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Re:Credit-Card Debt Nears $1 Trillion as Banks Push Plastic by tdfx on Friday May 20, 2016 @12:06PM (#11738960)
How do you make this profitable with a 2.5% service charge?
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Re:Credit-Card Debt Nears $1 Trillion as Banks Push Plastic by exhilaration on Friday May 20, 2016 @12:13PM (#11739031)
You only use it to meet the spending requirements for the signup bonus. For example the Slickdeals home page has the Chase Sapphire right now: "50k Bonus Points ($625 towards travel) w/ $4000 Spent in First 3 Months of Account". Other cards have similar spending requirements.
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