Amex Adds Warning Language Against Bonus Abuse
American Express has updated terms in some of its cards, adding language against those who engage in abuse, misuse, or gaming in connection with the welcome bonus offer.
You Can Now Buy Visa Gift Cards On Amazon
The title pretty much says it all. Amazon is now selling Visa gift cards, but even though that sounds pretty exciting, it has limited use for now. The only denominations they have are $50 and $100 and they come with $4.95 and $5.95 activation fees respectively. Those fees are 10% for the $50 VGC and…
New Plastiq Promo, 1.75% Mastercard Fee When Paying $20K+ To A Business
Plastiq launched a new promotion today. Pay a 1.75% Plastiq fee when you make Business Services payments using a Mastercard. This promotion will end on Monday, July 31, 2017 at 11:59 p.m. EDT. For a payment to qualify, customers will need to make sure that: Offer Terms The payment amount is at least $20,000. The recipient is…
Amex Gift Cards Can No Longer Be Liquidated For Free Through Venmo
If you’ve never heard of Venmo, it is a pretty popular digital wallet that lets you send money to other people and even use it for some purchases. To fund your payments you can use your Venmo balance, a bank account, a debit card or a credit card. All of those options are free to…
Citi AT&T Access More 3X TYP Excludes Gift Cards And Rental/Real Estate Payments
Citi has sent out a a notice to Citi AT&T Access More cardholders announcing that there will be changes to the 3X categories. As you might already know, the card earns 3x ThankYou Points on online purchases at retail and travel websites. Here’s what the notice says: The categories eligible to earn 3x ThankYou Points for purchases made…
Apple Pay P2P Will Charge 3% For Credit Cards, Debit Cards Will Be Free
I wrote three days ago about the news that Apple Pay is getting person to person payments soon in iOS11. This was announced on stage at its Worldwide Developer’s Conference and one of the slides also showed that credit and debit cards will be allowed as forms of payment for these transfers. This seemed interesting for…
Apple Pay Adds P2P Payments To iOS11
Apple just announced on stage at its Worldwide Developer’s Conference that Apple Pay is getting person-to-person payments. The feature will come in iOS 11, which was announced on stage, and will be available later this year. The service replicates Venmo, the PayPal-owned payments app, whcih has become enormously popular among a younger crowd to make…