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Capital One Rewards Catalog 2012

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 January 19th, 2011

Update: Information on the new 2012 Capital One Rewards catalog is here. The 2011 Captial One Rewards catalog is here! I’ve learned that not everyone gets a printed hard copy Capital One Rewards catalog in the mail, but for some reason, I seem to get one each year around Christmas. I guess the folks at [...]

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Finance Gourmet on January 4th, 2011

Not long ago, comparing rewards cards was pretty straight forward. Most credit card offers gave cardholders one point, or one mile, for each dollar spent and charged to the card. Credit card rewards programs sometimes offered bonuses for earning miles either for using the cards during specific periods of time or when shopping at certain [...]

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It is standard lobbying practice for any industry about to come under additional regulation from Congress to shout to the press, and whoever else will listen, that any and all proposed regulations or laws of any kind would adversely affect the poor customer. Thus, any additional rules or regulations of any kind on credit card [...]

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Finance Gourmet on February 2nd, 2010

In order to make it worthwhile to get airline miles without being a frequent traveler, it is important to take advantage of every mileage program bonus, special offer, deal, or coupon. For United Airlines Miles, one of the great ways to earn miles free and easy is to join the United Dining Rewards Program, which [...]

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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 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 April 14th, 2009

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

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