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Connie PraterMy official title is senior writer at CreditCards.com. In fact, I consider myself a savvy consumer, a mom, a penny-pincher/tightwad and an above average Scrabble player. I have been a reporter and editor for print and online news organizations for more than 22 years. I was on the team of Miami Herald journalists that won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting in a series of articles on voter fraud in the Miami city elections...
"I'm sorry, but this card has been rejected," the snooty waiter says. Your companions around the table stare and you can't meet anyone's eyes as you go shifting through your wallet for another credit card that perhaps will go through.
Sorry. It just doesn't happen that way any more ...
What time is your credit card payment due? Yes, not what date is it due (though that, of course, is important). But do you know the cut-off time your credit card company sets for processing payments? For many credit card...
The audience listens intently as the speaker schools them on getting rid of credit card debt."Debt is a sickness and credit cards are an easy way to get sick," he says. I sit, taking notes. It's not a personal finance...
Credit cards have become the great equalizers between the haves and have nots. Even when they know they can't afford it, people with very little income can get the $399 iPhone, the iPods, the Xbox 360 games and other high-priced...
Have you ever tried to cancel a credit card? Maybe you weren't too pleased with the credit card issuer and wanted to voice your displeasure with the quality of the customer service. Perhaps you closed the account while bargain shopping...
We're raising a generation of kids bound for a plastic culture. That's a world where paper currency is obsolete, where you buy and sell goods and services through electronic, wireless or remote transfers of dollars, pounds and Euros. But you...
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