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Woe is me

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How I cut the cost of my gas
« on: May 12, 2022, 08:42:19 am »
Gas prices are hurting everyone and I'm not here to blame anyone. I like to use my Visa to pay for
gas at the pump cause I always fill up. With the card you don't have to go in for your change.
My card is set to pay off every month so I don't pay interest but I still get my Scorecard Rewards
points. On my statements it shows how points I have saved up from purchases with the card. You can
login toe Scorecards page and use the points to buy stuff, all kinds of stuff. Well I don't need
anymore stuff so the points are growing.
 Now when I stick my credit card in the pump it asks a few questions on the screen. One of them is,
do you want to use some of your points to get $0.50 off a gallon for up to 20 gallons. Hell yeah I'll
use them for gas. $0.50 x 20 gallons is $10.00 off of a fill up for me. Plus the gas you just bought
on your Visa, that put some points back in your account.  Unless you saving your points to buy some
crap from their catalog, you might as well use them where you need it. Those points are just setting
there and some people didn't know they had these points, didn't know what that message on the pump
was for.

Visa, when in doubt, whip it out.
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komet163b

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Re: How I cut the cost of my gas
« Reply #1 on: May 12, 2022, 11:39:22 am »
  Points are cool.  I discovered they were accumulating a few years
ago and cashed them in for over $400.  $90 in the till for now, good
thru 2026.  I'll have to pay closer attention next time I buy gas.
I too would go for the 'points for cheaper gas' offer.

Happily steaming my Weeden 14,
Wayne
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Adirondack Jack

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Re: How I cut the cost of my gas
« Reply #2 on: May 16, 2022, 10:43:58 am »
Thank you for an unexpected, but much needed reminder that there was an up side to losing enough vision to drive.  I don’t miss $90 dates with 87 octane every few days, and damned sure don’t miss chasing stations that participate in whatever savings scam or other they’re perpetrating.  My “car” these days is a Labrador, and his chow is about $1.50 a day. And btw, cash still works when the internet goes out. Don’t leave home without it.
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Woe is me

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Re: How I cut the cost of my gas
« Reply #3 on: May 16, 2022, 08:43:51 pm »
Oh yeah, one more thing about reward points. They only last for five years. Lets say you start earning
points in 2015, oh 2000 points. You earn some more in 2016,2017,2018, and 2019. We'll say 2000 points
each of those years. That's 10,000 points at the end of 2019 if you don't use any. Then at the end of
2020 you think you'd have 12,000 right. Wrong, the points from 2015 dropped off. Now if you start using
your points tomorrow, you're using the oldest points that they'll take from you if you don't use them.
Got it, goooood.
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Adirondack Jack

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Re: How I cut the cost of my gas
« Reply #4 on: May 21, 2022, 08:10:36 am »
Expiring points are an irritant, but that’s an accounting and tax issue.  Without an expiration date, that liability is like a debt owed hanging over their heads forever.  Not cool if it’s a pile of “fill up for a buck” coupons from 1970, and you’re trying to tell the tax man you didn’t get that money in 2022 at bob’s bait and fuel, but you have coupons you’re saying you redeemed for six bucks a gallon fuel.
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