Introducing to TBB readers: Moocho
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I absolutely despise how bloggers go all cheery to sell stuff, especially credit cards. So let me make a full disclosure up front that this loyalty rewards app I will tell you about does have a referral code that I am going to promote just once here. Okay? Before you all go ballistic let me just tell you about my experience in the past two days and how I have saved $20 and counting…
Introducing Moocho…
Moocho appears to be a new company targeting mostly young students in campuses. It is a VERY slick app and is free. You register an account. You get $5 when you sign up and if you sign up with my code 130457 I get $5 too, thank you! After your first purchase at a participating merchant that is. I can also send you the referral code via email or text. Now the bad news. They are only in nine ten campuses so there I lost almost all of you, I am such an awful closer lol.
They aim to have at least 50 merchants in each campus. They are growing fast! So here is how I discovered them:
There is a new grocery store in Ann Arbor named Lucky’s Market. It is located at 1919 South Industrial Highway at the corner of Stadium Boulevard and just a block east of the Big House UofM football stadium. It is the former Kroger’s and it is across that wonderful 24 hour CVS store (oh the good times there). I went to check it out and I really like the store. Very fresh produce, great big sandwiches at just $4.99, sushi station, huge collection of wines and all kinds of stuff. Great prices, excellent service along with great soups (discovered them today wow!). They are having a series of sales to get people to check them out. Large pepperoni pizza all weekend at $5.99 and they use local ingredients, this is not your crappy Little Caesar’s pizza ( I was told, I miss pizza).
Anyways, I am walking around and, you know, as I was wondering about a loyalty card I see a sign to save $10. So I stopped by and was told all about Moocho. I downloaded the app, registered an account and each participating merchant has its own deal. You get $10 off your first order at Lucky’s Market, hey that’s almost two sandwiches for free! You also get an ongoing 10% cash back if your purchase is over $50. So I loaded up on greek fat free yogurt, wine and hummus!
For every $5 you spend you earn one mooch. So then you redeem for rewards. Here are the rewards for Ann Arbor. I have 20 mooches to redeem already and I could redeem for an unlimited stir fry at BD Mongolian Grill or 2.5 supreme nachos at Get Some Burritos or 3 picollo gelatos (looks like ice cream thing) or a free pita at Pita Pit or a bunch of other rewards. Heck, this could easily cover some lunch next week. My point is the rewards are real!
And so are the deals! Right now I can go get a free piccolo gelato (that ice cream thing again) at Iorio’s Gelateria, free chicken flauta at Get Some Burritos, a free pita at Pita Pit, and a free double cheeseburger with a drink purchase at Hunter House Hamburgers. My points is that these are FREEeeeeeeeeee (except the last one that requires a drink purchase). And there are more but not as worth it as the ones I list here. There is some great dopamine effect happening when you score something truly for free….you know what I mean!
The interface of the app is incredible! So easy to use and it is all done by the location you are. You do register your credit card so no swipes, you tell the cashier you want to pay with Moocho, they ask your name and BOOM! That’s it and a receipt is in your mail instantly. Kinda reminds me how fast Uber receipts land in your inbox, only faster! All deals/rewards/cashback, all tracked in your smart phone. I am VERY impressed how slick the whole thing is. And yes you can add more than one credit card and make the one for more points the primary one before you pay! And yes of course you can First Friday with your Chase Sapphire card!<——–exclamation for a more dramatic effect of this sentece 🙂
Another merchant I plan to use this is at the Mezes Greek Grill. Here are the participating merchants in Ann Arbor. I am sure it will grow in the future, at least until VC money keeps funding them lol.
Here is the FAQ.
The company brags that it is “so secure it’s like Fort Knox on your phone“. And they also provide a 100% satisfaction guarantee for every transaction. “There are no hidden fees or minimums. You are only charged for what you actually buy when you buy it. Gift amounts are credited to the student’s balance immediately. Every Moocho transaction is guaranteed to be authorized and accurate, or we’ll refund the full amount.” Good to have I guess.
Anyways, I am a big fan and have only been using it for just two days. My kids like the sandwiches and soups there too. Sure beats Whole Food prices lol. Besides, this place has plenty of samples to, well, sample haha.
If Lucky’s Market was not participating I probably would not go for it.
Of course the key is there is a participating merchant you usually shop with anyway. In addition, you live in one of the above markets. Or you travel to one of these places. Might as well grab some stuff for free!
Holy cow, was it a day to pump the Prestige card or what? I even got an email from Frugal Travel Guy!
Smart readers get it from one place, page #3 wink. And no I am not getting it. I canceled Mrs TBB’s Amex Premier Rewards card today, so she only has the lesser Everyday card. Hey we keep all the Membership Rewards points with no annual fee, we dig it.
Thats’ all for now. The end is near. End of tax season that is LOL.
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First, here’s hoping they get to UCLA
Wait, you are not second????
Second! I am on fire this week.
Hey, this was Spencer F’s spot!
Look closely at this app…
Why on earth did you go to Lucky’s? Its at the complete other end of town?
Come on, it’s not that far. I think Hiller’s will see less of me going forward!
George you get funnier with every post. It was a big day yesterday in the blog world and while the ftg.com blog and others were “Selling, Selling, Selling” as you suggest, readers were “Buying Buying Buying” in droves. Great new product and good news for the hobby to see Citi put out a great offer. Sorry as the outlier you won’t be participating, but you’ve got your own thing going on here I see:
“Moocho, Moocho, Moocho”
I hope you crush them buddy 🙂 But at least you can say its original content and you probably won’t be competing with the Titans as you call them.
