Samsung announced today their own NFC payment system which will come pre-installed in phones called ‘Samsung Pay’. We reported on Samsung’s acquisition of LoopPay, a system that mimics the swiping of a credit card in... Read More →
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Debit Cards on Evolve – A List
Evolve started charging a 3% fee for the usage of some debit card issued by smaller banks. Here’s a list of the reports we’ve seen on which cards do or don’t incur the fee. Buxx Fee Chime Fee Gift cards Fee GoBank... Read More →
$25 eBay Gift Card for $23
The Offer Direct Link Paypal Digital Gifts on eBay is selling $25 eBay e-gift cards for $23, an 8% savings. Unfortunately, there’s now a limit of 1 per buyer. You can also go through Befrugal or Topcashback for an additional 1.5%... Read More →
Humerous REDcard Song – It’s all about the REDcard
Here’s a cute song about REDcard mentioned on Reddit and Flyertalk. Given the amount of time many of us spend dealing with the REDcard, you’ll probably find it humorous. If only we could get him to mention the AmEx Prepaid... Read More →
Changes to Evolve – It Still Could Make Sense
The Changes Evolve just sent out an email of two new changes, coming on the heels of the announcement that they’ll now charge a 3% fee on gift cards. Here are the three changes, all positive: We can now pay bills up to $2,999... Read More →
American Express Raises Interest Rates on More Than 1 Million Customers
Bloomberg reports that American Express will be raising interest rates for some of its users for the first time in 5 years. [This will only affect those who carry a balance on their AmEx card, something we don’t usually recommend... Read More →
Chase to Close 300 Branches, Shift to Mobile Banking
JPMorgan Chase plans to close 300 branches, around 5% of all its branches, in a nod to the increasing usage of the internet for processing ordinary banking transactions. The move was announced today at an investor’s conference... Read More →
Changes for Portal Cashback on Raise.com
Raise Vacillates One great way to buy and sell electronic gift cards online is the Raise.com martketplace. (We wrote more about the selling part here.) A popular way of increasing the value of using Raise is to start the transaction at... Read More →
Google Buys into Softcard, Wallet App to Come Preinstalled on Android
Google announced in a press release today that they forged a deal with Softcard enabling the Google Wallet app to come pre-installed in many Android devices. Google will also be acquiring parts of Softcard technology and patents as part... Read More →
