News and notes from around the interweb:
- What happens when you’re caught using Lyft or Uber in a state where it’s illegal?
- Fee-free Visa gift cards today only, though may not have ability to set a PIN code and use as a debit card.
- Rocketmiles is offering 5000 United miles for first-time users in addition to the regular miles earned for hotel bookings of 3 nights or more if you reserve by August 31 and stay by the end of the year.
- The closest hotel to LAX becoming a Hyatt. It used to be the Radisson and is getting a full makeover.
- A new plane design for a regional jet with enough bin space for every passenger to fit a roll-aboard above their seat
- Suing the TSA over increased fees
- Debit card override hack
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From what I have read those gift cards are not pinnable. Probably worth mentioning before people jump in and can not liquidate them easily.
Re: TSA lawsuit – The Dallas News blog uses a poor choice of words in that the two airline groups are not suing the TSA, rather they are seeking review of the App. Ct. of the new Rule as adopted in the Federal Register.
The Joint Petition and parallel social media campaign are discussed in my travelblawg post here: http://travelblawg.boardingarea.com/airline-groups-ask-court-review-tsa-fee-increase/
Thanks for that comment. I was trying to figure out why none of the other sites posted this deal.
Just ordered $3250 worth of gift cards from giftcardlab. We’ll see on the PIN. If you cannot (though I thought it was a law that required it…??), then I’ll just pay off bills with Evolve.
Do you know what bank issues these cards? Some Debit cards do not work on Evolve either.
Nope. We’ll see. If it doesn’t work, all I did was prepay spending I will do anyway, which I don’t mind since I’m meeting spending requirement deadline I needed by Wed anyway. I did free shipping to make them completely free of course, so won’t have them until end of next week probably. Will report back if I don’t find solid evidence before hand.
@StevenTravel Sunrise Bank
So do they work on Evolve? I ordered them just for that reason, though can always liquidate on AP if need be.
Someone on flyertalk reporting issues using Sunrise Bank gift cards on Evolve in May. I’m checking with him to see if he ever got it resolved.
Does anyone know if Citi MC purchases are treated as cash advances for giftcardlab.com?
I tried a Sunrise bank on Evolve this month to pay the mortgage and Evolve said it was not a debit card.
Canceled my order on the phone, if someone hear differently about Evolve before the night is up let me know.
Did the same but via email. I tried to cancel only one order though. I made two. One for meeting spending on AA 100k card and another for spending requirement I had more time on, but both orders got cancelled. When I looked closer, the order numbers are the same (wth?). Oh well. I guess it wasn’t meant to be. I’ll just use amazon tomorrow morning then.
Where did you read that a PIN cannot be set? I thought that’s not possible.
@rrgg that was posted to the site i linked to
What about using AP for liquidating?
I’m almost positive that the Jungle would be fine for liquidating.
FWIW, I’ve used cards issued by Sunrise before to load BB. While the cards were not obtained from this vendor, I don’t expect problems. As best I recall, use the last 4 digits.
Just don’t jump in over your head in case in doesn’t work out.
A Hyatt actually at LAX. Yea!
IIRC, that hotel used to be a Hyatt 30+ years ago. So, what goes around, comes around.