November 2, 2026
The Best Shopping Portals and Card-Linked Offers, According to Millions of Data Points with SaveWise Founder Avneesh Kohli
Episode Description
Your favorite shopping portal may not be the best one to always use, and millions of data points can prove it.
My guest is Avneesh Kohli, the founder of SaveWise, a tool I use literally every day to find the best points-earning opportunity for whatever I’m about to buy. Beyond helping with individual purchases, SaveWise has indexed tens of millions of shopping portal rates and card-linked offers across thousands of merchants, which means Avneesh can see patterns in this world that no individual shopper ever could. And some of what he’s found challenges things the points community has long taken as true.
Avneesh and I get into which shopping portals the data says deliver the most value, some of which will surprise you, and the single best day of the week to shop online if you want the highest rates. We dig into what the numbers reveal about card-linked offers, including which issuers quietly offer the best deals and where the real value is hiding. And because we’re heading into the biggest points-earning season of the year, he shares what the data says about shopping smart around Black Friday and Cyber Monday. If you use shopping portals and card-linked offers, even casually, this is the episode that will make you better at it.
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What You’ll Learn from this Episode
- Why your own shopping experience is a poor guide to which portals and offers earn the most
- Which shopping portal the data crowns as the best overall, and why a cashback portal beats many points portals
- The single best day of the week to shop online for higher portal rates
- Why most airline shopping portals aren’t worth using, with one surprising exception
- What the data reveals about Amex and Chase card-linked offers, and which cards quietly hold the best deals
- How to shop smarter around Black Friday and Cyber Monday, including why waiting can pay off
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