Sad news for a once-promising program - Bumped has announced that it's closing down with immediate effect. The History Of Bumped Bumped began life as an in-store card-linked offer program. You linked payment cards and earned 0.5% back as stock at retailers you selected in various categories. While 0.5% wasn't a huge return, I loved the concept as it was set-and-forget - once … [Read more...]

Update 7/19/22: Bumped has sent out emails to members today advising that Loyalty Rewards will be ending and they'll be closing down the app. Bumped will still exist, but it'll be a browser-based service on desktop and mobile, with a browser extension available. Basically, they've decided to become yet another shopping portal - for a second time - which doesn't bode well for … [Read more...]

On October 29, 2020, the team at Bumped changed how their app worked fairly significantly. In the past, you selected one retailer/restaurant in a number of different categories at which you could earn stock when purchasing from them. You linked your debit and credit cards in the app, so Bumped tracked whenever you bought anything and automatically awarded stock. That meant you … [Read more...]

Well, this has the potential to suck depending on how it's implemented. The Bumped app announced today that they're pivoting from their current business model of being a card-linked program for (mostly) in-store transactions to becoming what appears to be a glorified shopping portal that offers fractional shares of stock rather than cashback. From the email they just sent … [Read more...]