04
Feb
2008
Most Popular Credit Cards This Week For People With Poor Credit
Posted by Steve Rhode as Credit Cards
If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed right now, before you forget, to get the latest posts. Thanks for visiting!The following credit cards were most popular this week for people with poor credit. ----- If you enjoyed this post be sure to grab the RSS feed or get ...[Read More]
03
Feb
2008
Citigroup Kicks 161,000 Cardholders to the Curb
Posted by Steve Rhode as Banking, Credit Cards, Credit Report, Credit Score
Last year Citigroup swooped in and snatched up the UK internet bank Egg. And just in the past few days Egg has sent notices to 7% of their customers and notified them, We Don’t Want You Anymore. What makes the story interesting is that while the banks are spinning this as an exercise in ...[Read More]
03
Feb
2008
If Your Credit Sucks This MasterCard Can Help Rebuild It
Posted by Steve Rhode as Credit Cards, Credit Report, Credit Score
I was just looking through a bunch of stats and noticed that in the last month people seemed to be loving the Continental Finance Gold MasterCard®. Now I’m not sure if the attraction is that the card can actually help rebuild your credit since it reports to the major credit bureaus ...[Read More]
27
Jan
2008
Airport Credit Card Marketing Is Great For Getting People to Apply for a Credit Card
Posted by Steve Rhode as Credit Cards, Making Money, Marketing
Airport credit card marketing is an effective way for credit card companies to secure new customers, applicants and consumers as cardholders. It is an effective way to gather new applications as well.
26
Jan
2008
I Love It When You Talk Credit Card to Me. Oh Baby.
Posted by Steve Rhode as Ask Steve, Consumer Debt, Credit Cards, Money Management
Lovely reader Reese (a little link love for you) wrote a comment in response to my recent post Prepare For Your Credit Card Interest Rates To Jump Without Much Notice. Reese brought some excellent points that we should discuss. Pull up a chair my friend. “I’ve read some of ...[Read More]
25
Jan
2008
Prepare For Your Credit Card Interest Rates To Jump Without Much Notice
Posted by Steve Rhode as Beware, Credit Cards, Money Management
Banks could easily increase interest rates on customers that are carrying large balance in order to increase profits. Beware if you are carrying a balance.
22
Jan
2008
Credit Cards and Debit Cards - How They Work and What The Risks Are You Need to Know About.
Posted by Steve Rhode as Banking, Credit Cards, Debit Cards, Money Management
I suspect that there are many people like me who know they have an option to use a credit card, but don’t take advantage of it because they have a lack of knowledge or interest, or simply are in the habit of paying for everything with a debit card because it ‘feels safer”, but is it really? The answer surprised me.
21
Jan
2008
US and UK Comparrison of Debit Card Risks and Credit Card Protection
Posted by Steve Rhode as Credit Cards, Debit Cards, Money Management
This time I am going to look into the consequences of loosing your debit or credit card both in the UK and the US and what action you should take.
21
Jan
2008
A Debit Card is Just Not as Safe. I Don’t Care What You’ve Been Told Before.
Posted by Steve Rhode as Consumer Debt, Credit Cards, Debit Cards, Just Me Talking, Money Management
Once upon a time when debit cards were first introduced you could easily tell what they were. They usually had the bank logo on them, your account number and your name. However time never stands still for long and things have changed through the years so that today almost all debit cards look ...[Read More]
14
Jan
2008
Easiest Credit Cards to Apply For and Get Right Now
Posted by Steve Rhode as Credit Cards
Since I was looking at the data about credit card issuers and conversions I thought you might be interested to see which cards are getting the highest conversions as of right now among some of the issuers. These are typically for people with good credit. I’ll post some bad credit deals ...[Read More]
14
Jan
2008
A Business Credit Card Worth Considering
Posted by Steve Rhode as Business Advice, Credit Cards
If you don’t have javascript turned on you’ll miss this core of this post. I’ve been looking at some credit card application acceptance reports and it appears that the card below, with review and all, is getting some pretty good application to acceptance ratios. This is ...[Read More]
11
Jan
2008
Credit Card Worries and Whispers Today on the Web
Posted by Steve Rhode as Credit Cards, What People Are Saying
Random thoughts and statements from the web today about the web. Credit comments are running ahead of debt comments. must..get..local..credit..card.to.buy..books..online…else…die… I’m freaking about this credit card thing. I fucking hate anything that has to do with ...[Read More]
11
Jan
2008
First Shoe Drops on Capital One. Consumer Credit Leaks. Losses Pile Up.
Posted by Steve Rhode as Banking, Credit Cards
Credit-card shares were among the top decliners in the financial sector Thursday after Capital One Financial Corp. lowered its earnings outlook and raised its loan loss reserves, with increasing clarity that the credit crisis sparked by careless home lending has spread to the consumer sector. As ...[Read More]
10
Jan
2008
Daughter - Bank Officer and Mother - Real Estate Agent, Rip Off Customers
Posted by Steve Rhode as Banking, Credit Cards, Identity Theft, Scams, Wa-Wa-What
I’m always amazed when I read stories like this one from Washington state in the U.S. What were they thinking? I can understand wanting to have a little mother daughter time but you would think that mom would say “Honey, didn’t I tell you not to steal the bank details and ...[Read More]
10
Jan
2008
Barclays Bank Chairman Victim of Identity Theft
Posted by Steve Rhode as Banking, Credit Cards, Funny Stuff, Scams
A conman walked off with a bagful of cash from Barclays, by posing as its chairman, the bank admitted Thursday. The fraudster marched into a Barclays branch and sauntered out with £10,000 pounds from the account of Marcus Agius, 61. It is believed the conman used the Internet to get the ...[Read More]
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