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Credit CARD Act: Live townhall with the White House 2/22 at 2

February 20, 2010

On 2/22 at 2pm (easy to remember), CreditCards.com will be hosting a live townhall with Austan Goolsbee, an economist who serves on the president’s Council of Economic Advisers. This is your chance to hear more about the Credit CARD Act, and credit card reform, and ask any questions that you may have. Questions can be [...]

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PNC joins the Banks that Suck

December 10, 2009

PNC, formerly National City, sent us a letter this week that they are raising our interest rate on our credit card. The reason for our rate being raised included this reason: “Limited relationship with National City/PNC Bank” PNC is now owner of National City (where we originally had our card). I was wary of PNC [...]

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Win a $500 gift card in the Love it/Hate it Credit Card Chaser contest

December 7, 2009

NOTE: Submissions and comments must be made at The Credit Card Chaser site to win. Do you love your credit card? Do you hate it? Tell Credit Card Chaser why, and you could win a $500 AMEX gift card! This is my entry so I’ll tell you why I hate my Chase card. You may [...]

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Dear Chase, you suck! (and other news)

July 20, 2009

photo credit: TheTruthAbout Remember how much I love Chase? They’re at it again! Chase sent a letter today stating they are reducing our balance by $700. This dumb move will make our credit utilization 90% of the card. The reason why? Because we charged too much too fast. Um, huh? We haven’t charged anything on [...]

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Why use a credit card?

April 18, 2009

Despite the fact that we are still digging our way out of debt (we’re down 17%!), we recently started using  a credit card for our everyday purchases. photo credit: Andres Rueda I’ve always been a big believer in using my debit card AS a credit card. Especially since our bank charges a $1 fee after [...]

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Credit Score, More Important than Ever

April 13, 2009

photo credit: me and the sysop We all know that the days of easy credit are long gone. Lately I’ve been reading about more and more people losing their lines of credit, having limits cut, or interest rates raised. When we had this happen with Chase, we took action. You can and should if it [...]

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squeaky wheel: Chase Credit Cards edition

January 30, 2009

Remember my post about Chase raising our rates? I decided to try to fight back. This is one of our oldest accounts, so closing it wouldn’t be optimal especially given that we are still waiting on a refi for our mortgage.  I sent several e-mails on their online system. I would get a near identical [...]

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