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Re: Cash Back Credit Cards

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From: Art
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:59
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I have a Chase Rewards Visa card which pays a 5% rebate on purchases at food 
markets, pharmacies and gasoline.


"HWOS" <HugeWadOfSpit@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
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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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From: "Art" <akoolpe@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups: alt.consumers,alt.consumers.experiences,ba.consumers,misc.consumers
Subject: Re: Cash Back Credit Cards
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 07:59:59 -0700
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