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Must Read If You Are Or Thinking About Being A US Bank Customer

I am a US Bank Flexperks cardholder for a little over 2 years, I like the additional benefits the card offers and the bonus categories. It’s interesting to see that

These Are My Go To Cards When Testing A Purchase

Whenever I make purchases on retailers I am not familiar with, I use two cards. They are any of my Chase cards, typically the Freedom, and Citi Forward card. I

Check Your Snail Mail For Citi Targeted Offers

My mom has been a Citibank customer since 2004 and for whatever reason in 2013 without requesting, Citi product changed her Diamond Preferred to a Thank You Preferred. Citi is

Credit Card Processors Think Consumers Are Saving Money And Not Spending

Last week, I wrote about how I thought Wall Street affected manufactured spending. It was a lot of fun to analyze a situation that’s not entirely tangent to what’s normally

If You Were To Read 5 Posts This Week – Here Are My Recommendations

The last two weeks there have covered some interesting aspects and I’d like to highlight 5 posts that I think are a must read if that’s all the time you had

Interesting Hyatt Gift Certificate For $5,000 Towards An Event

Over the weekend, I was perusing the gift cards offered on eBay. I came across this offer. It is a $5,000 certificate for food and beverages at the Hyatt Regency Pier

Why I Will Not Sign Up For the Citi AAdvantage Business Card

In the last few weeks, there have been tons of talk about quickly making an easy American Airlines AAdvantage miles from signing up for the Citi cards as well as

American Express Increased My Credit Without Asking Or Pull

In March 2013, I opened a business American Express Starwood Preferred Guest Card with an original $6,000 line of credit. In those 9 months, I was able to spend $30,000

MyPoints Credit Card Will Be Overhauled

A couple of months ago, MyPoints redesigned their website. Unfortunately, I don’t have a screenshot of what the old website, but here’s a snapshot of what it is now.

Their old..

How Wall Street Influenced Manufactured Spending

I need to preface this by saying I have no positions or any near term positions of owning stock in Staples or Office Depot as of writing this post.
With that

Pure Speculation: Is Chase Doing Away The Fairmont Credit Card?

I came across Miles Remaining’s post on Hotel Award Charts and thought this was a nice chart to bookmark.
Then I saw the chart for Fairmont and every time I see something

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Are you a Travelist?

I’m not sure I should be allowed to continue to blog as I make up words far too much. The word ‘Travelist’ as far as I am aware has no

Deal Savvy Or Crossing The Line?

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about a price matching deal using TigerDirect price matching to Newegg. Reader Hua left the comment:
I like the price protection provided by Chase

What You Need To Know About Chasing The Points

This week marks the big one year anniversary that I have joined Saverocity and there’s been a large influx of both new and old readers and I want to make

What I Have Been Doing Recently

As I’ve previously mentioned, you need to follow your favorite blogger. As bloggers in the credit card arena, at some point, our content will intersect. It is inevitable, but there

I Think I Would Have Killed My Golden Goose Because Of A Clerical Error

If you’ve been following along with my recent posts, I’ve tried a different method of emptying out my prepaid cards. I am buying a bunch of money orders with a

I’m Loving The Crappy 2014 Miles And Points

Delta:
I don’t know about you, but the SkyPesos that Gary from View From the Wing coined (Delta SkyMiles) and Citi Thank You Points are really growing on me. Check out

One More Plan That Did Not Go Right

I’m currently on a roll of plans not going as I wanted them to go. You can read about it: for the first one, my price match purchase and the

Why Your Point Transfers To Other Programs Take Certain Amounts Of Time

Last week, I wrote about retailer’s operations in both coupons and how their point of sales operate.
Today, I wanted to quickly discuss point transfers. There’s many programs tha..

Giveaway Winners!

Last week, I posted a giveaway and to just leave a comment on what you’d like to win. I have the winners!
I will be reaching out to Shawn since he won

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