The Sun's Financial Diary

Chase has recently redesigned its United Airlines credit card, replacing the old MileagePlus Card with the new Chase United MileagePlus Explorer Card, an airline credit card that now allow cardholders to earn rewards with either Untied or Contenental.  Contenental and United have recently merged to form a new company called United Contenental, so with this new card, you are [...]

Now you can earn Membership Rewards Points even faster with the American Express Premier Rewards Gold Card. The new card allows you to buy the things you need and get rewarded with the things you want at the same time. Membership Rewards Here’s how it works. With the AMEX Premier Rewards Gold Card, you can [...]

These days, you don’t get a lot of credit card balance transfer offers that don’t come with a balance transfer fee. A few years ago, I played the credit card arbitrage game a lot and made some nice money by taking advantage of no-fee, 0% APR balance transfers from new and existing credit cards with [...]

Exactly one year ago this time, shortly before I got the card myself, I wrote about how PenFed was about to reduce the rewards that it offers through its Visa Platinum Cash Rewards Card. On March 1, 2011, rewards for PenFed Visa Platinum Cash Rewards Card cardholders on grocery shopping was cut in half, from 2% [...]

Chase Freedom card was one of the credit cards I used very often, mostly at gas stations and grocery stores to get 3% cash back. I said “was” because now I don’t carry it in my wallet any more for the simple reason that the fixed 3% cash back rewards for gas purchases is no [...]

Here’s another balance transfer offer, an even better deal than the one from Citibank Diamond Preferred Card I talked about a couple of days ago. This new promotion is from Discover More Card. For a limited time, new card member will be able to make no-fee 0% APR balance transfer for 12 months with the [...]

Want to give some American Express Gift Cards as gifts this holiday season? Use this 100% off American Express gift card purchase fee code to save some money when ordering your gift from now till December 31th. We bought a few AMEX gift cards last years as holiday gifts for the kids’ school teachers. The [...]

I have never traveled with Southwest Airlines before, but I have heard some pretty nice words about the low-cost carrier and its services. For example, last Thanksgiving our whole family took a trip to Disney World down in Florida. While searching for cheap tickets, I also looked for airlines that don’t charge $30 for the [...]