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[27 Nov 2009 | No Comment | ]

Today, Black Friday, has a lot of people thinking about credit cards:

Black fri is a day when I ride and see the mtns from my arena and think about lines, “stuff”, credit cards, pushy people and actually smile

As you can imagine, credit cards are used frequently on Black Friday. That’s why we have some helpful tips.

  1. Don’t max out your cards. Sure, you may want to spend a lot. But maxing out your card puts you in reach of overdraft fees that would be far better used on presents.
  2. Keep …

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[13 Nov 2009 | No Comment | ]

Joeyguti has had some frustrations:

Food on debit card, $8. Finding out that it cost you $70 in overdraft fees, priceless. For everthing else, there is#MasterCard.

In the near future, there may be some changes to overdraft fees on debit cards.

As the New York Times reports, new overdraft rules will make it more difficult to end up paying huge amounts on small purchases like the one above. Practically, it means that you will have a choice whether to sign …

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[23 Jul 2009 | No Comment | ]

Well, we’re the first to admit that we can’t compare to celebrity Elizabeth Hasselbeck. That said, lilbethy27’s tweet to “The View” star did spark our interest.

@eHasselrack the 23 quadrillion visa charges people have been finding in their statements! Hilarious!

So what exactly happened here? And how can you make sure to avoid it?

CNN reports that New Hampshire resident Josh Muszynski noticed that he’d been charged $23 quadrillion for a pack of Camel cigarettes (for the numerically curious, the exact amount is $23,148,855,184,500).  That’s worth …