1. How to Be a Card Shark.
- Author
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Quinn, Jane Bryant and Ehrenfeld, Temma
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CREDIT cards , *CREDIT , *CONSUMER credit , *CREDIT card fees , *REVOLVING credit , *BANK credit cards , *INTEREST rates - Abstract
Focuses on credit card rewards. Observation by Jim McCarthy, senior vice president at Visa, that more than half of today's credit-card solicitations offer rewards; Examples of gifts; Unadvertised, low-rate specials on bank cards; Variable interest rate on standard cards; How smart consumers go for the cheapest card; Suggestion that the cleanest reward is cash back, which fixed the dollar value of your reward; Advice from Robert Manning, author of "Credit Card Nation"; Author's experience trying to pay his American Express card balance in full.
- Published
- 2005