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Best Buy Charges $15 To Pay Bill On Time
Owners of Best Buy credit cards (via HSBC) are being charged $15 to pay their bill on time online. The only way to avoid the fee? Pay at least two business days early. When we called customer service...
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Psht, Bank Of America Doesn't Need Your Consent To Give You A Credit Card
Hector didn’t know whether or not he was going to accept Bank of America‘s offer of a new credit card with a $3,500 limit, so the bank made his decision easy by issuing the card without his permission....
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More Patients Are Letting Medical Industry Raid Their Credit Cards Rather...
Americans are choosing plastic over paper when it comes to paying off the nearly $300 billion they rack up annually in medical charges — the leading cause of bankruptcy — every year, CNNMoney.com...
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AT&T Charges Customer Twice, Refuses To Investigate It
We think AT&T just stole about $157 from commenter Spoco. They applied the payment as always via his Amex card, but then said that it was declined and auto-debited it a second time a month later (+...
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Citibank: Transfer $5000 In Debt Onto This Card Or We'll Double Your APR
“It’s the increased cost of doing business,” was Citicard’s constant refrain when Kent’s husband called to complain about their latest pre-CARD act adverse action insanity: transfer $5000 in balances...
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Radio Shack Forced Me To Donate To Livestrong
Ryan says a Kentucky Radio Shack employee tacked on a $1 donation to Livestrong without his permission. This is the letter he sent to the company’s corporate office: I am contacting you regarding the...
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Debit Card Skimmer Found On Train Ticket Dispenser
Be careful, travelers, skimmers aren’t just for ATMs. Here’s one a Dutch guy found on a local train ticket machine. This is even a little bit more insidious than an ATM skimmer because busy passengers...
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Citigroup: 360K Customers' Credit Cards, Not 200K, Were Exposed To Hackers In...
Citigroup, which suffered a massive data breach that exposed hundreds of thousands of credit cards, upped its initial estimate of the amount of customers’ credit cards exposed from 200,000 to 360,000....
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Attempt Credit Card Balance Transfer, Wells Fargo Cancels Your Account
Howie had a Wachovia credit card, which is now a Wells Fargo card. After a barrage of balance transfer solicitations, he called them up to move some debt from another card over to Wells Fargo. The...
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Credit Card Thief Changes Your Phone Number To His So Fraudulent Charges Get...
Dan has a story of how his credit cards were stolen from his wallet and the scammer was able to get the account information changed so when the Capital One fraud department called to verify the...
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Target Says Hackers Used Stolen Vendor Credentials To Breach System
(dwlathrop)Two months since criminals first began stealing credit and debit card information via Target’s in-store payment system, the retailer is providing the first details on how the breach may have...
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Credit Card Issuers Increase Limits For Subprime Borrowers; Raise Concerns...
(Jeremy P) As the economy continues to improve, credit card issuers have begun to loosen their vice grip on lending standards in order to raise borrowing limits for consumers. But the move to provide...
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MasterCard Launches Program To Make Anything – Clothes, Rings – A Payment Device
MasterCard’s quest to make paying for things easier already includes a few out-there systems: verification via selfie for online orders, anyone? And it doesn’t appear that the credit card company is...
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Walmart Launches Revamped Credit Card Rewards Program
Saving money at Walmart is as easy as 1-2-3 — or 3-2-1? Either way, that’s the point the mega-retailer appears to be trying to get across with its newly launched Walmart Credit Card and Walmart...
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Costco’s Credit Card Transfer Issues Didn’t Affect Sales, Profits
Costco’s complicated, complaint-riddled switch from an American Express-branded store credit card to a Visa Citi card may have been a big issue for the membership store’s customers, but it apparently...
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Kohl’s Appears To Break Own Policy By Not Refunding $1,500 Credit Card...
When you overpay your credit card, should you be able to get a refund? One Arizona family accidentally paid their Kohl’s credit card bill twice, but the retailer refused to refund their $1,500, even...
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Scammers Buy Stuff With Your Card, Then Trick You Into ‘Returning’ Items To Them
Because there is apparently no limit to the amount of effort someone will put in to being dishonest, scammers are constantly evolving their tricks. For example, it’s no longer enough for someone to...
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