There’s a certain level of absurdest humor to the following story, and I’m posting it publicly in case anyone else is in the same boat. Also, I’m fairly certain I’m going to eventually need to use this post as evidence at some point that I really do want to pay Google the money I owe […]
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How to Get Your Money Back When Google Wallet Shuts You Down
If you’re like me you couldn’t resist playing with Google Wallet. If you’re also like me, your Google Wallet account was shut down. Unfortunately there are no clearly defined limits to using GW. Say what you will about the measely $1k a month Amazon allowed us to churn, at least we knew where the line […]
Push it to the Limit–Get [up to] 3 Extra Annual Fee Free Months
Today’s post is best expereienced while listening to this song. Press play, and then start reading. 😉 — A quick post today, but one which could save you a some money nonetheless. Here at Milenomics we focus on avoiding annual fees whenever possible. This means either calling in and pressing for a fee waiver, downgrading to a fee […]
Beware the Float Rule: Giving Staples a $2000, Interest Free, 45 Day Loan
Update 7/9: We’re now into day 40+ of this, as no one called me back yesterday from Staples. I will continue to update the post title and body. Update 7/14: After a call over the weekend they finally intiated a refund, and my cash is back as of today. Final Tally: 45 days and 5 attempts to contact Staples […]
Airline 24 Hour Cancellation Policies, Tips and Tricks
I’m sure a lot of you know what I’m going to share with you today–but for those who don’t today’s post is going to be very important. We’ll be talking about the different airline’s 24 hour cancellation/hold policies. I haven’t written about it before, so for completeness I wanted to put together this post. The DOT Rule […]