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DDF user Emkay reported on DDF 4 days ago that Google was integrating the ability to send money into Gmail.  DDF user magnus then posted that Google is temporarily not charging any fees to send or receive credit card payments.

The payment are considered a regular purchase and will earn miles.  You should probably avoid using Citibank cards however as they are notorious for changing online purchases into costly cash advances.

They’re rolling out the ability slowly, but if you receive a payment from someone you’ll be able to send money to anyone else within a few minutes.

I still don’t have the ability to send directly from Gmail, but once someone sent me a penny, a red “Send Money” button appeared when I went to http://wallet.google.com/

I have organized a conga line on DDF where forum members can get in line to receive a penny from the person before them in line and then they will pass on a penny to the next guy once their account is enabled to send payments.

Of course I used my grandfathered Chase Freedom Exclusives card so that I’ll earn 11 miles for sending that penny

There is a hard limit of $9,999.99 that you can send at once.  If you try entering more than that you’ll get this cute message:

While there doesn’t appear to be any limit on how much you can send in total, Google is not going to like it if you send very large amounts or if you pass money back and forth between accounts and they will likely close your Wallet accounts if you do that.  So take it easy and don’t go sending $5,000 to meet a spend threshold in one shot unless you’re willing to risk testing the limits and possibly losing your ability to use Google Wallet.  Hopefully they’ll warn you before closing your Wallet account but they don’t have to.

It’s unknown when the free processing promotion will expire.  Hopefully it will last for years like the $1,000 in free processing that Amazon Payments lets you do every month

You just gotta’ love the plethora of manufactured spend methods we have today to meet those climbing spend thresholds.  Between this new development, Amazon Payments, Bluebird, Vanilla Reloads, Vanilla Debit cards, Visa/MC gift cards with pins (that can earn you quintuple points and) that can be cashed out via WalMart ATMs, Bill Pay, or even Money Orders this is truly a golden era.  Perhaps not as scalable as those gold dollar coins I used to get by the truckload, but cards are a whole lot lighter than coins!

Bluebird is the best thing since sliced bread.  It’s possibly never been easier to meet all of your spend threshold needs.

I’m not going to rehash info on Bluebird in this post, you can just read these posts instead:
-Using Gift Cards From Chase To Meet Spend Thresholds For Free
-Having Fun Cashing Out Gift Cards
-Is Bluebird The Next Dollar Coin Churn?
-Another Flavor Of Vanilla: My Vanilla Debit Card
-Today’s Escapades
-Meeting A Spend Threshold In One Night.
-Need To Meet A Spending Threshold Deadline? Send And Receive $1,000/Month With No Fees Using Amazon Payments!

At any rate there are numerous ways to cash out funds that are in your Bluebird account including paying off your credit card bill, paying your mortgage, sending a check electronically, and transferring money into a checking account.

Through this Tuesday only you can also order up to 100 checks for free.  Just login to your account, hover over “My Account” and click on “order Bluebird checks.”

You do have to pre-authorize Bluebird paper checks online before they are cashed.

Get A Free 1 Year ShopRunner Membership Or Extension With An American Express Card

ShopRunner provides for free 2nd day shipping and free return shipping to dozens of stores!

If you already have a Shoprunner account just click to signup, enter your AMEX card number (it won’t be charged), click on verify eligibility, click on complete account setup, and then click on “Sign-in to get your Free 1–year extension” right under where it says “Already a ShopRunner member?”

HT: jack12, via DDF

McAfee Total Protection 2013

-This is normally $59.99 and is on sale for $29.99.
-The $40 Promotional Dell.com eGift Card will arrive 10-20 days after purchase via email and expires 90 days afterwards. You can use the $40 eGift card for computer, accessories, or anything else sold by Dell.
-If product is returned for a refund after the card has been redeemed, the value of the redeemed card will be deducted from the refund amount.

