Credit Cards

How To Fight Credit Card Company Interest Rate Increases

Finance Gourmet on December 30th, 2009

With Congress passing legislation to reign in some of the worst credit card abuses, credit card companies have been scrambling to get their terms and conditions, also known as the card contract, changed to terms more favorable to them before the new rules take affect. By changing your credit card agreement before the new credit [...]

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Finance Gourmet on November 30th, 2009

Every year, they send out a holiday edition of Capital One No Hassle Miles rewards catalog. The 2010 CapitalOne Rewards Holiday Catalog showed up recently. Of course, we’ll be looking into these special reward offers and seeing if there are some good bargains, or if these points redemption offers aren’t worth it at all. One [...]

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Finance Gourmet on September 28th, 2009

Identity theft can happen in a lot of different ways. Some of them are difficult to avoid, if not impossible. Others are easily preventable with a little knowledge, experience, and understanding, plus a little bit of effort. Preventing identity theft with a paper shredder to destroy junk mail and other documents is an important start. [...]

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Finance Gourmet on August 22nd, 2009

What do the new credit card laws coming in effect mean to you and how can you avoid the tricks credit card companies have up their sleeves?

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Finance Gourmet on July 15th, 2009

Citibank raised the interest rates for customers with high credit scores who had never missed a payment.  Virtually every credit card company opposed the very tame reforms recently passed into law by Congress.  The sad truth is that is isn’t a matter of if your credit card issuer will try something sneaky, it’s a matter [...]

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Finance Gourmet on July 5th, 2009

Issuers of credit cards have started re-doing their terms and conditions in anticipation of recently passed legislation taking effect which prohibits some of the more egregious terms from credit card agreements. Watch for non-descript black and white mailings that contain a small brochure with fine print.  These are likely the new terms and conditions for [...]

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Finance Gourmet on April 14th, 2009

Earn free United Airlines miles by eating out at the restaurants you eat at anyway.

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