Starwood Preferred Guest Card up to 25,000 Starpoints
Starwood Preferred Guest Card from American Express is having a promotion that will give new cardholder up to 25,000 Starpoints in bonus. Of those bonus points, 10,000 points (enough for up to 3 free nights at a Category 1 or 2 hotel) will be credited after the first purchase within the first year. The additional [...]
Citi Forward Card for College Students: Get Rewarded for Using Credit Responsibly
Early last month, Citibank introduced a new card, Citi Forward Card, which rewards cardholders for using the card responsibly by lowering the interest rate up to 2%. The concept of rewarding good behaviors is quite unique, especially in this environment where every major credit card issuers are raising rates, sometimes even without any reason. So [...]
Citi PremierPass Card 20,000 ThankYou Points Promotion
Over the past several years, I have acquired a couple of travel rewards credit cards, including AMEX Delta SkyMiles Card, Discover Miles Card, and Citi PremierPass Card. Though I don’t travel a lot, I’d like to have a card that gives better rewards for travel than a everyday card like the Fidelity 529 Card I am [...]
Random News: Best Toilet Paper, Bank of America Credit Card Rate Hikes, and (Vehicle) Size Does Matter
There’s an article on Consumer Reports website last week with the organization’s latest test results on toilet papers (which will also appear in the May issue of Consumer Report magazine). The article has some interesting findings that could affect which brand we will buy in the future.
We have been using Scott 1000-sheet single ply paper [...]
Visa Black Card: What Do You Get from It?
Did I mention a few days ago that I once had a “black” card?
Well, if you read the post, you know that I called the Discover card I owned a while ago a “black” card only because the card was printed with black color. That’s actually the only “feature” that made the card a “black” [...]
Can You Pay Federal Taxes with Credit Cards?
The answer is Yes.
The question isn’t really whether you can use plastics to pay taxes or not, but rather whether paying taxes with credit cards is worth it or not.
How Much Does It Cost to Pay Taxes by Credit Cards?
The IRS has two authorized partners which provide the convenience service of letting taxpayers pay taxes [...]
Closed a Bunch of Credit Cards
After having been mostly in the credit card accumulation mode for years, it seems that the time to cut down my “holdings” has finally come. The main reason that I probably will never use some of the cards again because they don’t offer any reward that’s better than those cards I am actively using now. [...]
My Old Credit Cards
Whenever you receive a replacement credit card, the issuer always asks you to destroy the old card, like cut it in half, so the old card can no longer be used. Do you always follow what you are told to do?
I don’t know about you, but I never destroyed a single card and never thrown [...]
UPromise Card Improves Rewards Program and Offer $25 Bonus
Early last week, I received my brand new UPromise Credit Card from Bank of America. The look, however, isn’t the only change that was made after UPromise switched the card’s association from Citibank to BofA. The rewards program itself also got an upgrade.
I have been a UPromise credit card member since 2002, using it to [...]
Discover More Card $50 Bonus
Discover is offering a $50 bonus for every new, approved application for its More Card after spending $500 in the first 3 months.
The More Card lets cardholder earn unlimited cash rewards on all purchases. Benefits of the More Card include:
5% cashback on purchases on travel, home improvement stores, department stores, gas stations, groceries, and restaurants, [...]
