I recently reported about getting cut off by TransUnion’s TrueCredit and have been looking for a new service to use to monitor my credit. A poster over at fatwallet.com mentioned a strategy where you sign up for a trial and then cancel. Subsequently, you are offered a significantly reduced subscription fee of $29.95 [...]
With all of the online transactions and credit card applications we go through there is a need to keep copies of documents for future examination. Printing them to files is ridiculous in this day and age. Adobe came out with their landmark product Acrobat in the 1990s.
I work on different information contracts regularly [...]
Below are three cards that are good candidates for the interest rate arbitrage a.k.a. make money via balance transfers. These are all from Chase. The good things about that is that the credit report pulls are likely to be from the same creditor and Chase has been known to waive balance transfer fees. [...]
I wrote about the Chase Sony Card awhile ago and about how you can get a $100 dollar bonus when you make your first purchase. I spent $1 on my cable bill last month and then paid if off the next day. Today I checked the account and the $100 credit has posted.
I [...]
I just got a second monitor at work. It is a wide aspect ratio and is nice for reviewing long lines of code. I kept the 0ld standard aspect ratio monitor to use for comparing files.
Windows XP has support for extended desktop but there was no way to move windows onto the second [...]
This is the third part in profiting from credit cards and is the most involved but you will see how it is worth it below.
People with average to good credit often get unsolicited offers from credit cards with 0% balance transfers. These offers are for both cards they don’t have and sometimes for cards [...]
This deal is very very similar to one I posted awhile ago regarding the Extra Bases Credit Card. The difference is that instead of receiving a Major League Baseball team jersey, you get $50. I would have done this one if I knew it was still ongoing and may still go for it. [...]
The 2 GB Silver Nano finally arrived! No matter how many card rewards I earn, I am still a little bit cynical that they will arrive but they always seem to!
Below is the new silver 2nd generation Ipod Nano that I earned from spending 2000 with in 90 days on the Bank of America [...]
Free Biz Mag is a site that gives away free magazine subscriptions to business professionals. It is an attempt to put magazines in targeted peoples hands. However, I haven’t heard of anyone being denied. Right now you can get a free copy of Spin.
I just applied for this subscription and have [...]
I previously wrote about how to profit off credit card by earning rewards. The post will be about how to bonus with 0% purchases.
When savings accounts pay 5% and mortgages are at 6% or more, a 0% APR card means a cheap loan. The question is how to get the money off of [...]
This is a multipart series on how to profit from credit cards. I had spent a lot of money previously in my life (during college mostly) on credit card interest. When I bought my first property I became aware of the importance and value of credit.
The first strategy to profit from credit cards [...]
Citibank has an interesting trick up their sleeve to improve conversion rates on application hits. They have a “reluctant applicant” mechanism that pops up on application cancellation. The normal and listed bonus for applying is 10,000 thank you points for an approved application. However, if you start filling out the application and [...]
If you are like me and have a hard time getting to sleep, you probably take Tylenol PM, Excedrin PM or a generic with diphenhydramine HCl. I am always loading up on some form of it.
Walmart is giving away Advil PM samples (I think this is a new product). I just filled out [...]
I ran into this on the website for The Hartford, the insurance company. I used to do consulting for them a while ago and was impressed with different aspects of their business.
Anyway, I wish I had read something like this when I was 17 or 18. They have a free guide for download [...]
This is early but reading it now means you won’t miss it. If you are a fan of ice cream or Ben & Jerry’s in particular you’ll like this. They are giving away free ice cream cones on April 17th at all of their 600 stores. Free Cone Day has even made [...]