I talk about hotel booking websites here quite often and that’s because I book a lot of hotel rooms. I don’t believe in loyalty, because hotels sure haven’t showed loyalty to me with their continued devaluations and... Read More →
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Priceline To Purchase Rocketmiles For ~$20 Million
According to the WSJ, Priceline has plans to purchase hotel booking website Rocketmiles for approximately $20 million. Rocketmiles is a little different than other hotel booking websites in that you earn airline miles for every booking... Read More →
Samsung Purchases LoopPay To Enter The Mobile Payment Market
Samsung has purchased LoopPay to enter the mobile payment market and compete with Apple Pay, Google Wallet and Softcard among others. LoopPay is supposed to work with around 90% of retailers already, this is about ten times more than... Read More →
Discover it Vs Discover it Miles – Which Card Makes More Sense?
In case you didn’t know, Discover has launched a new credit card called the Discover it Miles card. The main feature of this card is the fact that it earns 3x miles on all purchases for the first year. I was just having a... Read More →
Discover Launches New Discover it Miles Card – 3x Miles For First Year
Discover has launched a new credit card called the Discover it Miles card. Here is a quick look at the card benefits: 1.5x miles on all purchases Double miles for the first year (3x miles on all purchases) An annual credit up to $30 for... Read More →
Merchants Can Encourage Using non-AmEx Cards, Court Rules
Bloomberg reports that American Express lost it’s case of barring businesses from encouraging the use of Visa or Mastercard as a means of lowering fees, in the latest of a string of blows to the credit card company, after losing... Read More →
No Fee on Evolve Money Right Now
Disclaimer: Do this at your own risk, there are plenty of things that could go wrong. For example: the funding could be reversed, you could be charged the 3% fee or they could charge a cash advance fee. Only you can decide if that risk... Read More →
Evolve Money To Start Charging 3% Fees For All Prepaid Debit & Gift Cards
Evolve Money is a service that allows you to pay bills online. They recently started accepted credit cards but they charge a 3% fee. It looks like this fee will now be charged on debit & gift cards as well: Evolve Money is dedicated... Read More →
Should You Sign Up For American Express Costco & jetBlue Credit Cards Before The Relationship Ends?
We’ve talked about the fact that American Express will be ending it’s relationships with Costco (official) & jetBlue (unofficial) before. Yesterday we looked at what will happen to existing American Express Costco &... Read More →
Can I Get The Sign Up Bonus On The American Express Platinum & Mercedes Benz Platinum Cards?
Update: It looks like you can get the bonus on both of these cards. Lantean as able to recently. Let us know your personal experiences in the comments. Hi, I’m wondering if it’s possible to get the sign up bonus on the... Read More →
250 FlexPoint Bonus, Podcast, Gift Card Churning, Cost Of A Weekend Trip & Apple Pay Stats
Gift Card Churning Reader Questions And Answers by Chasing The Points. Another good post in his gift card churning series, if you have any questions I’d recommend asking him in the comments section over there. Targeted: Earn 250... Read More →
BBVA To Launch New American Express NBA Credit Card
This card has now launched, you can view more information on the new card here. BBVA has long had a partnership with the NBA for their deposit account, they have just recently announced plans to launch a new American Express NBA credit... Read More →
SavingStar Credit Card Review
Today is Wednesday, which means it’s time for another Weird Wednesday post. In this series we’re looking at unknown or little known credit cards. You can see other posts in this series here. What Is SavingStar? SavingStar... Read More →
Complete List Of American Express Membership Rewards Transfer Bonuses
Periodically American Express offers a transfer bonus when you convert your Membership Rewards points to one of their 21 travel transfer partners. [table id=16 /] When deciding if these bonuses are a good deal or not, it’s useful... Read More →
Rocketmiles 5,000 Southwest Points First Booking Bonus
The Offer Receive 5,000 Southwest points for your first booking with Rocketmiles (hotel booking website). In addition to any miles the booking would normally receive (1,000 point minimum) The Fine Print Only available to those who... Read More →