Archive for February, 2008
Chase + GreatFun Marketing Letter
I normally get joint marketing mails from American Express with their other merchant partners. Today, I got a mail from Chase!
On the face of it, they ‘wrote’ me a check of $8.50. Yes, a pathetic eight dollars and fifty cents. Being who I am (Mr Credit Card), I decided to investigate fur…
Prepaid Credit Card Line of Credit Advances
Meta Payment Systems (MPS) has recently introduced the iAdvance Line of Credit. For all motives; the advance is similar to a payday loan. The difference is, consumers gain access to the small loans through a prepaid credit card. iAdvance deposits money on the prepaid credit card and the co…
Sore Upon Sore Is not Salve… Credit Card cheat Monitoring Systems
Fancy you have finally got a chance to go on your dream trip to Chili, Mexico, Brazil, the Maldives, or the Caribbean. You enjoy every minute of your vacation, lying in the beach, walking around the place, eating feijoado completa in Sao Paolo, or drinking Red Stripe in Jamaica. Imagine your r…
Zero Interest Credit Cards to Avoid
I said that a few date, but I’ll say it again. The days of great 0% APR balance transfer deals are by. Why? Simply considering of a couple of reasons.
1. Offer 0% teaser deals have not resulted in creating customer stickiness or loyalty. Instead, when the 0% deal expires, they simply get anoth…
We will have a new credit scoring formula
We have to be aware about our credit score whether we are looking for a home loan or some general purpose loan from a bank. Most of the day we don’t look satisfied with the credit score we have and have been complaining that the credit scores are unfair. But now the companies that calculate our cr…
Debt Collection Software
The National List of Attorney’s recently sent out their newsletter and had a great interview with the folks from Comtech, gather! Software that I thought would be favourable to my readers. One of the questions I am asked most often is what type of software should I use for my agency?
NL: Who…
International Travelers With Credit Cards Get Money Back
Did you travel overseas between February of 1996 and November of 2006? whether so, and you used your credit cards while traveling, it’s possible that a recent class-action suit will supply you with at least $25.
Major credit cards, including MasterCard, Bank of America, Visa and others-…
