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Old Jan 17, 2011 | 7:45 pm
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mjfink
 
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It's one of those "spend 25K in 3 months; get more SPG points" promos on the Amex card. I might hit it with my normal expenses, but I don't want to worry about it; so I need a fallback position if I can't get the spend "normally" and through orders from the Mint.

Is there any "normal" Visa/MC/Amex gift card that I can buy with no (or almost no) transaction fees that will work like this? I only pick HD because I know I can spend it in the future, but, even better would be Visa/MC/Amex card (and, best of all would be one that I can take in for cash!).

Please, feel free to point me in another direction!

Originally Posted by wesmanz
It's no problem to buy them, the only problem is if you can have the money sitting idle and pay the CC off.

Why is it that you need to make a certain spend?

--wes
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