Credit Cards

BillGuard Safe and Legit?

Finance Gourmet on March 31st, 2012

BillGuard is an online financial services company that monitors your credit cards for fraudulent charges. On the surface, this sounds like something you don’t need. After all, if you see credit fraud on your bill you are going to do something about it. However, in this fast-paced world, it is all too common for people [...]

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Finance Gourmet on March 27th, 2012

I’ve gotten several request lately to review Quizzle. Quizzle is an online financial service that offers, according to the bold face type, a free credit report, free credit score and various financial tools. Whenever someone points me in the direction of a personal finance company like this the first thing I check is if I [...]

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Finance Gourmet on March 12th, 2012

After a review of Credit Kama here on FinanceGourmet, a reader asked if I would look into another service he had found called Credit Check Total at creditchecktotal.com. Credit Check Total Review With many financial services, the reality of the offering differs significantly from what the bold, large-type headline suggests. The Credit Check Total website [...]

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Finance Gourmet on February 28th, 2012

TurboTax is a popular tax filing software package. There are several versions ranging from a free online basic TurboTax edition to a Home and Business TurboTax and more. They all in work in pretty much the same way. The software guides the user through a bunch of fill in the blank entry screens and does [...]

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Finance Gourmet on February 16th, 2012

Getting a credit card with poor credit is no easy task. Credit card debt is easily wiped away in bankruptcy. Furthermore, because most credit cards are unsecured, banks and card issuers have little recourse to collect the unpaid balance other than reporting negative information to the credit bureaus. People with poor credit aren’t as likely [...]

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Finance Gourmet on February 12th, 2012

Capital One No Hassle Miles can be earned on numerous Capital One rewards cards. The program follows the basics that all other miles based credit card rewards programs use. For each dollar you spend on the credit card, you earn 1 mile. Miles can be redeemed for free airline tickets, free hotel rooms and other [...]

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Finance Gourmet on November 9th, 2011

Capital One has different types of Venture rewards credit cards. One of them is the VentureOne Rewards Credit Card, which is similar, but different from the main Capital One Venture card that Alec Baldwin pitches on TV. This VentureOne credit card is yellow instead of the Venture card which is blue. Earn VentureOne Credit Card [...]

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Finance Gourmet on October 5th, 2011

Use your debit card from Bank of America even once and you’ll be charged a $5 fee. That’s on top of other fees that BoA charges. The bank that is hardly the top of the most customer friendly list has decided that it can no long afford to be in the banking business without money [...]

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Finance Gourmet on July 29th, 2011

Over at one of my favorite deal news websites, I noticed that Citibank is offering a bunch of bonus points for people who sign up for their ThankYou Premier rewards card as its latest Citi rewards card offer. As regular readers know, I don’t recommend that people go chasing after credit card rewards or applying [...]

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Finance Gourmet on June 7th, 2011

PayPal is a popular way to pay people online and also a useful resource for freelancers to get paid electronically. Funds can be transferred electronically from your PayPal account to your linked bank account at anytime. However, there can be a significant delay between when you initiate a PayPal transfer and when it shows up [...]

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