Originally Posted by
Astrophsx
What the heck are you talking about?? These people have mentioned nothing about getting shut down by their credit card. "Cardinal Fang" and "Spanish Inquisition" are these your code words for American Express?
There are people who do not know how to stay under the radar like Marathon Man making 8 amazon payment accounts and then there are people who know how to stay under the radar. One will find with most deals if you stay under the radar... overall you will get more out of a deal then going overboard from the beginning and getting banned.
AZ payments has been going on for awhile now and I think it has a fighting chance of continuing if:
1) People limit discussion on the boards.
2) Stay under the radar.. If you don't know how to stay under the radar PM someone and ask.
3) Don't get greedy. If it's working don't try and go beyond the limits.
4) If you get banned don't call Amazon. I don't think there has been one person who I've talked to or who has posted on here that was able to get a reversal from Amazon after getting shut down. If you get shut down move on! I wouldn't waste my time begging or asking why I got banned. Move on to Serve, Venmo, etc...
I hate to quote a blogger, but there are people like MommyPoints who don't use these payment services because of what has happened to people like AlohaDaveKennedy. If you have the financial info to get you out of a financial review great! But if you don't, just remember that getting 50k from Amazon payments is not nearly as easy as getting 50k from a credit card sign up.
Some people will say thankfully you've come around to learning how to negotiate the programs. Others will say that your pimping of BigCrumbs and the AX GC thing helped push the Mint gig to the front pages of WSJ and the likes. Either way, Im glad you finally figured it to be quiet about the good deals. "They" do watch and "they" do learn and "they" shutdown any deals that are beneficial to their cause.