Archive for the ‘Cashback Rewards Programs’ Category

Review of the American Express Blue Sky Credit Card

Sunday, August 15th, 2010
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Last Reviewed: 8/15/2010

The American Express Blue Sky credit card is another one of those cards masquerading as a travel credit card, yet behaving more like a cash back card with some redemption restrictions. Thus, on PIQ’s Plastic Ranking Engine you will find the AMEX Blue Sky card in both the travel and cash back categories.

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Review of the Capital One No Hassle Cash Rewards Card

Saturday, August 7th, 2010
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Last Reviewed: 8/5/2010

capital-one-no-hassle-cashThe Capital One No Hassle Cash Rewards credit card is a fairly straightforward cashback credit card. It’s not an all-star card, but neither is it a laggard–somewhat North of middle-of-the-pack. One callout is that Capital One tends to tailor their offers based on your credit worthiness.

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Review of the Bank of America Accelerated Cash Rewards Credit Card

Sunday, August 1st, 2010
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bank-of-america-accelerated-cash-rewardsLast Reviewed: 8/1/2010

While the Bank of America Accelerated Cash Rewards card currently ranks 5th out of 32 cashback cards, as the table below shows, this card will earn you significantly less than the top-ranked Discover Escape and American Express Blue Cash card.  

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Review of the PenFed Visa Platinum Cashback Rewards Credit Card

Saturday, July 31st, 2010
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Last Reviewed: 7/30/2010

penfed-visa-platinum-cashback-rewardsThe Penfed Visa Platinum card might be called a hidden gem. The value proposition of this card is very straightforward: its awesome for gas rewards (5% cashback), very good for supermarket rewards (2% cashback) and plain Jane on all other purchases (1% cashback).  

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Overview of the Chase Freedom Cashback Credit Card

Wednesday, July 7th, 2010
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Last Reviewed: 7/13/2010  Last Revised: 8/21/2010

If you just read some random Chase Freedom promotional materials, the Chase Freedom credit card probably seems like an amazing offer, paying a whopping 4% bonus cashback (on top of the base 1% cashback!) on rotating spend categories each quarter.  

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What is the Value of American Express Membership Rewards Points?

Saturday, September 5th, 2009
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There are three levels of Amex Rewards—Membership Rewards Express, Membership Rewards (which is what this article is focused on), and Membership Rewards First. We have blogged separately about the Express program in our post What is the value of American Express Membership Rewards Express Program Points?

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What is the value of American Express Membership Rewards Express Program Points?

Monday, June 22nd, 2009
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There are actually 2 tiers of the American Express Membership Rewards Program—the MR tier (this is the “full” program) and the Express Tier (which is identical to the MR tier except that you can’t transfer points to other frequent flyer/hotel programs). The Express Rewards program typically applies to AMEX cards that don’t charge annual fees, such as Blue From American Express.  Since the Express Program offers fewer redemption options than the full MR tier, it’s possible (and it turns out to be true!) that the value of the points earned in the Express program could be worth less than the same number of points earned through the MR program.

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What is the value of Citi’s Thankyou Points Rewards Program?

Sunday, May 10th, 2009
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What is the value of Citi’s Thankyou Points Rewards Program

The Thankyou points network is Citibank’s primary rewards vehicle for its credit card portfolio (and points can also be earned just by opening accounts with Citi).

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