Last Reviewed: 8/13/2010
The Bank of America Accelerated Rewards credit card offers a respectable, but by no means jaw-dropping, 1.25 World Points per dollar spent. Since World Points can be redeemed in the form of cash back at a
How Does Capital One Determine Your Credit Level?
Last Updated: 8/8/2010
Capital One has a table on their website with guidelines for how they determine an individual’s credit worthiness—-which in turn impacts which card offers you are eligible for. Normally, GetDebit would just link to the table on the Capital One site and be done with it, but
Review of the Bank of America Accelerated Cash Rewards Credit Card
Last Reviewed: 8/1/2010
Note: The Bank of America Accelerated Cash Rewards Card is no longer being actively marketed or offered by Bank Of America. We recommend you skip this review and instead check out our review of the Read More
Review of the American Express Blue Cash Credit Card
Note: As of 4/30/2011, American Express replaced the American Express Blue Cash Card (which is no longer available), with 2 new credit cards: the Blue Cash Everyday® Card from American Express, and the Blue Cash Preferred® Card from American Express. If you spend more than
Review of the Schwab Credit Card
Last Reviewed: 7/26/2010
Important note: Around 3/31/10 Schwab stopped offering this card for new applicants (though current users of the card are grand-fathered in for the time-being). RIP Schwab.
If you’re in the market for a strong cash back card, I’d recommend you check out our
How to Apply For Zero Interest Credit Card Deals
Zero interest credit card deals can provide much needed breathing space from high monthly interest costs. The longer the interest free period, the more you will benefit because the more money you will save. Whether you feel like you are on the verge of going under or are simply finding
Review of the Capital One No Hassle Cash Rewards Card
Last Reviewed: 8/5/2010
The Capital One No Hassle Cash Rewards credit card is a fairly straightforward cashback credit card. It’s not an all-star card, but neither is it a laggard-somewhat North of middle-of-the-pack. One callout is that Capital
Review of the PenFed Visa Platinum Cashback Rewards Credit Card
Last Updated: 5/30/2011
The Penfed Visa Platinum Gas card might be called a hidden gem. The value proposition of this card is very straightforward: its awesome for gas rewards (5% cashback)-but quite horrible on all other purchases (0.25%, recently
Review of the Discover Escape Credit Card
Last Reviewed: 7/17/2010
The Discover Escape credit card (aka Escape by Discover) masquerades as a travel credit card, but is really falls into what I believe is a unique class of cards which I would dub “restricted cash-back credit cards”.
Review of the Chase Freedom® Visa With 5% Cash Back Bonus
Last Revised: 1/10/2013;
While the Chase Freedom® Card probably can’t start a revolution, it does provide a whopping 5% bonus cashback on rotating spend categories each quarter. