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  • 6 Steps to Negotiating Your Credit Card Annual Fee

    Whether you’re churning credit cards, or just want to keep one of your everyday credit cards, it never hurts to make a 2 minute call or chat. It can end up saving you $95 or even $695.

  • Recon Line, 6 Secrets to get your CC application approved after being denied

    Was your credit card application denied? Did you get the horrifying  “You will receive a letter explaining our decision in 7-10 business days” message? Well, don’t be upset.  It has happened to all of us at some point in our life. Even if you have excellent credit, banks can deny your application based on their internal scoring…

  • P2P Lending, Is It Worth It?

    Websites that bypass the banks by matching up lenders with borrowers have been taking off for a while now, some claiming to offer returns of 10%-15%. There are a few big players in the game but new companies seem to be launching almost weekly. So should you be signing up – and is it safe? How does it…

  • REDcard Problems, Some Locations Refuse CC Loads

    Relax, no need to panic just yet. But there’s some isolated reports that some Target locations have refused credit card loads for the REDcard. There’s multiple instances mentioned in Dans Forums for a Target in Brooklyn where CSR have said that they no longer accept credit cards. I also received information from a friend in…

  • Complete Guide to Bluebird, Serve, Softserve and Target Redcard

    Another Guide to Bluebird, Serve, Softserve and Target Redcard. Lots of useful info if you’re not familiar with these cards.

  • United Debacle, DOT is Reviewing Consumer Complaints

    Apparently there’s been enough filed complaints already for the DOT to take notice. They issued an official statement yesterday regarding the United Airlines Mistaken Fare in their website. “The Department of Transportation is aware of an issue involving mistaken fares on United Airlines’ Danish-facing website.  The Department’s Office of Aviation Enforcement and Proceedings has begun looking into…

  • United Airlines Debacle, Should You Complain to the DOT?

    By now you all know about the amazing short lived deals that United brought us with their third party errors. Now we learned that United will not honor those first class tickets sold at insanely low prices and surely there’s a lot of anger from those lucky ones who were able to grab such deals.…

  • No more AmEx cards at Costco U.S. stores next year

    Warehouse club retailer Costco Wholesale Corp, will stop accepting AmEx credit cards at U.S. stores from next year. They already did this in Canada so this is not a complete shock. AmEx stock fell as much 7 percent on Thursday, its steepest fall since August 2011. It’s almost impossible that Costco will get rid of credit cards altogether, so…

  • Beginner’s Guide to meeting Minimum Spending Requirements

    For many of you, this is nothing new. I’m sure you have used some, or most probably all of these methods to meet minimum spending requirements, but it’s still worth listing them for some of you who might be new to this or need some reminders. Always pay with a Credit Card This is the most…

  • Capital One Cards, are they worth it?

    I have long had a Capital One bank account, even before I picked up this hobby, and also a Capital One 360 account (got a few small bonuses from that one). But I only got my first Capital One card a few months ago. The problem with Capital One cards is that they do a…

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