Freedom Unlimited The news broke a few days ago that Chase is set to add another cashback credit card to their portfolio. Called the Freedom Unlimited, the card will offer 1.5% back on all purchases. A few questions lingered: 1) Will... Read More →
Category - Credit Cards
Sparing your Credit Cards from Shut Down
There’s been some attention, recently, about credit card shutdowns due to an uptick in account closures from Citi and Barclays. Let’s take a look at credit card shutdowns from the major banks in this post. Please add... Read More →
Chase Freedom Unlimited Coming Soon
Reposting this because it disappeared from the front page and people weren’t able to view it for some weird reason. Angelina Travels is reporting that Chase will launch a new credit card called the Chase Freedom Unlimited sometime... Read More →
American Express to Finalize Costco Portfolio Sale in June
American Express announced today that it finalized an agreement to sell its Costco credit card portfolio to Citibank. It is expected to close in June 2016, at which time all eligible Costco American Express Card cobranded accounts will... Read More →
Should You Apply For The Targeted $300 American Express SimplyCash Plus Offer?
The Offer I’ve received a lot of e-mails from readers asking about a new targeted business card offer they received. It’s for the American Express SimplyCash Plus card and the offer is as follows: $300 cash back after $300... Read More →
Comenity Saturday Night Live Credit Card Being Discontinued
Comenity Bank has sent their Saturday Night Live credit cardholdes a letter stating that their credit card accounts will be discontinued on March 31st, 2016. They will have until September 30th, 2016 to use any rewards they’ve... Read More →
Bank of America Alaska Airlines Credit Card Will Increase Sign Up Bonus To 30,000 Miles In May
According to this SEC filing, Alaska Airlines plans to increase the sign up bonus on their co-branded credit card in May of 2016. The best current bonus is 25,000 miles upon approval and $100 statement credit after $1,000 in spend (the... Read More →
Discover: Additional Discounted Gift Card Options for Cashback Redemption
The Offer Discover sent out an email with a few new options to redeem your credit card cashback for a value of better than 1¢ per point. $25 Chili’s gift card for just 20 cashback dollars $25 Maggiano’s gift card for just 20... Read More →
Amex Adds Once-per-Lifetime Limit to Business Cards Signup Bonus
The sad news just broke that Amex has added their once-per-lifetime limitation to the terms of their business credit cards. Previously, only the personal Amex cards were limited (as of the past few years) to getting the bonus just once... Read More →
Cost Plus World Market & Synchrony Ending Credit Card Partnership
Synchrony Bank and Cost Plus World Market have agreed to terminate their Cost Plus World Market credit card program. Some key pieces of information for current cardholders: You can continue to make purchases until February 27, 2016... Read More →
Chase Recon Closed For The Next Three Days Due To System Upgrades
Yesterday I a received a tweet from @FreeTravelGuys (website) letting me know that when they called Chase reconsideration they were receiving an automated message saying that the both the Chase personal & business reconsideration... Read More →
Capital One Rebrands Their Credit Tracker Tool To ‘CreditWise’
In early April, 2014 Capital One launched their Credit Tracker Tool. They have just sent out an e-mail to cardholders that this tool is now called CreditWise. Below are the differences between the two tools: CreditWise provides users... Read More →
Backdoor Signup Link for Citi AT&T Access More Credit Card
There was mention a few days back about the AT&T Access More card from Citi not being available for signup at the time. The card is not found alongside the other cards on the Citi website, and all the regular links error out. The... Read More →
Improved Rewards Program For Walmart Credit Card & Store Cards
Existing cardholders of the Walmart credit or store cards will have been notified on their last statement that a rewards program will be added to this card in April. Here is what the new rewards program will look like: 3% rewards on... Read More →
Synchrony Launches New Citgo Credit Card – 5-10¢ Off Per Gallon
Synchrony has just launched the new Citgo credit card, previously this card was issued by Citibank’s Retail Services division. The new card has a slightly improved rewards program as follows: 10¢ in fuel credits per gallon... Read More →

