Introduction It’s been a while since my last shutdown. I had expected a Cap1 shutdown for a while now after hearing so many people getting shut down. I was sorta surprised that I was shut down due to my checking vs my credit cards. I’m guessing it was checking since that’s what I was notified […]
Introduction I was traveling over Memorial Day and applied for a checking and savings account at a local credit union, but I was on Gogo in midair. My application went to pending. Two business days later, the bank calls me and says, “Your application was flagged because we noticed your IP address was 250 miles […]
Introduction With all the changes happening with AMEX lately, I’ve been trying to rethink my card strategy with AMEX. I still don’t think I’ve perfected it yet, but I’ll just shotgun this until I get it right. Anyway, my Plat card’s annual fee is due in September. For some background, I also have the Biz […]
Introduction I have about ~53K Hawaiian miles in my account. I got it through the Barclay’s card signup years ago. However since they axed me, I’ve never used HA ever since. Awardwallet had been warning me for months that my miles were expiring in June, and so I tried to buy something through their shopping […]
Introduction A reader sent me this yesterday (edited for clarity): “Us bank closed my new reserve card cuz I bought 3 gift cards randomly along with other purchase using my mobile wallet. No warning ..no fraud alert… mixed purchases too. Today tried to use card and decline; called and they said your account is closed…no […]