$10 Off $10 At H&M Stores With Wrapp

As I’ve blogged about in the past, Wrapp is a Facebook app that allows you to send gift cards to friends.

However if you click on the $10 promo link above you will get $10 to spend at H&M for yourself.  It will be added to your Wrapp wallet and expires in 10 days.

I have used the $6 H&M gift card in the past and had no problem adding the $10 gift card to my wallet as well.

Currently you can send your friends $6 to spend at H&M stores, $5 to spend at Office Depot stores, $5 to spent at American Apparel, and more.

There’s no catch or obligation though your friend will need to signup for the Wrapp app as well on Facebook.  You can send the free gifts to as many friends as you want and they can send gifts back to you.

You will need a smartphone and the Wrapp app to use the gift cards in a store. You can only use 1 Wrapp gift card on a purchase.

HT: bubbles, via DDF

Related: When Do My Miles Or Points Expire?
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Audience Rewards: Starwood
Audience Rewards: Delta
Audience Rewards: US Airways

Audience Rewards allows you to answer trivia questions to earn miles from Delta, USAirways, and Starwood.
Delta’s miles are just about the worst out there besides for El Al and they never expire, so there’s not really any point to waste your time there.

But Starwood and USAirways require activity every 18 months to keep your points alive, so take 20 seconds and answer a trivia question and you’ll get 2 miles or points per correct answer.
You can only answer each question once, but you can answer one USAirways question for 2 miles and the other questions for Starwood points.

Here are the correct answers:
Q: At what theater does Newsies play? A: Nederlander Theatre
Q: The main character in Matilda The Musical has what skills? A: She is telekinetic
Q: Who starred in the movie version of Mamma Mia? A: Meryl Streep
Q: What song is not featured in the Broadway show Rock Of Ages? A: Pour Some Sugar On Me
Q: Motown The Musical contains mostly new music or covers of existing songs? A: Covers of existing songs
Q: Where is Jekyll and Hyde set? A: London

HT: jmansour via DDF and milenerd

Free BJ’s 60 Day Pass Linky

BJ’s Store Locator Linky

You must activate the pass by 07/04/13.

The nice thing about BJ’s is that (unlike Sam’s and Costco) they accept manufacturer’s coupons and they have a wider variety of items.

HT: kracked dude, via DDF

Update: DEAD!

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Related posts:
-Having Fun Cashing Out Gift Cards
-Using Gift Cards From Chase To Meet Spend Thresholds For Free
-Is Bluebird The Next Dollar Coin Churn?
-Another Flavor Of Vanilla: My Vanilla Debit Card
-Today’s Escapades
-Meeting A Spend Threshold In One Night.
-Need To Meet A Spending Threshold Deadline? Send And Receive $1,000/Month With No Fees Using Amazon Payments!
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$100 Visa Gift Card Linky

You can buy up to 2 of these “per customer.” The $10.60 per card instant savings will be applied on the final checkout page.

The total for 2 $100 cards is just $190 shipped.

If you have one of the awesome Ink Bold, Ink Plus, or Ink Cash cards you will earn 5 points per dollar.  If you order 2 cards that’s 950 points on the purchase, or more if you’re trying to meet the $5K spend threshold to earn the lucrative signup bonus.  Plus of course you come out $10 ahead besides for the points earned.  It’s also helpful to meet spend threshold on any other card.

You can create a pin by calling the number on the back of the card and then liquidate this card in Walmart by loading it to your Bluebird account (free), getting cash back on a debit purchase (free), by cashing it out for a money order (70 cents for up to 4 cards), or by paying off any bill ($1 for up to 4 cards).

HT: yitzf, via DDF

Starbucks stores nationwide are giving away free tall house blend coffees until noon.

No coupon is required for your free morning pick-me-up.

HT: good sam, via DDF

This one may take a minute or 2 to figure out but it’s not too hard.

