Car Reward Credit Cards - Earn a New Vehicle Now By: Jeremy Biberdorf
With a car reward credit card, your credit card spending could be earning points towards a new car or vehicle related rewards. What reward is better than a brand new car? Here is a comparison of some of the top car reward credit cards. GM Flex Card - 1f

Simple Steps to Prevent Credit Card Fraud By: Michael Strauss
Many people are wary about using their credit cards, especially online, because of the possibility of becoming a victim of fraud. While fraud does happen, and costs hundreds of millions every year, there are some simple steps you can take to protect yoursk

Which Kind Of Credit Card Should I Choose? By: Michael Strauss
As even the briefest search on the internet will show you, there are thousands of credit cards available from many different providers, and even more sites offering advice on which card you should choose. Most card advertisements and promotions make a lotl

Getting a Credit Card with a Bad Credit Rating By: Nicholas Hunt
Paying with plastic has become a common part of everyday life, with more people now using credit or debit cards than cash for day to day purchases. The rapid rise of online shopping means that it's almost essential to have some way of paying by card, but /

When Not To Use A Credit Card By: Michael Strauss
Credit cards are a great convenience in our everyday lives, allowing us to easily buy products online and by telephone, and freeing us from having to carry large amounts of cash when making purchases in the bricks and mortar world. However, there's a potel

Is Credit Card APR All That Counts? By: Nicholas Hunt
Not all credit cards are born equal. Different cards have different offers, features, and charges, and choosing a card is not as simple as going for the one with the lowest advertised rate. Various types of card are suitable for different types of use, anl

Get in Control of Your Credit Card Debt By: Michael Strauss
Few people would deny that using credit cards can make day to day life more simple, reducing the need to carry cash and making it easy to shop online and by telephone. However, spending with plastic can sometimes be a little too easy, as it doesn't alw/

Bad Credit: County Court Judgements Explained By: Nicholas Hunt
Having a County Court Judgement or CCJ issued against you will have a severe impact on your credit rating, as it signifies that you have had serious problems paying back a loan or other form of credit, to the extent where your creditor has had to take cou/

Credit Card Cheques - An Expensive Convenience By: Michael Strauss
When most people think about credit cards, they first think of a rectangular piece of plastic that is physically swiped in a machine when you make a payment. In recent years however, there has been an increasing trend towards borrowing on your account witl

Is Cashback The Future For Credit Cards? By: Michael Strauss
For several years now, one of the most sought after features on a credit card has been a long 0% balance transfer deal, almost to the exclusion of any other feature except maybe the headline interest rate of the card. More recently though, balance transfel

How Important Is Credit Card APR? By: Michael Strauss
As with most financial products, credit cards are usually heavily promoted on their interest rate, or APR. The lower the APR, the more attractive it's supposed to be to potential customers. But is APR really the most important feature of a credit card? s

Credit Card Balance Transfer Fees By: Michael Strauss
The idea of a balance transfer deal was introduced to the UK in the year 2000 by innovative online bank Egg plc, who offered customers a bait of 0% interest for six months on balances they transferred from another credit card. The feature was an instan/

Flat Rate Credit Cards By: Michael Strauss
When credit cards were first introduced, they were a pretty simple proposition: use your card for purchases, and be charged a single rate of interest on your unpaid balance. Then came the rise of the ATM (cash machine), and credit card issuers realisedl

Credit Cards: Why You Should Pay More Than The Minimum By: Michael Strauss
In today's world of online shopping and bill servicing, credit cards have become almost an essential part of our everyday lives. No one would argue that they don't make life easier, but it's also true that they have a dark side in that it's all to easy to/

Are Online Credit Card Applications Too Easy? By: Michael Strauss
The days when the only way to get a credit card was to visit your bank in person are gone forever. Nowadays, it's even quite old fashioned to apply for a card by mail - it's much easier and quicker to apply online, and in many cases you'll even get an ins/

Credit Repair For Yourself By: Martin Sumner
Having a bad credit rating can be a serious problem affecting people's lives in all kinds of ways. Quite apart from making it more difficult to obtain credit, a poor credit rating will mean that the costs of the credit you manage to be approved for will b/

Choosing Cashback Or Rewards Credit Cards By: Michael Strauss
One of the main selling points of credit cards over the past decade has been the balance transfer offer, where customers are tempted into applying for a new card with the promise of obtaining effectively free credit. By making use of a 0% transfer deal, t.

Common Pitfalls of Credit Card Use By: Nicholas Hunt
Credit cards are one of the financial industry's success stories over the last half century, going from strength to strength since the first general purpose card was invented by Joseph P. Williams of the Bank of America in 1958. Since then, the number of /

Charity Credit Cards - A Good Deal? By: Michael Strauss
Charity credit cards have become increasingly popular over recent years, as people seek to support their favourite charities at seemingly no extra cost to themselves. When you take out one of these cards, a one-off donation of a few dollars is made by the.

Comparing Credit Cards to Get the Best Deal By: David Slone
In the United States there are many different banks and companies that offer credit cards. Banks and credit card companies are in stiff competition with one another to gain your business. Each of them will offer various types of credit cards with incentivc