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New Student Special: How to Build Good Relationships with Banks

  If you think only credit scores can decide your successful application for a credit card, you are totally wrong. In fact, your credit scores and credit reports should be considered when you apply for a credit card. Besides, your relationship with banks is also a crucial element during your application process. We have mentioned it in many posts. For…
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Earning Miles through Bonus Offers in US, AA, AS, DL Online Shopping Portals (Expired)

Various shopping portals, including United MileagePlus Shopping,American AAdvantage eShopping,and Alaska MileagePlan Shopping, have recently provided similar bonus offers. That is you can obtain certain amount of bonus miles besides original miles after you have reached a certain amount of consumption through portals. The bonus offers of the three shopping portals above are open to everyone now. If you have consumption…
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Chase Private Client (CPC) Account Review

What Chase Private Client (CPC)? Chase Private Client (CPC) is a kind of privileged client from Chase. When you become a CPC, there will be 2 Private Bankers serve you any time, they can answer your phones, reply to your emails, offer you investment suggestions, etc. It’s more like a private consultant service. What’s the requirement to become Chase Private Client…
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Credit Score Influence of High Utilization on One Single Card and Statement Balance on Many Cards

Recently I conduct a small test about credit scores focusing on the two following points: It is often said that credit scores will be reduced if your many credit cards all have statement balance. Is it true? If the answer is yes, how much influence is it? How much influence should High Utilization Ratio of one single card make? The…
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Discover + Apple Pay = 22%, 23% or 30% Cash Back! (Expired)

2015.11.03 Update: People are starting to receive their 10% cashback. You need to wait for the second statement after the purchase to get this cashback, if you still don’t receive the cashback, please be patient. The datapoints show that, Discover really has the ability to distinguish whether you bought gift cards, you won’t get the 10% cashback for gift cards…
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US Bank Avianca (AV) LifeMiles Credit Card Review (Discontinued)

US Bank LifeMiles Visa Signature Review, the co-branded card with Avianca Airlines (AV) Application Link This card no longer accepts new applications. This card will be automatically converted to US Bank FlexPerks Travel Rewards. The new Avianca co-branded credit cards are Avianca Vuela and Avianca Vida. Benefits Earn up to 20,000 bonus LifeMiles after the first purchase. The best offer is…
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Summary of Credit Card Trip Delay Benefits

Today let us talk about Trip Delay Insurance. Most of common trip interruption and cancellation can be reimbursed by most of credit cards with extremely strict conditions, such as extreme weather or illness. However, conditions required by Trip Delay Insurance are not as strict as those required by credit cards described above. For example, trip delays of common flights caused…
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