To avoid the error message you’ll get if you click on the link below you can follow these steps.  In Internet Explorer click on Settings>Internet Options>Security>Custom Level.  Then scroll most of the way down to “Scripting” and click on “Disable” under active scripting. Click OK at the bottom to confirm the change.  Then click on the link below to order your free subscription.  Afterwards be sure to take the same steps to re-enable your active scripting.

Free Wall Street Journal 26 Week Subscription Linky

It can take a long time until these free subscriptions start coming, but they do eventually come and there’s no catch or credit card required!

I typically alternate the subscription between myself, my wife, and my son. I’ve been getting my WSJ fix for years this way

HT: Chaya

Someone just gave me over 100 tickets to give away for today’s 4:05pm opening day game in Cleveland!

If you’d like some free tickets to see the Yankees take on the Indians in Progressive Field just leave a comment with how many tickets you would like and I’ll email them your way.

The tickets are in the nosebleeds, but hey, free is free, right?

Be sure to include your email address in the email address field. Your email address won’t be published.

To receive a coupon for a free slurpee just text the following code to 711711: Slurp7

This may not work with some prepaid phone carriers.

The coupon will expire 04/30. Once you click “redeem offer” on the coupon link you will have 15 minutes to present your phone in a store to receive your free slurpee.

7-Eleven Store Locator Linky

Kosher Slurpee List (Chicago Rabbinical Council)

HT: rots5, via DDF

Update: DEAD!

Free Organic Cotton H&M Newborn Onesie Linky

According to my confirmation email (which went to my spam folder) I will be receiving a free 0-2 month newborn size onesie in the mail along with a 20% off H&M kids and baby coupon in the mail.

“Each participant that submits multiple entries (as provided in the on-screen instructions) will receive up to three (3) Giveaway Packages each comprising of: one (1) baby onesie and one (1) printed catalog containing a 20% discount coupon on purchases of kids and baby products. More than three (3) entries from the same person and/or email address will be disqualified at the discretion of the Sponsor.
Each Giveaway Package contains one (1) baby onesie suggested retail price of $12.95 and one (1) printed catalogue (retail value $0).”

HT: bubbles, via DDF

You must complete steps 1 and 2 by today, 03/25. Once completed you’ll have until 04/05 to download your free MP3s.

Step 1: If you don’t have the Amazon Local app for your smartphone click here to download it.

Step 2: Access the app from your smartphone and “buy” the $2 MP3 voucher for free.

Step 3: After a few minutes you can click here to confirm that $2 of MP3 credits have been applied automatically to your Amazon.com account

Step 4: Find MP3s to get by 04/05!

Jewish music downloads include 8th day, Lipa Schmeltzer, Moshav, Avraham Fried, Matisyahu, Blue Fringe, Benny Friedman, Yossi Green, and hundreds of other albums by Sameach Music!

Post a comment of what you will download!

HT: yitzyul, via DDF

Free 1 Year Regus Businessworld Gold Membership

An Avis Preferred membership number is required, you can signup for a free account at avis.com. Enter your wizard number to enroll for the free Regus membership.

You will receive an email with your membership number right away and you will be sent a membership card in the mail.  You can access the lounges for free with the email.  DDF member David B shares what you’ll find in a Regus office.

“As a Businessworld Gold member you can now enjoy:
-Unlimited, walk-in access to any of our 1200 global business lounges and cafés, with complimentary internet and refreshments.
-Preferred rates on meeting rooms, day offices and videoconferencing at all Regus locations.
-Access to professional administrative support, from packing and shipping to document printing and binding.”

HT: Gman, via DDF

Update: Don’t forget to get your free ices today!

Originally posted on 03/17:

Rita’s annual free ices for the first day of Spring is Wednesday, 03/20.

All customers will get a free Rita’s in a limited edition cup.

Flavors rotate by the day, but if you’re lucky your local store will have some of my favorites, like Passion Fruit or Chocolate Peanut Butter. What’s your favorite flavor?

