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Tyler MetzgerOne note. That’s all it takes. One note. One note and my plastic is running fast, smooth through the machine and one moment later I have the record in my hand and one moment later it is blasting and one moment later nothing else matters...
Be careful if you use your credit card when you go out for drinks. You might turn into Grandmaster Flash or Hank Williams Jr.
It's been widely reported this week that credit card companies are becoming increasingly stingy with their rewards programs. But while they're cutting rewards for the cards for the hoi polloi, card issuers continue to pile them on for the well-to-do.
Several Internet message boards are on fire with complaints from credit card users who spotted a mysterious charge of about 25 cents on their statements.
It takes about 62 hours to get from New York to Los Angeles on an Amtrak train, but it will take only seconds to get your ticket under the company's new plan to start taking credit cards onboard.
Xidian University in China needs a loan, and they want to sign you up for a credit card to get it. And oh, they don't see anything wrong with that either.
As the economy nosedives, consumers are looking for new ways to manage their finances. One of those ways is with a prepaid debit card, which gives its users some of the benefits of having a bank account with none of the strings attached.
Old: Go out of the way, meet with friend, drink, complain and leave.
New: Buy friend a drink from home on your computer. Call it a night.
PayPal has begun offering a service to help parents manage their child's online spending.
I wake up pre-sun, before the birds and before the noise. The day is yawning and so am I. My hands run over my face and then my quiet eyes and then I'm staring at my unforgivingly bright monitor. I skim the news, visit Perez and watch a few hip-hop videos from the '90s. Then, resentfully, I type the necessary characters to go to my bank's Web site to check my credit card debt.
You no longer have to stroll past a Salvation Army donation kettle this holiday season with your head down because you're out of cash. A nascent program in El Paso County, Colo. will be the first Salvation Army chapter in the United States to allow donors to use their debit and credit cards at five contribution locations.
Kazakhstan, fictional home of the comic character Borat played in a 2006 movie of the same name by actor Sacha Baron Cohen, announced this week that its bank Kazkommertsbank will issue a status symbol like no other -- a diamond-inlaid credit card.
About 400 D.C. residents were recently notified by the State Department that their passport applications were stolen by thieves seeking to use the sensitive information to commit credit card fraud.
If you travel with Continental Airlines, your flight just got a little cheaper. The airline announced Tuesday it will waive baggage fees for Continental Chase credit card and debit cardholders for the first piece of checked luggage.
As the 2008 presidential campaign nears its dramatic finish, both candidates' online donation procedures are being scrutinized for legitimacy. What's all the grumbling? It has to do with how their Web sites handle credit card donations.
Big thanks to Budgets Are Sexy for hosting the 175th Carnival of Personal Finance, which included my blog "Prank uses Obama in attempt to obtain Centurion bling." The carnival used a joke theme to tie together articles about entertainment and financial learning.
The Amex Centurion card is the ultimate status symbol for the rich. A lot of celebrities have one, including Lil' Wayne, Halle Berry and Sean "P. Diddy" Combs. But do big-name politicians have one? One prankster decided to get one for Barack Obama by posing as an assistant to his campaign.
After 7 years of using a credit card, I finally meet my credit score. I was emotional to say the least, but there were no tears, only a realization that I should have checked this a long time ago.
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