHonors points without any new credit inquiry.​

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