I think I have set some cashback records, what is your approx running total up to date?

[Anonymous]

Long time reader just joined the forum.

So far since 2005 I have earned about $100K cash back + 800,000 AA miles from credit cards, cash back portals and sign up bonuses.

I cannot believe the numbers....

[ryox03]

that's alot of spend. You could have funded an IRA nicely with all of that.

[kdm31091]

Yeah...do something with that money. That is definitely a huge spend

[noobody]

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@Anonymous wrote:

Long time reader just joined the forum.

So far since 2005 I have earned about $100K cash back + 800,000 AA miles from credit cards, cash back portals and sign up bonuses.

I cannot believe the numbers....

I think we are more insterest in knowing how did you do it?

how much did you spend on each card?

how many new account with sign up bonus been opened?

[Anonymous]

That's cumulative total. The money is long gone as it's paid out over time.

But it did help out a lot...

Funny how it started... trying to get a better credit score, now that I got credit out of the way it's just to finance my hobbies and maybe a slight addiction to the fun of buying things for cheap and better yet making money buying things.

Basically always made $ in whatever I am interested in thanks to the credit cards and other cash back opportunities.

I wish I started back when the Federal reserve was selling dollar coins for face value and free ship...  I would have been all over it and go all out....  there's this guy who accumulated 4,000,000 AA miles with the federal reserve coin. (Mod Cut)

[ryox03]

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@Anonymous wrote:

That's cumulative total. The money is long gone as it's paid out over time.

But it did help out a lot...

Funny how it started... trying to get a better credit score, now that I got credit out of the way it's just to finance my hobbies and maybe a slight addiction to the fun of buying things for cheap and better yet making money buying things.

Basically always made $ in whatever I am interested in thanks to the credit cards and other cash back opportunities.

I wish I started back when the Federal reserve was selling dollar coins for face value and free ship...  I would have been all over it and go all out....  there's this guy who accumulated 4,000,000 AA miles with the federal reserve coin. (Mod Cut)

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Brilliant!

[Anonymous]

Well...  I have always manage to find loop holes or extra and such in any system.

Got my credit score up early..

With my hobbies and the thousands of things I've bought and sold to finance it, I started to figure out how to make more on the things I like to do.

Most of my credit cards have some sort of bonus. I've got a 12x6x5 box full of old closed credit cards. now have 20+ credit cards.

Just from top of my head... I have and had a lot of credit cards... some closed some converted, others kept depending on cost and value.

9 x Barclay NFL card - had $400 back on $1000, you can apply for as many as you like with multiple browser trick when it was first available.

Barclay Arrival, Amex Promos (for example, the smart and final buy $50 get $25 statement credit with twitter link trick, home depot amex promo, newegg amex promo), I have 12 Amex Cards.

Citi multi browser trick - Citibank AA Visa, Citibank AA Master, Citibank AA Executive, Citibank AA Business, Barclay US Airways

Slate, Freedom, Chase Amazon, Discover IT, eBay Mastercard, Amex SPG, Chase Ink, Chase Sapphire, Citibank Dividend, Major Discover card Promos, Chase bank account $500, Grandfathered Paypal account that paid 1.5% on debit card purchases, always make sure to use the correct credit cards for each type of purchase, bing cashback 35% days with a loop hole, (Mod Cut)

Also double everything above, I play with my wife's credit as well...

Those are just some examples but have a lot more....

(Mod Cut).. 

[Anonymous]

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@Anonymous wrote:

Well...  I have always manage to find loop holes or extra and such in any system.

Got my credit score up early..

With my hobbies and the thousands of things I've bought and sold to finance it, I started to figure out how to make more on the things I like to do.

Most of my credit cards have some sort of bonus. I've got a 12x6x5 box full of old closed credit cards. now have 20+ credit cards.

Just from top of my head... I have and had a lot of credit cards... some closed some converted, others kept depending on cost and value.

9 x Barclay NFL card - had $400 back on $1000, you can apply for as many as you like with multiple browser trick when it was first available.

Barclay Arrival, Amex Promos (for example, the smart and final buy $50 get $25 statement credit with twitter link trick, home depot amex promo, newegg amex promo), I have 12 Amex Cards.

Citi multi browser trick - Citibank AA Visa, Citibank AA Master, Citibank AA Executive, Citibank AA Business, Barclay US Airways

Slate, Freedom, Chase Amazon, Discover IT, eBay Mastercard, Amex SPG, Chase Ink, Chase Sapphire, Citibank Dividend, Major Discover card Promos, Chase bank account $500, Grandfathered Paypal account that paid 1.5% on debit card purchases, always make sure to use the correct credit cards for each type of purchase, bing cashback 35% days with a loop hole, (Mod Cut)

Also double everything above, I play with my wife's credit as well...

Those are just some examples but have a lot more....

(Mod Cut).. 

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$100K in 10 years is nothing like a record for the this type of activity!  A relatively low $50K per month MS spend with the right cards nets about $50K per year.   But it sounds like you tried harder and did more varied things.

[Anonymous]

I'm at $1150 for the year, not counting the AMEX offers, which is probably in the $150 range. Plus some free checked bags with American. My goal was $1200 at the start of the year so I'm very happy with these results. Need to find a way to get on the level of the folks on this board.

[Anonymous]

Teach me your ways!