Good morning everyone. I am heading to Greece and Malta for vacation and called my credit card companies and banks to add travel notifications to my accounts. I know most credit card companies and banks do not require you to alert them when you are travelling internationally, but I like the peace of mind of speaking to a person and making sure the travel notification are added to my accounts. When I travel internationally, I like to bring several credit and debit cards from various banks, just in case if some of the cards get lost, stolen, or declined. This means I end up making several calls, but it’s worth it to me.
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Credit Card Benefits Goldilocks Zone: Too Popular vs. Underutilized
Good morning everyone, happy Friday. I hope you have exciting Memorial Day Weekend plans. I will be exploring San Diego with my girlfriend and staying at the beautiful Andaz San Diego. Enough about me, let’s talk credit cards. This thought has been on my mind for the last few weeks, but sparked my interest with Thursday’s post about the Citi Prestige Credit Card trip delay policy, changing from 3 hours to 6 hours (effective July 29).
It seems that some credit card benefits are too popular (like Citi’s trip delay policy or Chase’s price protection) that the credit card companies are losing money paying out claims or inundating the services that process these claims. With several services that will automatically file price protection claims on your behalf (like Earny and Paribus) or automatically file trip delay claims on your behalf (like AirHelp and GetService), it’s no surprise that credit card companies are reducing or eliminating these credit card benefits. (I don’t use any of these services.)
Unboxing my Discover It Miles Credit Card: Card Art & Welcome Letter
Good morning everyone. Yesterday I shared the story that Discover would not match me to the Discover It Miles Credit Card $75 sign up bonus from Amazon. Even though I am still a little annoyed at Discover, I respect their decision. In today’s post, I am going to unbox my new Discover It Miles Credit Card (my referral link), show you the card art, and welcome letters. Without further ado, here is the nice brown package/box that came to my home last week.
Disappointing! Discover *Will Not* Match Discover It Miles $75 Sign Up Bonus from Amazon
Good morning everyone. During my recent App-O-Rama, I applied for the Discover It Miles Credit Card. At the time, there was no sign up bonus, but whatever “Miles” you earned during your first year would be doubled, essentially earning 3% cash back on all purchases for the first year (then earning 1.5% cash back on all purchase after that). After a quick reconsideration call with Discover, I was approved for the Discover It Miles Credit Card on April 16. 4 days later on April 20, Doctor of Credit reported that there was a $75 sign up bonus on the Discover It Miles Credit Card. Doh!!
My new Discover It Miles Credit Card came a few days ago, and before activating the new credit card, I called Discover customer service to see if I could get matched to the $75 sign up bonus. I’ve seen plenty of Discover customer service friendly commercials on TV and figured it would not be a problem getting matched to the better offer. Boy, was I wrong…
Plastiq: Schedule 6 Rent / Mortgage Payments & Only Pay 2% Processing Fee (New Users Only)
Good afternoon everyone. I just received an email from Plastiq regarding a new promotion for paying rent / mortgage payments. Unfortunately, this promotion is limited to new Plastiq users. Here are the details of the promo:
- You must be a new Plastiq user.
- Schedule 6 Rent/Real Estate payments and you will only pay a 2% Plastiq fee on each payment. (Plastiq fee will be standard for any payments beyond the first 6.)
- Use any credit card (Visa, MasterCard, Discover, American Express, JCB, and Diners Club).
- You must schedule your first payment by May 31, 2018 at 11:59pm ET.
- You must click this link for the correct code to be applied (I will receive a referral credit – thank you for your support).