The main purpose of the Citi® Platinum Select® Visa® card is for transferring your existing credit card debt over to Citibank. A balance transfer to Citibank immediately saves you from paying future interest on your debt. And this is in addition to having one and a half years interest free – the Citi® Platinum Select® Visa® card offers 0% APR, giving you 18 months more to pay off your credit card debt, which at some point in time you will have to face, unless paid within 18 months. You do have to pay an extra 3% balance transfer fee, which is pretty…
March 2012
Aurora Bank FSB has an impressive record to begin with. It received a five out of a five star rating system from DepositAccounts.com, which speaks highly of the bank’s performance, at least until the third quarter of 2011. But that’s about bank’s health, when I tried to open an account, I met with their rates. Which is as below. Savings Account Rates Average Daily Balance Interest Rate APY* $1.00 – $999.99 0.00% 0.00% $1,000.00 + 0.25% 0.25% As for deposits, one can do better than the 0.25 APR Aurora Bank is offering for its savings account. While it is at least…
Powered by NFC technology, Google Wallet allows your phone to act as your credit card. By tapping your phone (only Android at this time) against a compatible chip reader available with select shops, your payment information are transferred to the merchant without swiping any physical card. Google Wallet in fact aiming for a plastic credit card extinction. While the idea of combining your phone and your credit cards may be scary, Google Wallet, in theory, is more secure than a plastic card. If you haven’t used Wallet in the past 30 minutes or so (or if you manually lock it),…
What a great week it was. FPR is seeing some stray visitors on the site. The SE traffic haven’t opened up and we saw only a couple of visitors from search sites. Roundup of best reviews and other articles I am part of a budding and enthusiastic Yakezie challenger group of bloggers. Every week we help and promote each others work. The following is some of the best post written by this group of fantastic folks over ta Yakezie Cult of Money presents his gains from Prosper Lending Program. Evolving PF presents Private School Angst. Simple Island Living presents Why…
If you are a heavy shopper at Best Buy, you may want to use Best buy rewards zone, if you want to maximize your rewards and score some deals every once in a while, you may apply for Best Buy Reward Zone® Credit Card Like most credit cards offers, the Best Buy Credit Card offers an incentive for signing up, but it varies. If you sign-up in person at a Best Buy store, you may receive a discount on your first purchase using the card. If you sign-up online, there is no discount. The card also includes a rewards program…
The Following is a guest post from Barbara Are you struggling to pay off your overwhelming credit card debt? If the answer is yes, then you can hire the services of professional debt arbitrators to wipe out your debts. Debt settlement is a process through which your principal balance will be reduced making the outstanding balance affordable to pay off. But these days, it might be difficult to find trustworthy debt settlement firms. The scam companies are shrouding like a black cloud over the debt relief market and take advantage of the susceptible debtors to extract money from them. However, in…
