Introduction I signed up for the Discover Miles card last year – you know, the one with 1.5% cashback and then doubled at your anniversary to give you 3% cashback. I had signed up for the card on March 3rd, 2015. My first statement was on April 16, 2015. I didn’t get the double cash […]
Introduction A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about my Comenity Bank Virgin America credit card closure shutdown. Well, today I got the letter in the mail explaining why below. So even with a 748 credit score, they said I didn’t have any real estate (true since the mortgage is in my wife’s name although I […]
Introduction A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about how Chase shut down my credit card accounts and my checking account. Well, these are the letters they sent me. It appears they shut me down for “unexpected activity on my account” versus what I was expecting “perk abuse.” This leads me to think it was […]
Starbucks $10 for $20 deal Slickdeals posted this on Friday. I dusted off my army of Visa Checkout accounts from the NFL Best Buy debacle. I realized since that post 6 months ago, I no longer had about 10 of those cards due to the Chase shutdown as well as normal closings of accounts. Anyway, […]
Introduction A certain department store who has pseudo CASH and a store cc just started to introduce debit card payments to pay the credit card in store. My coworker noticed this and tried it out with some low denomination VGC. The store took it like a champ. So not a huge MS play, but it’s […]