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Costco Teams Up With Citi for Visa Credit Card
We wrote a few weeks ago about the end of the Costco-Amex partnership. We expected Costco to add one of the main credit cards as their new partners and now they have announced that they has reached an agreement with Citi for a new co-branded Visa credit card program, at its U.S. stores starting on…
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Evolve Money Changes
Evolve Money sent out another email explaining their recent changes. There’s no big surprises here. You will get charged 3% fee on all credit cards, gift cards and prepaid debit cards. The single payment limit has been increased to $2,999 when paying with credit or debit cards and now make up to 4 payments by card per month…
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WilliamPaid Shuts Down
WilliamPaid will be shutting down. You can’t create new accounts anymore, and you wouldn’t need to anyway. They will stop processing rent payments at 11:59PM CST, March 5, 2015, even for existing customer. Here’s their notice. Dear WilliamPaid Customers, After 5 years, it is with deep regret that we share with you that WilliamPaid will stop processing…
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AMEX to Raise Interest Rates by 2.5%
American Express credit cards with get a bit more expensive, if you carry a balance. AmEx lost one of its biggest retailer partnerships (No more AmEx cards at Costco U.S. stores next year) and suffered a defeat in an antitrust lawsuit this month. To make up for those losses, it is raising interest rates on a swath of…
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DOT Will NOT Enforce Ticket Bought During that United Mistake Fare
The DoT has announced that it will not be enforcing United tickets bought with Danish Kroner on February 11th. We covered that mistake fare extensively here and this was not something unexpected. DOT decision on Feb. 11 exchange rate error On February 11, 2015, a currency exchange-rate error in 3rd party software supplied to United…
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Evolve Money, 3% Fee Starts Tomorrow
I just received an email from Evolve. We already knew this was happening, as we posted the news last week. But now they have a set date, and today is the last day to use your debit and gift cards without a fee. They also note that there will be increased limits soon. Dear Valued…
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Qantas, Now a Citi ThankYou Rewards Transfer Partner
Citi ThankYou Rewards has added another name to their partner list, Qantas. ThankYou Rewards expanded its transfer options last summer with 9 new partners and now they probably have the most impressive name yet. You can now do 1:1 point transfers from ThankYou Rewards to Qantas Frequent Flyer. I flew with Qantas last year and I was very impressed. They have…
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Visa Discounts website, GC Reselling Opportunities?
Check out this Visa Discounts website. It is similar to American Express sync offers, but works like a portal. They have a lot of participating merchants and they will either apply the discount directly of give you a coupon code. I haven’t had the time to look through all the merchants, but there is some gift card reselling…
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Majority of Americans Unaware of Their Credit Card Rewards
We all know the value of points, miles, and cash back from credit cards and the great return that you get for the time spent. But apparently we are a minority in the United States. Mos Americans have no clue what cards they carry in their pockets and what benefits they provide. Princeton Survey Research interviewed…
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Incompetent Employees/Managers Making Up REDcard Restrictions – Memo Leaked
The REDcard seems to be creating a lot of confusion lately among Target employees. Apparently most of the confusion is coming from incompetent employees and even managers, which is not such a big surprise. There has been a few scattered reports of Target stores not allowing credit card loads for the REDcard or putting a…
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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.