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Use the new Credit Card Lab on Capital One’s website to make a great rewards card, or to compare other rewards cards.

In an effort to help people make good comparisons of credit card reward programs I am building the definitive rewards catalog matrix. If you have a rewards credit card that you think is particularly good or particularly bad please let me know so I can look into it.
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Instead of sending me your rewards catalog, I’m just going to collect a table of information. The reason is that from the catalogs I’ve seen, comparing the items you can get is kind of a worthless process. Most catalogs don’t show a specific model number or other details that would be necessary to [...]

One of the toughest things about comparing all the rewards credit cards out there is that the credit card companies aren’t very good about showing you what your points can buy until AFTER you sign up. Go ahead, try and find the rewards catalog for a reward credit card without logging into the site.
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