- Secret Service: Theft Rings Turn to Fuze Cards by Krebs On Security. Looks like all in one cards finally found a niche use…
- Amazon Eyes Sears Stores For Whole Foods Expansion by PYMNTS. Hopefully Whole Foods expansion means cheaper prices.
- One Year of Experimenting and Earning with the Citi AT&T Access More – What Earns 3x TYPs as Online Retail & Travel? by Middle Age Miles. This is the type of content I like to see.
- Oceanpayment Merchants Will Be Able to Accept Discover Global Network Cards.
Deals expiring at the end of today or starting today (view the full deal calendar here):
- American Express Mercedes-Benz Platinum Card No Longer Available For Sign Up [PC’d To New Card On 01/11/2019]
- UPS MyChoice: Change Delivery Preference To UPS Access Point & Get Up To $10 In Target Giftcards
- Preferred Hotels: Vote For Your Favorite Hotel & Get 5,000 Points For Free
Deals expiring at end of tomorrow:
Thanks for the Fuze post… I actually considered buying one!! Whew… could have been quite the disaster for me. I’ve already been through a natural one… don’t need a man-made one!!! John 3:16
So would you still earn your card rewards by using it through the Fuze Card?
Am I the only one who thought all those Fuze/Coin cards were for thieves? I mean the only reason I ever even bothered to get a coin card myself was to put VGC on and avoid the “no gift card” money order nonsense. Didn’t even work for that.
Sorry the Sears/Amazon story is bogus, I work for AMZN……..just 1 location someone looked. Boy everyone ran with this story w/o fact checking, this is what is wrong today in the electronic information era.
Does anyone use the Fuze card? I’m looking to just carry 1 credit card and 1 debit card in my phone card holding case.
Another comment points out that the downside of the Fuze card is it can’t be used for EMV chip payments – it has the physical chip, but can’t make it output the right codes for the different cards it holds. As long as that isn’t a problem, it seems like a cool technology.
Also there were issues with the initial rollout that allowed anyone with physical access to the card (think waiter) to rip all the CC info from the card via bluetooth by pretending to be the Fuze app basically. I think they might have fixed this by now though.
Good morning, Doc. Many thanks for including our article in your Recap today! We really appreciate the link, and we also very much appreciate the compliment. I hope you and your readers are able to benefit from it. ~Craig at Middle Age Miles
Card thieves are the worst people in the world because they are the ones that make MSing harder for the honest people like us.
Finally, fuze could prevent all of this by requiring the user to input a zip code for the card they are trying to use and that the zip code much match the one registered on your fuze account, which can only be changed once every 90 days.
Doing this would completely kill the card for thieves but if you wanted to use such a card for MSing it would still work.
“make MSing harder for the honest people like us”…haha, I had a good laugh. I don’t think MSing makes you honest. It’s not illegal and I have no problem with it but come on, enjoy it while you can 🙂
MSing is honest because we are not stealing anything. We are taking advantage of a loophole that allows us to spend money without spending money for airline miles, which is perfectly legal.
I think of MSing like the equivelant of a business using very complex strategies to move their cash to offshore bank accounts. Doing so is often perfectly legal and well within the tax code but frowned upon for obvoius reasons, just like MSing.
A thief can be honest too if he don’t pretend to be the owner of the card! He just takes advantage of other people’s money to spend money without spending his own money for stuff other than airline miles. :p
Sorry couldn’t resist. I’m a fellow MSer also grieving its demise.
I think its a little different as usually the T&C of the card agreement say you aren’t allowed to do it but they don’t really stop you. But in reality businesses do sketchy questionable sh!t too, they just don’t get called out as much.
Unfortunately, once the new card has a reputation for criminals using it, it will likely just be banned by big retailers altogether. They’d rather just eliminate the problem altogether.
An easy solution would be to only allow EMV or contactless payments. Fuze has the hardware for both but is not integrated with the issuers to allow it.
You can’t currently buy the EMV version of Fuze, only the magnetic strip version. Perhaps early backers have access? Dunno.