Category - Credit Cards

When rumors were circulating about changes to American Express, blogger Monkey Miles found a trademark that had been applied for by American Express for Tier One. People had hopes that this would be a new card from American Express... Read More →

Introduction In this post we look at datapoints to see what credit bureau (or consumer reporting agency) U.S. Bank will pull for a credit card application based on the state you live in. We only looked at data points from 2014 onwards... Read More →

Fifth Third has released two new credit cards, the Truly Simple card and the TRIO credit card. In this quick review we will be taking a look at the TRIO Credit Card. The Basics Earn a sign up bonus of 10,000 Real Life Rewards bonus... Read More →

[Update 6/12/20: See updated information on how to get the $550 American Express Platinum Morgan Stanley annual fee credit in this post.] [Update 1/9/20: Morgan Stanley has changed the requirements to keep the $45 monthly fee waived... Read More →

The Offer Direct Link Macy’s American Express cardholders can earn up to 2000 Plenti points during October, another 2000 in November, and another 2000 in December, for a total of 6000 points. Make 3 purchases in October with your... Read More →

Introduction Find out what credit bureau (formally known as consumer reporting agencies) Discover pulls for credit card applications. For the purposes of this post, we only looked at data from 2014 onwards. We are also only looking at... Read More →

Wyndham recently announced some enhancements to their co-branded credit card with Barclaycard, as well as an increase in the annual fee and devaluation of the earning rates on the cards. Here is a summary of the changes: Annual fee... Read More →

Targeted Offer #1 Direct Link (Amex login required). This has now been extended until January 27th, 2017. Apply for the Business Gold Rewards card from American Express and get 75,000 Membership Rewards points after you spend $5,000... Read More →

Earlier today we posted about mostly positive changes that were being made to the Wyndham Barclaycard. This information was provided by their media team, usually when we receive this information we get the full landing page with the... Read More →

Update: Wyndham have also changed the earning rates on both cards. Previously they earned 2x points on all other purchases, now they only earn 2x points on gas, utility and grocery store purchases. Wyndham have announced three changes... Read More →

On August 11, Citi broke out with a new rule limiting us to one signup bonus per product line per 24 months. The next day, we heard from our Citi media contact that the new rules wouldn’t go into effect until August 28th. This... Read More →