Disclaimer: While Rita’s products are all kosher, only select stores are under rabbinical kosher supervision and only the water ices are parve. There are more than a dozen kosher certified stores in CT, FL, NJ, NV, NY, MD, and PA.

HT: PBurgUnc

Wrapp is a Facebook app that allows you to send gift cards to friends.

Currently you can send your friends $10 to spend at Shutterfly.com, $6 to spend at H&M stores, $5 to spend at Office Depot stores, and more.

There’s no catch or obligation though your friend will need to signup for the Wrapp app as well on Facebook.  You can send the free gifts to as many friends as you want and they can send gifts back to you.

You will need a smartphone and the Wrapp app to use the gift cards in a store. You can only use 1 Wrapp gift card on a purchase.

I sent my wife a $6 H&M gift card and she sent one back to me.  We proceeded to each purchase some adorable outfits for little Rafi and we  spent under $1 each after the gift cards!

Get A Free Sample Of Kate Spade Live Colorfuly Perfume Via Facebook

HT: SPGDude, via DDF

Priority Club/IHG has an extremely generous best rate guarantee policy where if you find a cheaper rate on a competing site they give you a free night.

I just booked a room on IHG.com at the Holiday Inn Express Times Square as I found a cheaper rate for the room on hotels.com.

You have to book the room on IHG.com before calling in to make a claim. Be sure to book a refundable flexible room rate in case the claim is denied for any reason.

After making the booking I called IHG at 800-447-2981 to file a claim and they approved my claim after 10 minutes on hold  They gave me a case number and said that my reservation will soon be adjusted to reflect the $0 room rate.

Every night I priced out is coming out cheaper on hotels.com, though it appears to be a limited time sale, so grab it as fast as you can!

HT: traveldealexpert, via FT and to Yossi-Malka Shapiro for posting the heads up to that post on the DansDeals Facebook group.

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Join the 12,800+ people who follow @DansDeals on twitter and you’ll get a tweet when a deal is posted on DansDeals.com!
You can even set up your mobile device to receive text messages (and choose which hours of the night not to bother you). After setting up your device be sure to opt into mobile notifications from DansDeals (it’s in the drop-down menu next to the blue “Following” button), so that you will never again be kicking yourself for missing a crazy deal!

Update: Today is the last day to enroll and get $5. The credit no longer appears instantly, it takes up to 3 days for it to show up.

Originally posted on 02/28:

Starbucks Offer Linky (Exp: 03/14)

-Valid for new members only.

To join you can either:
-Pick up a Starbucks Card from your local store and register it online. A $5 minimum load is required.
-Download the Starbucks mobile app, create an account, and get a digital card.

By using your card once you will also get 1 free drink (with no limit on its value!) or food item on or around your birthday.

Otherwise the program is pretty lousy, you need to use your card 25 times just to reach “Gold” which only gets you a free drink or food item after using your card every 12 times thereafter.  Remember that if you are buying more than 1 item to pay for it separately as every purchase counts as a credit towards free items.

HT: Steven, via DDF

Page 11 of next week’s Staples ad shows a $15 Visa prepaid card for buying $150 or more in Visa prepaid cards.

You get the $15 prepaid card via filling out an online EasyRebate. Limit of 1 per household.
I know that the $200 Visa card they sell has a $6.95 fee.

If you have an Ink Bold, Ink Plus, or Ink Cash card of course you earn 5 Ultimate Rewards points for every dollar you spend at office supply store like Staples, so you’ll come out ahead 1,035 points and $8.05.

Plus of course it helps you reach that $5,000 spend threshold to earn 50,000 bonus points on the Ink Bold or Ink Plus.

Even without the $15 prepaid card rebate it can make sense to buy $200 Visa cards on Ink cards.

Last time I scaled this quite nicely. Still working on all of the Amazon Payments from it, gotta go finish my February spending tonight!

