Last fall, an odd couple – American Express and Walmart – introduced the Bluebird card, a debit card with almost no fees and with the member benefits of an American Express card.
Cardholders can add money to the card via direct deposit, transfers, cash at Walmart or check. The card can be used anywhere that accepts [...]
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Bluebird card adds enhancements
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Amex Blue Cash Everyday and Preferred Card Signup Bonuses
This is just a quick note to let you know that the Blue Cash Everyday® Card from American Express and Blue Cash Preferred Card® from American Express are currently offering signup bonuses.
For the Blue Cash Everyday card, you can earn 100 Reward Dollars after making $1,000 in purchases within the first three months of [...]
Modified on May 8th, 2013 - One Comment
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Be on the Lookout for Credit Card Fees
Consider yourself warned… Starting tomorrow (Sunday, January 27th) merchants are free to start applying a surcharge for credit card purchases.
We’ve talked in the past about credit card surcharges, and how the major card networks didn’t allow them. Well, that all changed this past summer when Visa and MasterCard agreed to allow merchants to pass the [...]
Modified on February 4th, 2013 - 8 Comments
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Convert to the Discover it Card
In case you haven’t heard, Discover is spotlighting their newest card, known as Discover it. Notably, they have re-worked the rewards structure associated with this card.
While they’re still offering 5% cash back on rotating categories, they’ve dropped the spending tiers for non-bonus purchases, meaning that you’ll get a straight 1% cash back on all “other” [...]
Modified on January 18th, 2013 - Leave a Comment
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Discover Card Reward Categories for Winter 2013
It’s that time of year again… Time to sign up for the latest batch of reward categories associated with your Discover credit card (assuming that you have one).
Recall that Discover, like many other reward credit card issuers, has adopted rotating reward categories that require quarterly re-enrollment. Thus, assuming that you enroll, you’ll get 5% cash [...]
Modified on March 1st, 2013 - 2 Comments
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Credit Card Fraud: It Can Happen to You
This wasn’t supposed to happen to me.
You see, as a financial writer, when I cover a story about credit card fraud, it’s supposed to be in the third person — about what happened to some unfortunate victim, or about how laws help protect consumers, etc. It’s not supposed to be in the first person. I’m [...]
Modified on January 12th, 2013 - 15 Comments
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British Airways Bonus Offer
In the past year or two, I’ve written about a nice promo from the British Airways Visa Signature Card from Chase. Well, it seems that promo is back (again).
Here’s how it works:
Start by applying for the card. Once approved, you’ll receive 50k bonus Avios after you use the card to spend $1k in purchases within [...]
Modified on March 7th, 2013 - 4 Comments
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Chase Ends Bonus Reward Auto-Enrollment Experiment
Last winter Chase began experimenting with auto-enrollment for their rotating reward categories. This was only offered to select “valued Chase Freedom cardmember” so you may not have been able to participate, but…
Fear not. Now I can’t participate either. Why? Because they’ve discontinued the auto-enrollment option. According to a letter that we just received:
Your participation in [...]
Modified on January 7th, 2013 - 3 Comments
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Small Business Saturday 2012
With Thanksgiving just around the corner, it’s time to remind you that this coming Saturday is none other than Small Business Saturday.
This is a promotion started back in 2010 by American Express to encourage people to shop at small businesses, and to reward small businesses for accepting American Express credit cards.
As in years past, American [...]
Modified on November 25th, 2012 - One Comment
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Odd Uses for a Credit Card
While perusing the web the other day, I ran across an amusing story about a drunk guy at a Vikings game that was eating ice cream with a credit card. Someone nearby captured the moment in a photo and shortly thereafter it went viral.
Here’s the pic:
It’s kind of hard to see, but he is indeed [...]
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The new Discover it card is out to change the way people think about credit cards. No annual fee. No overlimit fee. No foreign transaction fee & no pay-by-phone fee. No late fee on your first late payment. And Discover won't increase your APR for paying late.*
Consumer friendly credit card with a great low rate of 7.25% and save on interest charges. No balance transfer fees and no annual fee.
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The new Discover it card is out to change the way people think about credit cards. No annual fee. No overlimit fee. No foreign transaction fee & no pay-by-phone fee. No late fee on your first late payment. And Discover won't increase your APR for paying late.*
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