[See UPDATE below] We reported yesterday that Citizen’s Bank changed their credit card lineup. They removed the interesting ones and replaced them with uninteresting ones, see Citizen’s Bank & Charter One Eliminate Their 5%... Read More →
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Evolve – Some Gift Cards Still Fee-Free
US Bank Gift Cards We know that Evolve started charging a 3% fee for processing payment for debit cards issued by some smaller banks. Technically, a gift card can also be fee-free so long as it doesn’t fall under that... Read More →
Signup Bonus Increase on Amex Blue Cash to $200/$125
The standard signup bonus on the Amex Blue Cash Preferred is $150 after spending $1000 within the first 3 months. And $100 for the Blue Cash Everyday after spending $1000 within the first 3 months. There’s now an increased signup... Read More →
Free Shipping with No Minimum at Staples with Shoprunner [Available Now]
Shoprunner is a service which offers free shipping and free return shipping at many partner merchants, along with a few other benefits. It’s a paid subscription service, similar to Amazon Prime, but all regular personal and small... Read More →
Costco Strikes Deal with Visa, Citi
Costco announced today that they struck a new partnership with Visa and Citi. Costco will accept only Visa-branded cards starting April 1, 2016, and Citi will offer a Citi/Costco partner credit card, similar to the AmEx/Costco product... Read More →
The Noose is Tightening on 5% Everywhere
This is another post in our Manufactured Monday series. We try to offer some insights into manufactured spend each Monday. You can view all posts in this series by clicking here. We have a few options of credit cards with strong 5%... Read More →
Softcard To Shut Down Soon – What That Means for Us
We reported that Google bought into Softcard. At the time, no official date was given for when Softcard will cease to exist. Softcard is now saying that the day is near when Softcard will close down, even for existing users. Closure is... Read More →
Samsung Announces ‘Samsung Pay’, Competes with Google, Apple
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 →
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 →