HT: dovy2, via DDF

Free Wall Street Journal 39 Week Subscription Linky

It can take a long time until these free subscriptions start coming, but they do eventually come and there’s no catch!

The previous link for this deal has been dead for a little while now, so I’m glad to see this come back again so that my subscription shouldn’t lapse.

I typically alternate the subscription name between myself, my wife, and my son. I’ve been getting my daily WSJ fix for years now this way
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Join the 12,500+ people who follow @DansDeals on twitter and you’ll get a tweet when a deal is posted on DansDeals.com!
You can even set up your mobile device to receive text messages (and choose which hours of the night not to bother you). After setting up your device be sure to opt into mobile notifications from DansDeals (it’s in the drop-down menu next to the blue “Following” button), so that you will never again be kicking yourself for missing a crazy deal!

Free Gevalia K-Cups Linky

Just like Gevalia via the link above and select “In a Keurig® K-Cup® Brewer” to get free K–Cups shipped to you.

HT: SPGDUDE, via DDF

Get A Free Get 50GB Box.com Account For Life

Valid for new accounts only.

-Send a file – even entire folders – just by emailing a link! Get that contract to your client before leaving the meeting, not after.
-Turn any folder into an online workspace and edit projects, assign and manage tasks, and more.
-With Box’s robust mobile apps,view important content on the go from any device.

HT: ShmuliT, via DDF

AC / USB Power Adapter Linky

Rebate Instructions Linky

Although the rebate says it is for $9.99 the fine print says that the rebate won’t exceed the purchase price.  So while you may not make $4 on this, free is still pretty good!

HT: Zeeeeks, via DDF

Update: While this works perfectly for me still, an employee at the firm just sent me this:
“Misparchinam.com was not supposed to go live today and this information was leaked prematurely. However, we will be live in 24 hours. Sorry for the inconvenience.”
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www.misparchinam.com is now offering a free Israeli landline phone number that you can forward to your US phone.

I just set one up to forward to my Google Voice/OBi landline phone.

With an Israeli number forwarding to your US phone number you can have relatives in Israel call your Israeli number to reach you in the US (or anywhere else you are in the world via Google Voice) as a free local landline call.

HT: BrooklynCPA, via DDF

Free 2 Liter Of Pepsi Next

-Coupons will be sent to the first one million valid registrations who request the coupon on or before 11:59pm EST on February 4, 2013.
-Offer valid for US consumers only.
-Requests will only be honored for registrants who are 13 years or older.
-Coupon expires March 31, 2013.

Pepsi Next is included on the Star K kosher beverage list.

HT: yitzyul, via DDF

Coupon Linky (Exp: 02/06)

HT: Galitzyaner, via DDF

Today Only-Free Anniversary Blend Coffee Or Tea At Arizona And California Coffee Bean And Tea Leaf Locations

No coupon is required, just walk on in!

I confirmed with stores in AZ, CA, and NV that they are participating.  I called east coast stores in FL and NY and they are not participating.

-Not valid in Ralphs, Hawaii, and in airport locations.
-Valid only on January 30, 2013.
-Offer applies to one 16 oz Anniversary Blend coffee or one 16 oz Anniversary Blend tea only.
-Limit one per person, per visit.

HT: wierdal832, via DDF

Update: DEAD!
It’s just one of those days…
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Get $5 Amazon Credit With A Facebook Share

-Login to your Facebook and Amazon account via link above and share your thoughts and a $5 credit will be applied to your account to use for your next purchase.
-Items must say “Ships from and sold by Amazon.com” to qualify for the promo credit usage.
-Credit expires 06/30/13.
-Registration for this filled quickly last time, so don’t delay!

HT: bubbles, via DDF

Update #2: DEAD!

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Update: Just tried this on a few facebook accounts and have already transferred over all of the eGift cards to my regular Starbucks Gold Elite gift card.

