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Article #150Re: Cash Back Credit Cards
From: HWOS
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 18:59
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 18:59
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On Aug 12, 1:57 am, Shawn Hirn <s...@comcast.net> wrote: > In article <N4xvi.229$Oo....@newssvr17.news.prodigy.net>, > > "Quiz" <Q...@quiz.com> wrote: > > Citi Bank cut the cash back they give their card holders for gas, food and > > drug store purchases from 5% to 2%. It looks like most other credit card > > companies are no longer offering 5% cash back on these types of purchases or > > are offering 5% for only a limited time. Or they offer 5% for purchases in > > less popular categories and rotate the categories every 3 months or so. > > Discover Card does this and based on the categories I've seen I would be > > much better off always getting 5% or even 3% on gas, food and drugstore > > purchases instead of the Discover rotating categories. > > > Does anyone know of any credit cards still offering 5% cash back for gas, > > food and drug store purchases? The best I've seen is 3%. > > Checkhttp://www.bankrate.com which is an excellent resource for finding > credit cards with good deals. It's nice to see a fellow put his good sense to work. This is one on the most excellent posts you' ve ever made. Thanks for the info! Live Long
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X-Google-Thread: 10f73f,6adcf61c6d57c8cd X-Google-Thread: 11474a,6adcf61c6d57c8cd X-Google-Thread: 106595,6adcf61c6d57c8cd X-Google-Thread: 107518,6adcf61c6d57c8cd X-Google-Attributes: gid10f73f,gid11474a,gid106595,gid107518,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: HWOS <HugeWadOfSpit@yahoo.com> Newsgroups: alt.consumers,alt.consumers.experiences,ba.consumers,misc.consumers Subject: Re: Cash Back Credit Cards Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 11:59:08 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 30 Message-ID: <1186945148.237570.182800@22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com> References: <N4xvi.229$Oo.181@newssvr17.news.prodigy.net> <srhi-12CCCA.01571612082007@newsgroups.comcast.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.148.72.10 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1186945148 28908 127.0.0.1 (12 Aug 2007 18:59:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 18:59:08 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <srhi-12CCCA.01571612082007@newsgroups.comcast.net> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: 22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com; posting-host=206.148.72.10; posting-account=ps2QrAMAAAA6_jCuRt2JEIpn5Otqf_w0