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Credit card miscellany
Celebrities often seem otherworldly, immune from the troubles of average citizens. Their lives appear so simple and luxurious. While they make more money in a year than most of us will probably make in our lifetime, they aren't even close to being exempt from everyday problems, especially when it comes to credit cards.
Ahead of Super Bowl XLII on Sunday, let's take a moment to remember some of the greatest moments from games gone by. That's right -- the ads. This being a CreditCards.com blog, join me as I look back fondly (and not-so-fondly) at some of the credit card advertisements from past Super Bowl games.
Calling all fashionistas! While I'm sure every one of you is dying to attend Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, not all of us can be so lucky. But fear not: American Express is doing their best to bring Fashion Week to you.
What are you giving up for Lent? The Methodist Church of Britain urges followers to give up credit cards.
Second Life, a virtual online world, has its own currency that can be traded out for real money. Virtual gambling was recently banned in Second Life, and on Jan. 22, due to the fact that a loss of virtual money means a loss of real money, unchartered banks will no longer be welcome, either.
The Federal Reserve thinks getting approved for a new credit card recently got tougher. But since communicating in easy-to-understand language just isn't the central bank's style, the Fed didn't come out and say so in exactly those words.
As shoppers head to the stores post-Christmas to take advantage of sales or return unwanted presents, gift card stories continue to make news.
In two New England states, there's a struggle under way over gift card funds. A Dec. 20 warning to consumers from New Hampshire's Attorney General shined a spotlight on retailers who are trying to bypass the state's gift card rules. Meanwhile, the neighboring state of Maine is using its unclaimed property law to demand a portion of the funds left on dormant gift cards.
InformationWeek and New York's WNBC report that a New York software engineer was able to gain access to the operating system for the credit card reader's touch-screen display, which is meant for presenting ads and short videos to riders, as well as enabling them to pay their fare with a credit card.
Men's Health put together a list of cities in its November issue with the worst personal debt, "Is Your City A Debt Trap?" and gave grades from A+ to F.
The U.S. lost a round Friday in its effort to clamp down on people who sit at home and use their credit cards to gamble on the Internet. In an unusual ruling, the World Trade Organization ruled against the U.S. and in favor of the offshore gambling haven of Antigua. The odd part: The ruling OK'd piracy.
What do you do with your credit cards when they're worn, expired or no longer fit in your wallet? Rock, paper, scissors?
The Associated Press reports police in Rancho Cordova, Calif., are giving drivers a holiday season surprise -- pulling people over for good driving and then rewarding them with $5 Starbucks gift cards.
My stories today on gas and oil prices in 2008, and about how many people will have to borrow money or freeze this winter, touched a nerve, judging from your e-mails.
In what looks like an April Fool's article, a Russian English-language newspaper, Kommersant, says that in Russia, credit cards made of actual gold and platinum are about to hit the Visa and MasterCard marketplace.
Credit card readers may have been installed in nearly half of all New York taxi cabs, but that doesn't mean that cabbies are welcoming plastic with open arms. In fact, Big Apple cab drivers are pretty hostile to card payments.
New Christmas-themed panties in the juniors department at Wal-Mart have been removed from the store due to complaining parents. What's all the fuss? The front said of the panties said, "Who needs credit cards..." The booty read, "When you have Santa." Apparently these mothers don't want their daughters to think Santa is their sugar daddy.
New statistics just out from the Federal Reserve Board give weight to what many of us know from our day-to-day lives. We're writing fewer checks these days to pay the bills.It's not that we're not paying our bills, but that...
"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...
Add this item to the list of dangers involved with store credit cards: In Wauwatosa, Wis., fists began flying after a promotion in a local Kmart resulted in approvals for anyone seeking a store credit card, reports television station WISN.
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...
We all could use a little escape from the everyday once in a while. If you're an American Express cardholder and can clear some space on your calendar between Jan. 20 and Feb. 13, 2009, why not take some time off in the form of a luxurious 24-day, five-continent vacation?
While some people would rather get a lump of coal in their stocking than the increasingly-ubiquitous gift card, other shoppers may be interested in a few unique gift card offerings this holiday season.
Marketers note that the members of Gen M already in the workforce (dubbed "shadow millenials") have their own unique buying characteristics.
While consumers are dreaming of a white Christmas, retailers are thinking black -- as in a profitable holiday shopping season. But if a recent item from CNNMoney.com is correct, the second Federal Reserve interest rate cut of 2007 may not be enough to give retailers the sales lift they need this year.
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...
At least it offers a break from the ever-present "I'm a sexy (nurse, maid, astrophysicist, etc.)" costume, but when it comes to gender roles and women's Halloween get-ups, this credit card outfit might not be much better:
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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