May 2010

NerdWallet is Joining the Yakezie Challenge

May 30, 2010

Mostly as an excuse to stick this cool badge on our blog, we are joining the Yakezie Challenge alongside a host of other young, scrappy personal finance blogs. The point of this challenge, for those who don’t know, is to grow our little blog’s traffic and inch our way up the Alexa rankings, so that [...]

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Keep the love coming!

May 29, 2010

Yesterday was a huge day at lil’ old NerdWallet HQ. We got a nice little write-up in Lifehacker that really put our site to the test. And we failed magnificently. Can’t even call it a blaze of glory, we just went down. Hard. We spent all day yesterday sticking our fingers in the leaking dam, [...]

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Amazon Credit Card: The 27th Best Rewards Card?

May 24, 2010

The Amazon credit card gives you 3% rewards. You could be getting 5%. Nice try, Amazon.com, but we’ve got you beat. We don’t want to say that the Amazon Visa doesn’t have good rewards. It does. It’s just that, according to our analysis, there are at least 26 other rewards credit cards based on our comparison [...]

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World Points: Bank of America’s Sub-Par Rewards Program

May 23, 2010
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We give Bank of America WorldPoints program two thumbs down compared to other banks’ reward programs. Why? In most cases, you need to horde 25,000 points before you can redeem points for a 1 cent value, the industry standard. This is about as bad as it gets in terms of bank reward programs. Even Citi Thank You [...]

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Getting The Most Out Of Your Citi Thank You Points

May 21, 2010
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Update September 2011: Citi ThankYou Points just got restructured, and much for the better: you can now redeem as few as 1,000 TY Points for a $10 gift certificate to a wide range of retailers. Previously, you had to rack up 10,000 points to get a full-value gift card. Because of this change, we’re now [...]

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NerdWallet and Facebook, BFFs 4 Life

May 18, 2010

Update: We ended up removing this feature after all.  It was worth a shot! Recently, we’ve noticed that quite a few people like to tweet out messages like: Just applied for a credit card, wish me luck (thanks @NerdWallet ) And oftentimes our friends will rave to us that they used our site to find [...]

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Newly Improved Deals on Citi Diamond Preferred Rewards and CashReturns

May 14, 2010

The Citi Diamond Preferred and Citi CashReturns, already good deals, just got better. The Citi Diamond Preferred Rewards MasterCard now offers 0% on purchases and blance transfers for up to 15 months (previously 7 & 12 months, respectively). In addition, new card holders get 6,000 ThankYou Points if they spend $300 in the first 3 [...]

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Durbin Interchange Amendment: Precursor to $132 Annual Fees?

May 14, 2010

Durbin- 1, Banking Cabal- 0 Last night, to the surprise of Wall Street analysts and Hill watchers, Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin scored a coup by winning a 64-33 vote (60 votes were needed) to attach his amendment to the Senate’s version of a bigger enchilada – financial reform legislation. His amendment stipulates new rules that [...]

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Six “WTF?” Credit Cards

May 14, 2010

Since we credit card nerds spend so much time researching cards and reading all of their wacky terms and conditions, occasionally we stumble across some things that are just plain absurd.  Some are geared towards the ultra-wealthy and will never be of use to most of us, and some just use ludicrous marketing to convince [...]

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Unemployment is the Mother of All Invention

May 11, 2010

I actually stopped thinking about credit cards for a second and instead took some time to opine on the state of the startup community. My take? The financial meltdown may very well be the best thing that ever happened to us. In spite of, and because of, all the layoffs, we may be on the [...]

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