Chase Sapphire First Friday Favorites 3x bonus

Chase Sapphire has been teamed up with OpenTable for some time and now they have a new promotion called the First Friday Favorites.  When you use your Chase Sapphire card at restaurants on the first Friday of the month, Chase will award you 3x points (instead of the regular 2x points) on your dining purchase.  

These first Fridays include: May 3, June 7, July 5, August 2, September 6, October 4, November 1, and December 6,2013 before midnight.

There is no need to register for this program. 

Chase Prepaid Visa gift cards with fees waived for a limited time

I know I am really behind on jumping on this deal.  I first read about Chase Prepaid Visa gift cards with fees waived from the The Points Guy.  I waited a while because I was waiting to hear reports on whether these gift cards could act as true debit PIN cards.  

I wanted to read about other user experience with transferring the money balance to their Bluebird account, or to paying for a Money Order without issue.  I also wanted to make sure that buying these Chase gift cards with my credit card did not charge a “cash advance” for making the purchase.

Feeding your Bluebird with Office Depot Bancorp Bank Vanilla Visa gift cards

As I’ve shared before you can now enable PIN code access with certain Visa and Mastercard gift cards. 

While getting groceries today, I stopped by the local Office Depot to see what kind of gift card I could purchase with my Chase Ink Business card.