American Express announced that they would be making a number of changes to the Premier Rewards Gold card, the only negative was an increased annual fee of $20 (bringing it to $195) but they also added more U.S restaurants as a 2x... Read More →
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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 →
Marriott Devaluations, Personal Scent Credit Cards, Expedia Too Big To Care,
New Online Gift Card Vendors With Cash Back Opportunities by Chasing The Points. More useful gift card churning news. Marriott Rewards Whacks Members Again With Big Increase in Reward Prices by View From The Wing. I think Marriott got a... Read More →
Interesting Discover Tidbits: Q&A, EMV Chip, Baggage Benefit & More
Questions & Answers I asked a number of questions to the Discover media team (I also asked for your questions on Twitter. If you’re not already follow me there so you can join in next time). Question: Discover it Miles earns... 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 →
U.S Bank Cash+ Card Now Available For Online Applications
The U.S Bank Cash+ card allows you to choose two 5% cash back categories every quarter (and one 2% category), there is a spending limit of $2,000 per quarter but that still equals $100 in cash back per quarter if you can max out that... Read More →
US Bank Sucks, IHG PointBreaks, Making Money With Raise, $25 Virgin America Discount & United Cruises
US Bank business card employee spend does not count towards spend requirements by Frequent Miler. Sometimes I don’t understand big businesses, US Bank has probably spend $400+ acquiring this customer and then they have thrown that... Read More →
Changes To The American Express Premier Rewards Gold Card
American Express are making a number of changes to their Premier Rewards Gold Card, people have been expecting these changes every since the AmEx EveryDay cards were released. These new changes will come into effect on June 1st, 2015... 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 $23, an 8% savings. Unfortunately, there’s now a limit of 1 per buyer. You can also go through Befrugal or Topcashback for an additional 1.5%... Read More →
Free Museums With Bank of America & “Museums On Us” Program
Yesterday Bank of America celebrated it’s 18th year of running the Museums on Us program, I thought it would be a good chance to have a look at this program and what it offers. Basically the Museums On Us program gives access to... Read More →
Humerous REDcard Song – It’s all about the REDcard
Here’s a cute song about REDcard mentioned on Reddit and Flyertalk. Given the amount of time many of us spend dealing with the REDcard, you’ll probably find it humorous. If only we could get him to mention the AmEx Prepaid... Read More →
Green$ense Platinum MasterCard Review: 25¢ Per Transaction
This is another post in our series “Weird Wednesdays” where every Wednesday we look at a slightly unusual or unknown credit card. You can view more posts in this series by clicking here. Today we’re going to be looking... Read More →
Wingz Review – Airport Car Service & $10 Free Credit For Signing Up
Wingz is a riding sharing (similar to Uber) door to door (home to airport or airport to home) car service. They currently only operate out of these select airports: Austin-Bergstom International Airport (AUS) Dallas Love Field (DAL)... Read More →
[YMMV] FlexPerks Spending Bonuses For March/April
The Offer U.S Bank FlexPerks cardholders should have received a targeted spending bonus for March & April. To see if you have one go to: and log in. Here are some of the offers people have reported receiving: Spend $850 or more and... 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 →