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 →
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Pay Your Rent With A Credit Card (Or Debit) – Complete List Of Options
For most people their rent will be by far their biggest expense every month. Because of this paying it with a credit card (0r debit card) is a very attractive option, it can be an easy way to meet minimum spend requirements or even just... Read More →
US Airways Barclaycard Annual Fee Coming Up? Call Retention.
If you have an annual fee that is due (or has already posted to your account) you should always call the retention department to see if they will offer you anything to keep the card. In fact, it’s worth calling a lot more often as... Read More →
$10 Amazon.com Credit When You Change Your 1-Click Payment Settings To A Citi Credit Card
This offer is back and now valid until May 19th, 2015. The Offer Receive $10 in Amazon.com credit when you change your 1 click payment setting to a Citi credit card. Here’s how: [Update: another option people have reported success... Read More →
Kurt Cobain Credit Card, DOT Ruling On United Fares, Manufactured Spending & More
My friends over at Saverocity have launched two new things of note: Their award booking service. I’ve never used an award booking service myself, because I like to work things out but those who are time poor might find this a good... Read More →
WilliamPaid To Close Its Doors & Better Options For Paying Your Rent With A Credit Or Debit Card
Reader David let me know that WilliamPaid will be closing it’s doors on 11:59PM CST, March 5, 2015. WilliamPaid is a service that allows it’s customers to pay their rent with a credit card or debit card(they also had cash... 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 →
Translating Doctor of Credit Into Other Languages – Get Paid To Help
Update: We’ve definitely got enough Chinese translators so I am closing those applications. You should receive an e-mail from me shortly. If you want to translate Spanish, get in touch! One thing that I’ve always found... Read More →
TradeKing Brokerage Account: Receive $1,000 in Free Trades
The Offer TradeKing is offering a deposit bonus in the form of $1,000 of free trade commissions for customers who open a new TradeKing brokerage account and fund it with $5,000 or more within the qualifying period. What’s the cost of a... 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 →
Why You Shouldn’t Use Flint For Manufactured Spending
The Flint App is a mobile phone application that allows you to accept credit card payments without a card reader. It used to be possible to put through $3,750 in spend with Flint in the first 30 days with no fees. This has steadily got... Read More →
Evolve Money To Add Fees From Tomorrow, Car Hire Tips, Visa & Mastercard To Offer New Security Features & Rocketmile Promotions
Visa, MasterCard to Roll Out New Cybersecurity Features by WSJ. Now if only the payment networks & card issuers hadn’t dragged their feet on adopting EMV technology for years maybe we wouldn’t be in this situation in the... Read More →
Santander To Relax New Account Screening Process With Less Reliance On ChexSystems
Santander have announced that they will change how they screen new accounts. Currently Santander uses ChexSystems to check an applicants history with deposit accounts, any and all negative items are recorded (e.g bounced checks... Read More →
Barclaycard US Airways 50% Bonus Miles On All Miles Earned (10k Miles Limit)
The Offer No direct offer link, see below for how to get this offer. Offer via Miles4More. (If you go to when you’re logged in it might work) Receive a bonus of 50% on all miles earned on your US Airways or American Airlines... Read More →
Qantas Added As A Citi ThankYou Transfer Partner
Citibank has added yet another airline as a Citi ThankYou Point transfer partner, this time the Australian airline Qantas. The transfer rate is a straight 1:1 transfer (as it is with all of their travel partners, apart from Hilton which... Read More →