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Best From The Rest Round Up – Week 35, 2016
Here’s a round up of posts, news, deals and other stuff that caught my attention in the last few days. I either don’t have the expertise, or was too lazy to write about them. Or maybe they’re just fun reads and not really travel/credit cards/deals related. I’ll add more posts to it during the day if I…
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Amazon Fights Counterfeiters By Charging $1,000-$1,500 To Ungate Brands
Amazon.com is taking serious steps to protect big brands and its own name after a recent surge in counterfeiting on the site. These steps however are expected to hurt legit sellers as well. Amazon is restricting brands that have seen these surges in counterfeit products and you might need to pay $1,000 or even $1,500…
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Amex Ends Prorated Refunds For Annual Fees
American Express was one of the card issuers that would give you a prorated refund on your annual fee. This might not make a big difference on some of the cheaper annual fees, but it sure it’s something to consider when it comes to hefty annual fees such as the $450 for the Platinum cards.…
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Best From The Rest Round Up – Week 34, 2016
Here’s a round up of posts, news, deals and other stuff that caught my attention in the last few days. I either don’t have the expertise, or was too lazy to write about them. Or maybe they’re just fun reads and not really travel/credit cards/deals related. I’ll add more posts to it during the day if I…
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Ebay Gift Card Can No Longer Be Used To Purchase Third Party Gift Cards
Ebay has changed the terms on the use of their gift cards and it’s not good news at all. It’s been a while that they stopped gift card rolling, buying eBay gift cards with eBay cards. And now you can’t use eBay gift cards to purchase any type of gift card at all. Here’s the…
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Best From The Rest Round Up – Week 33, 2016
Here’s a round up of posts, news, deals and other stuff that caught my attention in the last few days. I either don’t have the expertise, or was too lazy to write about them. Or maybe they’re just fun reads and not really travel/credit cards/deals related. I’ll add more posts to it during the day if I…
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Credit-Card Use Increasing Among People with Low Scores
If you’ve noticed that it’s getting easier to get a credit card a and you’ve been receiving higher credit limits, you’re not dreaming. The credit card is coming back, even among people with the lowest credit scores. Although things might have gotten a bit tougher for churners. In the second quarter, total household debt increased…
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How Does Danny the Deal Guru Make Money… A Year Later?
I’m writing this a year after this previous post when I first talked about how this blog makes money. I’m still a relatively newcomer to the blogosphere of this hobby, but I’ve been a hobbyist for years before deciding to share some of my experience. In this post I’ll describe again how my humble free blog makes money…
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Get TSA Precheck At The DMV, A Concert, Or Tax Office
TSA has been aggressively promoting its Precheck product by getting airlines, hotel chains, credit card companies, loyalty programs and corporations, such as Microsoft, to spread the word and, in some cases, reimburse Precheck enrollment fees for employees or members. Amex Gold and Platinum, Amex U.S. Bank FlexPerks and some other cards provide card holders reimbursements for Precheck (or…
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Best From The Rest Round Up – Week 31, 2016
I haven’t done this in a few weeks, but here’s a round up of posts, news, deals and other stuff that caught my attention in the last few days. I either don’t have the expertise, or was too lazy to write about them. Or maybe they’re just fun reads and not really travel/credit cards/deals related. I’ll…
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Credit Cards Are Charging Less Fees
There’s a new trend in the credit cards world, less fees. While competing for customers, credit card issuers are now eliminating fees. In a 2016 Card Fee Survey conducted by CreditCards.com, a sample of 100 widely held general-purpose cards are charging 593 fees. That’s down from 613 in their 2015 fee survey. The biggest change is in foreign transaction fees. Only 61 cards out of…
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Amazon UR Redemptions Devalued Starting 9/1
If you were using Chase Ultimate Rewards to shop on Amazon (which you shouldn’t) then you should watch out for this devaluation that is coming September 1st. Right now you can redeem UR points for 1 cents each on Amazon, getting $1 worth for 100 UR. After 9/1 you will need 125 UR to get $1 worth…
