Recap: GovPayNow Leak, USAA Cards Plastiq Issue & More

 

  • Walmart Relaunches Jet.com with 3-Hour Deliveries by Danny Deal Guru. Surprised Walmart hasn’t done more with Jet yet.
  • Bank of America Alaska Business card asking for proof of business by Miles Per Day. Read the comments, looks like they will let you get away without providing them with anything if you’re a sole prop.
  • How I Got Chase to Pay for My Underwear by The Military Frequent Flyer. I really hate how hard card issuers make using these benefits. It could be such an easy win for them from a consumer satisfaction point of view if they made the process less soul destroying. As TMFF notes, I do think part of the strategy is to just get people to give up trying to claim a benefit.

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sdsearch
sdsearch (@guest_645042)
September 20, 2018 15:53

You have a typo in your headline (and thus URL), with Plastiq misspelled as Platisq.

CM
CM (@guest_644983)
September 20, 2018 13:16

You completely forgot the SimplyCash Plus referrals that’s expiring 19th — $250 x2 promotion, but is still available as of mid-day 20th.

Card still earns 5% at OD/OM/Staples, BTW; I got it since the reports of it no longer earning, and haven’t had any issues with the 5% always posting a few months after the purchases.

Yoni
Yoni (@guest_644662)
September 19, 2018 19:46

Sadly it seems we have entered an era that Customer Service degrades in proportion to the size of the market share the company controls.

Dealing with a similar time/soul sucking CS experience with my Note 9 pre-order for the AKG-N60 -the same NC headphones offered to Lufthansa BC passengers for use.

The free AKGs were the main impetus for upgrading so soon after upgrading to the S9+ as well as the $250 trade in for an old Galaxy S5 that was a backup we kept on hand as an emergency backup or transition phone -but was just collecting dust.

Seems that issues with warranties, promotions, or Samsung insurance, or Samsung Upgrade/Samsung trade-in program seem to all have the same nightmare theme and litany of complaints in attempting to resolve an issue and rarely is it ever a simple or quick process and BTW when they say “72 business hours”it is quite literally 9 business days rather than telling you it will be almost 2 weeks.

sloebrake
sloebrake (@guest_644490)
September 19, 2018 13:09

My August Plastiq charges for Limitless used merchant code Quasi-Cash, without fees, and paid 2.5%. My last charge also posted on August 29th, after the dates that he states he didn’t earn points.

David
David (@guest_645593)
September 21, 2018 11:40

Good to know. I have a bunch of payments scheduled out until 2020 and hope the rewards still pay.

Yet Another Redditor
Yet Another Redditor (@guest_644441)
September 19, 2018 10:44
Mimi
Mimi (@guest_644424)
September 19, 2018 10:13

I’m pretty sure the amount it takes to secure data is way more expensive than penalties/fines they have to pay (if any) so why should companies care? Now if there’s accompanying jail time for company bigwigs, maybe that’ll get their attention and do better?

Debit
Debit (@guest_644427)
September 19, 2018 10:19

Fines + lobbying + contributions towards elections of congressmen to swing legislation is still less than money spent on protecting data of the citizens of this country.

Citizens of this country are tribal and irrational and keep voting against their own best interests.

Atul
Atul (@guest_644423)
September 19, 2018 10:11

I followed the underwear Link. There is another ping back (other than doc) https://moneymondays.net/category/money/credit-cards/.

I see that website content seem nearly duplicate of DOC. Almost every thing recent post is there.

Paul
Paul (@guest_644433)
September 19, 2018 10:32

They’re straight up copy & paste your posts DOC. Time to dmca them.

millionairenextdoor
millionairenextdoor (@guest_644438)
September 19, 2018 10:38

 William Charles ^^^ people are stealing your content.

Yoni
Yoni (@guest_644725)
September 19, 2018 21:49

 William Charles

If only you could tap into that EU link tax income stream – -hmm
Doctorofcredit.eu and get ya’lls due haha

Mike
Mike (@guest_644443)
September 19, 2018 10:49

That sucks when another site rips DoC. :/ DoC is the definitive resource, though. I use boardingarea.com somewhat for extra flight-specific stuff, but DoC hits nearly every single deal.

Curmudgeon
Curmudgeon (@guest_644488)
September 19, 2018 13:01

There’s a little blurb at the bottom saying “this originally posted on DoC”, but yeah, that’s a straight up cut/paste job.

Kevin
Kevin (@guest_644393)
September 19, 2018 08:35

USAA has been on a downward slope for a long time. I joined when I entered basic training and recently left their banking side due to their lack of customer service.

Debit
Debit (@guest_644390)
September 19, 2018 08:14

“I say that the penalties for companies that have sensitive data that is breached needs to be tougher.”

Well what do you think is the problem? The party of the common man or the party of the rich people?

Mike
Mike (@guest_644395)
September 19, 2018 08:50

It must be hard going through life as a perpetual victim.

Debit
Debit (@guest_644412)
September 19, 2018 09:46

Ad hominem.

Frank
Frank (@guest_644397)
September 19, 2018 08:54

Lol weird how the “rich people” win elections if they are out numbered by the “common man”

J T
J T (@guest_644684)
September 19, 2018 20:30

You cannot be that naive.

Yoni
Yoni (@guest_644718)
September 19, 2018 21:42

Hmm I think the problem is the politicians in both parties they are pretty much the same and just pander to different demographics and belief systems or indoctrination systems..

What’s humorous with the current party fighting is the disingenuous ad hominem attack, in which they are trying to cast an alleged attacker as silver-spooned simply to inject negative emotion in financially disadvantaged voters as if it had any bearing on the facts or veracity of the allegation.

Another misdirect is when the “elitist” card is being made by another elitist. “her claim of being attacked by students “from an elitist boys’ school” while herself attending “elitist Holton-arms girls prep school” is disengenous and her childhood home in Potomac, Md the median home price is almost 4x the US median home price and most of the homes in her neighborhood are on the market north of $1.25M.

Then the other party tries to make it about bad blood and an unfavorable ruling in a foreclose case in a Blasey vs Kavungugh.

Both parties play dirty politics, a disproportionate number of politicians have law degrees and/or practiced law. As well it seems that a disproportionate number of politicians could be clinically diagnosed as sociopaths.

So as long as politicians make sure that we have on demand access to Internet and Expresso’s (bread and circuses) they can avoid the citizenship rioting. (Our problems are first world problems).

I have a poster of an honest politician hanging in my office and at the top it reads
“I WANT TO BELIEVE”