September 2010

Limited Time Offer: PenFed Travel Rewards Amex Paying Double Rewards

September 30, 2010
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The PenFed Premium Travel Rewards Amex is already one of the best travel rewards cards out there, paying 5% on airfare, 3% on hotels and dining, and 1% everywhere else. Plus with no foreign transaction fees, it’s a perfect card to take with you on the road. Now they’re upping the ante, because until December [...]

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The AmEx Blue Cash: 5 Reasons it’s Worth Your While

September 30, 2010
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American Express recently replaced the old AmEx Blue Cash On April 26, American Express announced that they would be replacing the existing AmEx Blue Cash with two new cards. And good thing, too: we soured on the old Blue Cash, but now we’re back on the bandwagon. For an in-depth analysis of the newbies, check [...]

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Online Credit Card Search Tip: Compare 500+ Offers At Once

September 29, 2010
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We at NerdWallet have set out to provide our users and the online personal finance world with the best, most credible, and least biased credit card information possible.  If you’re in the market for a new card, you can compare more than 500 cards at once using one of our credit card finder tools, including [...]

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Citi Platinum Select: Best Balance Transfer Credit Card By The Numbers

September 28, 2010
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What makes a certain credit card great for balance transfers?  That depends on your own situation.  If you just need to buy some time to get your financial house in order, and you expect to pay off the balance in the foreseeable future, then you want a card with the best transfer fee and introductory [...]

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Online Credit Card: Compare Them All at Once

September 28, 2010

NerdWallet believes that bank credit card offers are best compared using our credit card comparison engine. It allows you to search over 500 US credit cards at once – and if you decide to get in the weeds, you can sort by various important stats, like low APRs, rewards, or introductory balance transfer rates. We even [...]

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Bank Credit Card Offers: Good Rewards, but Mediocre APRs

September 28, 2010

NerdWallet allows you to compare 500+ credit cards at once, covering most (i) regional bank credit cards and (ii) national bank credit cards available in the United States. The place where NerdWallet is working hard to do a better job is in categorizing credit union card offerings, which represent thousands MORE offerings than we list. While [...]

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Anacott Financial Credit Card: Too Good To Be True?

September 25, 2010
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Update 9/25/2010: This offer is new, and we caution that it is too good to be true and most likely a full-on scam. On paper, this is the best deal out there for people with bad credit. However, we encourage you to avoid this potential scam. At the time of this writing, there are many [...]

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Disney Credit Card: Doesn’t Make the Cut for Rewards or Low APR

September 25, 2010
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The Disney Visa credit card from Chase is a hugely popular credit card. We really can’t understand why. It probably helps that Chase is the biggest card issuer in the US, and that the Disney card is one of their few 0% intro APR cards.  It also probably helps that Disney is a marketing juggernaut. [...]

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Best Balance Transfer Card Just Got Better: 0% for 21 months

September 23, 2010
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Citibank’s Platinum Select credit card used to offer 0% balance transfer rates for 18 months, and we can attest that approval rates are actually relatively high, so it’s a great deal that can actually be gotten. [nw:timplate Citibank-Platinum-Select-MasterCard] But now, the introductory balance transfer rate has gotten even better! Citi is offering an even better 0% for [...]

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Carnival of Money Stories – Oktoberfest Edition

September 20, 2010
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Welcome to the 72nd Carnival of Money Stories, hosted by NerdWallet.  And since this weekend was also the beginning of that great overseas carnival – Oktoberfest – we’ve decided to liberally sprinkle this post with pictures of beer, pretzels, and shenanigans. Along with these pictures there’s an array of hand-selected personal finance stories from around [...]

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