Time to go shopping with the new Bloomingdale’s American Express Card. Providing Cardholders “Insider” rewards and services when shopping at Bloomingdale’s, along with new dining, travel and retail offers outside of Bloomingdale’s, the Bloomingdale’s American Express Card adds up to $25 reward certificates for rewards-earning Cardholders.
The good people at Synovate Mail Monitor spend their working lives tracking and analysing the credit card offers that are mailed to consumers. It’s not a career that would suit everyone, and its hard to imagine that they get many gate-crashers at their Christmas parties, but they do valuable work.
For example, last month they revealed that, during the second quarter of 2010, U.S. households were in receipt of 640.3 million credit card offers, which was 83 percent up on the same time in 2009. During that 2010 quarter, Chase sent out four times as many solicitations as it did during the same period last year, and Citi tripled its mailings between the first and second quarters of this year.
Credit card companies that think you’re a business
Even if you’re retired or an employee, you may have found among the piles of junk mail you’ve received recently a couple of solicitations for business credit cards. That’s
Credit card companies not loved?
Who’d have thought it? Many consumers don’t particularly like their credit card companies. Newsweek reported Thursday that 78 percent of of people participating in J.D. Power and Associates’ annual customer satisfaction survey said they were considering switching.
The magazine said that now: “It seems like everyone loves to hate their credit card companies…” Some might wonder what took them so long.
Credit card offers–how to pick one
On the same day that the Newsweek story appeared, The San Francisco Chronicle carried a feature under the headline, “4 Tips for Picking the Best Credit Cards.” As the title suggests, it identified four key criteria for judging credit card offers:
The Chronicle’s analysis was excellent as far as it went, but may be a little basic for readers of index credit cards. So let’s beef it up
Alright then, you might not be the type of person who looks at airmiles and money of CDs and dvds like the type of person i mentioned in my previous post about choosing the best credit card. You might just be a solid football club supporter who wants to do his bit! I won’t mention any clubs here so that i don’t offend anyone!…
I have a favourite club (that i won’t tell you) and i support it regularly by buying the strip, going to the games and watching them play on the TV, just like any other football supporter. But when i heard about football credit cards i simply had to go one step further. At first i thought that football credit cards were just credit cards decorated in your team’s strip, and it wasn’t until i got one that i realised exactly what it does.
It actually pays money to your favourite football club on your behalf. Can you believe that? I know what you’re thinking too; no matter how much you love your club you’re thinking that they don’t need any more money, and that the players get paid enough as it is. I agree with you, but to begin with, you don’t pay, your credit card company does, and secondly the money doesn’t go to that side of the club, it allows the development of the youth team and things like that. If you want to support your club a little extra you’ll support the youths!
— William Lee @ 5:49 am — 
September 10, 2010