🥞 The ultimate triple stack

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☀️ Good morning and welcome back to Daily Drop!

It’s Friday, but there’s still so much good stuff happening in the points and miles world, so let’s cover a bunch of it today:

• 💪 Epic triple points stacking

• 🚗 Get easy cash back on transit and rideshare

• 😨 Highly sensitive info on public WiFi…

• 💳 Current Transfer Bonuses

💪 Epic triple points stacking

As you know, we have a cool Facebook group called the Daily Drop Lounge.

It’s where travelers hang out to learn from each other, ask questions, and even share points and miles wins.

One win in particular caught my eye… this reader just completed an elusive triple stack:

If you aren’t sure what they’re referring to, it’s the annual StubHub credits offered on this premium card.

Anyway, this reader did more than just redeem the credit… They used the Rakuten shopping portal to get an extra 6% cash back at StubHub.

Basically, that’s getting free cash back (or points) on money you’re already getting reimbursed by the credit card… pretty cool.

But the best part, in my opinion, was using the recent Paze promo (read more about that in this newsletter) to get an extra 10x UR points per dollar.

I don’t know exactly how much this person spent, but let’s say they spent exactly $150.

They’d get:

• That $150 reimbursed

• $9 back from Rakuten

• 1,500 UR points from the Paze promo

In other words, spending $0 out of pocket and walking away with some coffee money and transferable points. ☕️

I love this.

Here’s why:

I always forget about this StubHub credit… I never use it, and I value it as basically nothing. Case in point… my unused StubHub credit:

But reading this win made me realize I should just do exactly what this person did.

As long as I spend exactly $150, I’m not actually spending anything… and the best part is that this credit resets in July. So I can do it once now and again next month to snag 3,000 UR points total.

And that does add some value for this credit. But it gets even better… We can add an additional stack onto this. 😏

If you’ve never used Rakuten before, you can use our referral link and get $50 cash back (or 5,000 MR points) when you spend $50.

If you add this into the equation, it suddenly becomes even more meaningful.

Anyway, this is why y’all need to just go hang out in the Daily Drop Lounge. Just do it.

Thanks, reader. 🫡

🚗 Get easy cash back on transit and rideshare

Merchant offers are among the best ways to earn easy cash or points back on high-annual-fee cards.

And the other day, I saw a pretty interesting one pop up on my Marriott co-branded cards (this one and this one).

Basically, you can earn $6 back on $15 of spending on transit and rideshare purchases, which includes the following:

• Rideshare apps (like Uber and Lyft)

• Parking

• Tolls

• Train tickets

• Ferry tickets

• Public transportation

That covers a lot of pretty common spending categories, so this feels like an easy one.

Plus, the offer lets you do it up to three times for a total of $18 back.

I’ve seen other people get a different version of the offer, but with a rebate of 1,000 Marriott points after spending $15.

Personally, I value those 1,000 points more than $6, so that’s the one I’d hope for.

This is yet another reason you should pay attention to merchant offers like these.

In my experience, offers from this bank’s suite of cards usually offer the best value, especially for travel spending.

Make sure you activate any offers first to lock them in before making any purchases.

That’s all for this week, amigos. Take care, and I’ll see you on Monday from the beautiful Seychelles. 🇸🇨

Have a good weekend ❤️

4.1753° N, 73.5091° E

With contributions by Sam Anthony and Katie Begnoche.