Here’s a great tip on tipping, just in time for the weekend. Over in the FatWallet finance forum, a discussion has developed around bars and restaurants fraudulently altering credit card receipts, usually to increase the tip amount. There is some debate as to how widespread the problem is, with some folks saying that it is [...]
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Our friends over at Blueprint for Financial Prosperity recently posted about ” 7 Unwritten & Often Forgotten Credit Card Secrets”. There is some great information in that post and I would encourage everyone to take a look. Here is a quick summary of the “secrets”: 1. Just ask: Lower interest, reduce or eliminate fees -It’s [...] Here is a really good post over at SavingAdvice.com. They detail 11 tricks that stores will use to trick shoppers into thinking they are getting better deals than they really are. All of these are really good things to look out for. Putting the amount off in bold to hide the actual (crappy) price. “Sale” [...] Here is a ridiculous story that appeared in the WSJ. This woman was shopping at a KMart in Bridgehampton, NY with her family looking at flip-flops, among other things. Per the account in the article, the area with the flip-flops were a mess, with some in boxes, some not, some not in the right boxes. [...] 4/22/08 Update: The FreeNEzy.com website written about in this post appears to have been sold and under new management, as documented on this recent post. While this change in ownership does not change any of the events that have occurred previously with this site (and my friend never got his reward), there is currently no [...] Is there a personal finance question that you want to know the answer to, but were always afraid to ask? Well, today is your lucky day! Here is my offer to you, my loyal readers: ask me (almost) anything! Just leave your question as a comment to this post, or email your question to me [...] |
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