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Free $2.60 Starbucks Gift Card Via Facebook

Allow up to an hour to receive your gift card via email. You do not have to share the offer on your wall to get the gift card.

This is marketed as a “free Tall Blonde Roast” but in actuality you will get a $2.60 egift card that can be used on anything in Starbucks.

You can print up the egift card or transfer the funds to your existing Starbucks gift card by logging into your gift card account online.

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Starbucks fan? If you have an Ink Bold, Ink Plus, Ink Cash, or Ink Classic card you can earn 5 Ultimate Rewards points (transferable to several airlines and hotels) per dollar spent by buying Starbucks gift cards at Office Depot, Office Max, or Staples.

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It’s also worth noting some basic Starbucks spending strategies:
-Register your gift card. As long as you use it once you’ll get a free drink coupon every year for use around your birthday.
-Try not to purchase more than 1 item at a time. Starbucks gives elite status perks based on the number of times you use your registered gift card.
-After 5 transactions you get free refills on brewed or iced coffee and tea.
-After 30 transactions you get gold status and you start getting free drinks every 12 transaction. Remember if you are buying 2 drinks to order and pay for them separately to get more transactions in order to get free drinks faster!

HT: Finckmyster, via DDF

Free 1 Year Fitness Magazine Subscription Via Facebook

Instead of opening the link above and commenting on being offended by the non-tznius pictures just don’t open it in the first place 

“2 different UPC codes:”
0-2370002188-5
0-2370001625-6

-The first issue of the subscription will be the May 2013 issue of Fitness magazine.

Amazon Facebook Offer Linky

Amazon will spam your Facebook timeline with your answer, but you can delete it right away should you so desire.

-Promotional credits must be redeemed by 11:59 p.m. PST on January 10, 2013.
-Amazon MP3 music is available to customers located and with billing addresses in the United States
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Jewish music downloads include 8th day, Lipa Schmeltzer, Moshav, Avraham Fried, Matisyahu, Blue Fringe, Benny Friedman, Yossi Green, and hundreds of other albums by Sameach Music.

Free Wall Street Journal 26 Week Subscription Linky

It can take a long time until these free subscriptions start coming, but they do eventually come and there’s no catch!  I’ve been getting my daily WSJ for years now this way

Update: Sold Out!

Logitech Ultimate Ears 100 Noise Cancelling Earbuds Linky

$10 Rebate Instructions Linky

For free shipping select econo shipping.

-Be sure to use the regular site checkout for free shipping.

-If you live in an apartment be sure to enter your entire address on just one line.  Free Econo Shipping is only available to residential addresses and Tiger Direct assumes addresses with multiple lines are business addresses.

HT: rots5, via DDF

Update: A commenter points out you can cancel your current membership and then signup again with the same email address.

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Shoprunner Offer Linky
Use code: runner

You’ll need to use a new email address if you already have an account.
You do not need to enter your credit card info.

Shoprunner provides for free 2nd day shipping and free return shipping to dozens of stores!

HT: arie, via DDF

Update #3, 4:10pm: Dead again!

Update #2: Alive again with code: gen5shp8kg43d9
HT: yid, via DDF
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Update: Dead!

American Apparel Linky

First enter the following code for $5 off $5: CHANUKKAH
Then enter the following code for free shipping: SHIPFREE

Here are some filler items if you need to get up to $5.01

Post a comment of what you buy!

HT: AsherO, via DDF

$10 Offer Linky

Once you get your $10 promo code you can shop at shop.mlb.com

Shipping is free if you have shoprunner.

HT: shiframeir, via DDF

Free Sample Of Kirkland Signature Super Premium Diapers From Costco

Click on “Free Diaper Sample.”  You can choose the size you would like.

HT: SPGDUDE, via DDF

American Apparel Store Locator Linky

To get a free pair of gloves just text the word apparel to 23000 and you will get a coupon via text message for a free pair of gloves if you visit an American Apparel store by 12/10/12.

HT: FoSho, via DDF