Manufactured spending: Buying groups
I didn't see any post about this topic so I wanted to share my experience. I started doing MS (Manufactured spending) through buying groups beginning of the year as I got multiple cards with welcome bonus approved at the same time and didn't have enough real expenses to meet all minimum spends. Buying groups are companies asking you to buy things from them (they use discounted retail price to make a margin selling for wholesale/export). They are telling you what to buy, where, which price you are purchasing/selling it and you can directly ship the items directly to them so you don't have to store somewhere in the US. You can find items they are buying same price you are purchasing, sometimes with extra profit but in many cases slight loss that you compensate with your points/cashback/welcome bonus I'm currently using three of them for more than $20K, BMFR (the fastest), Buying group and maxoutdeals (that was under FBI investigation). I also used gcqc.io to resell giftcard (same theory but not to with Amex) The easiest suppliers are amazon, woot, homedepot as many of the other ones are blocking the buying group delivery address so you have to slightly modify the address or ship it to a personal address and forward to them (they can provide shipping label) but that's more complicate remotely. @Ain - Cloud Resident can I share my referral links?