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Re:The Wallaby Card by the_watcher on Friday November 15, 2013 @10:40AM (#6739998)
I have a decent number of credit cards, but most of them are cards that I opened and just used to hit the minimum spend, claim my signup bonus, and then go back to using my regular credit card that has the best day to day rewards (I also only open cards that waive my annual fee, and cancel any that try to make me pay to keep it open. Keeping them open for free is good for my credit utilization and age). Sometimes, however, a specific card will offer 5x (or something similar) on certain categories for a limited time. If I could give Wallaby detailed information about how I value rewards, it would be nice to just have one card that I carry around.

I pay all my credit cards off monthly, and basically treat them as cash (so I'm not the target consumer of a rewards card, I know).

Re:The Wallaby Card by abalone on Friday November 15, 2013 @02:56PM (#6741747)
You are one of the smart ones. You're currently subsidized by the "dumb" ones. If everyone becomes smart, the maximum possible reward will decrease.
Re:The Wallaby Card by the_watcher on Friday November 15, 2013 @03:22PM (#6741906)
This is true. However, the point of these offers is to rope in people who think of credit cards as "free money." I don't think Wallaby will drastically reduce the number of marks for these companies, since the people using Wallaby are going to skew smarter.
Re:The Wallaby Card by TrainedMonkey on Friday November 15, 2013 @03:37PM (#6741997)
Majority* of people I know that use credits cards and pay minimum required amount are not dumb people. If anything they do not have a choice. Living from payday to payday will do that to you. Unexpected event? Time to pull out that credit card. It sounds so easy to just bunker down and break the cycle, but then whammy unexpected event.

* I might be biased in terms of people I know.

Re:The Wallaby Card by genwin on Sunday November 17, 2013 @02:52PM (#6750512)
The people in my life who live payday to payday overspend, but don't see it that way. They need an iPhone!
Re:The Wallaby Card by notdrunkatall on Friday November 15, 2013 @08:50PM (#6743221)
I do precisely the same.