Moocho, Moocho, Moocho
@Rick, it’s really sad to see how you’ve changed. I know this is falling on deaf ears, but at one time, you were much more concerned about “helping helping helping” and being a good steward… and now all you seem to care about is finding unwitting buyers to make the sale. Back in the old days, you would have been spreading the news of the in-branch offer months ago (because as you know, it’s not a new product – only new to FTG affiliate channels)
Thanks for the comment Andrew. I appreciate your concern. As a “has been” in the game I was not aware of the “in branch offer” so thanks for that. In addition many areas in the nation don’t have “in branch” opportunities.
We don’t have Citi or Chase branches here in the boonies.
And my desire to help help help is still my motivating force. I’ve been trying my best to back off George from criticizing others in our hobby without much success. Everyday he feels the need to criticize others. Kind of makes you wonder doesn’t it why he is the only one that can’t be grateful for all the opportunities this hobby has given all of us?
When George quits slamming others over miles and points, I’ll quit giving it back to him. Thanks again for your comment
@ Andrew C: Thanks for taking the time to comment. Yep, deaf ears. It is all about personal responsibility…to FTG wallets that is! Do you expect them to take time out of their busy schedule pumping non stop/pushing product out the door to, cough, research better offers to truly educate their readers? Dude, that hurts conversions! And that is what it is all about, isn’t it obvious? I agree with you it is really sad…
Let’s cut to the chase.
Sell.Sell.Sell.
The sad thing is the hypocrisy Pumpsalloverus displays on a daily basis here. He has the gall to complain about blogs advertising credit cards, which are the basis of the success of this hobby, while he in turn does the same exact thing. And to top it off his pumping his links, he now tweets 8 times in one day and writes about a topic Moocho because he gets a $5 referral? #pimpocrite
The hilarity of watching “Pumps” is that we have well over 100 blogs in the points and miles space, some obviously commercial (got that yet George?), some with large readerships and some with small audiences, and they all just go about their thing, as do their readers picking and choosing all by themselves who and what they want to read.
And then we have “Pumps” who is the only one going negative on others, and its not just the bloggers, but all in the hobby as well. (Hint: readers don’ t like to be called morons)
For some reason thinks he is the savior of the space while at the same time displaying the same behavior that he whines about daily.
I’m grateful for the hobby. I don’t like the negativity and divisiveness displayed by some but I guess it is just part of the size of the group and, as such, George has a following of the “angries”.
Its just such a waste of time. Commercial blogs are going to pump. People are going to apply for credit cards and George is going to whine. Kind of like birth death and taxes.
You are such a waste of time angrily trolling a blog so much when you could easily continue treating your readers as morons keeping them in the dark by pumping the shit out of them every day. Your blog posts are beyond pathetic to even bother and you have the audacity to whine about TBB’s pumping, how messed up is that!!!!
Respectfully,
A former reader who is no longer angry to see how far Frugal Travel Guy has fallen. You could have been the voice of reason for this hobby, we now only have TBB for that. Plus we laugh a lot reading his.posts! Now go sell some whatever the banks told you to sell.
TBB: That Prestige app click was mine yesterday, no Citi branch near me, thanks. I like the shorter posts, fyi.
So sorry you feel FTG has fallen in your eyes. Surprising, as readership is up 40% since last year? They must be doing something right huh?
But I guess in retrospect it is not surprising. The gang here is definitely anti commercial blog and that’s why I love coming here. Watching the futile attempt to change something that never will change and the lengths to which they will whine.
Stay angry my friends. And George, congrats on that Prestige click 😉
TBB is right,.you just don’t get it, what a waste of time! Your trolling here is beyond any common sense!
Thank you to all who signed up with moocho, wow!
Enjoy the sandwiches, they are awesome!
Ignore the trolls who keep on trolling and pumping whatever card is on sale. Amazing what happens when pumpers get paid suddenly when similar non-affiliate offers have been out there huh?
Take a stand, if you get it you can do it at Page #3 #hint To the ones who got it already, thank you!
And now off to lunch with client.
Anyone signed up for that Inspirato AMEX deal. They sent me the free $25 Amex gift card yesterday. Swimming in free stuff. Dopamine. And keeping integrity intact. Love it.
Danny Colling the movie with Al Pacino is great! Well, Al Pacino is awesome as usual. I can see myself as an aging blog star LOL. But not as a sugar daddy, too cheap for that woohoo.
I’m more intrigued by the fact that you load with a credit card and you can get a refund of your balance at any time. Do you happen to know how they refund your balance? Does the refund go to the “student” who has the account (which would make sense since they’re advertising this as sending money to a hungry student), or does it go back to the sender of the money?
I like the way you think 😉
Rick-
What commission do those new Citi cards pay to folks who “convert” an app?
Come on, man; throw some sunshine on that.
Why on earth would I pass that info on to the angry mob here? You want me to incite a riot???
Rick-
It’s like the old joke: I just wanted to know the price.
Everyone please show some respect for Mr. Ingersol and all the other crazy old senile old farts running around unattended and unmediated. RESPECT YOUR ELDERS
seems like Lucky has a funny boyfriend
https://instagram.com/p/1K0b6_o85T/