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Trade in That Gift Card for Rewards Points
You’re a vegetarian. Everyone knows this. Yet every Christmas, grandma sends you a gift card to the Wild West Steakhouse or Crispy Chicken Rotisserie. Well, instead of filling another drawer with unwanted presents, you can now turn those gift cards into rewards points. According to MarketWatch, U.S. Bank and Plastic Jungle (an online secured gift card exchange) have partnered to allow FlexPerks Travel Rewards Visa Signature cardholders to swap select merchants' gift cards for much more appealing FlexPoints. So that $50 gift card to Hams-R-Us? Turn it into reward points and redeem them for travel,...
by Chris Martin |
The 2012 Election season is about to go high tech: the swarms of cheery interns and fervent volunteers canvassing every neighborhood from sea to shining sea this year will now be able to get your monetary support with the simple swipe of a credit card. Intuit, Inc. recently announced that their popular GoPayment mobile credit card payment system has been revamped to accommodate political...
Chris Martin | 4-5-2012
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Watch out identity theives…there’s a new dynamic duo in town, and they’re out to fight fraud like never before. MarketWatch recently reported that AllClear ID, an award winning tech company specializing in identity theft protection, has partnered with the National Cyber-Forensics and Training Alliance (NCFTA).The NCFTA includes all kinds of good guys fighting the good fight, pulling together...
Chris Martin | 4-3-2012
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Credit Card Consumer News • Other Recent Articles
04-02-2012
It’s almost April, which means the tax man cometh…and he might want to collect on that decades-old credit card debt you thought was ancient history. According to USA Today, debt that has been canceled or forgiven is actually considered taxable income. Many people don’t realize that, thinking they’re in the clear until a 1099-C tax form shows up in the mail. What a shock to the system for someone who thought her debts had finally been erased....
03-30-2012
All the great new mobile wallet systems are ripe with the promise of lighter pockets and more streamlined pocketbooks. But the truth is, most of the great apps out there still leave consumers with a need for an actual wallet—to carry a license, to hold on to extra credit cards not covered on the system, or to store loyalty cards and coupons for merchants that haven’t jumped on the NFC bandwagon. But according to GigaOm, Cambridge startup...
03-30-2012
So you were too busy trying on the fluffy robe and raiding the minibar to keep track of your hotel credit card receipt. And a few weeks later, you got slammed with a whole bunch of bogus charges. That’s exactly what happened to hundreds of hotel goers in Texas, where a ring of thieves was recently busted. According to a report in Forbes, Steven Reese Clark was arrested with 248 stolen credit card slips in his possession, each bearing the numbers...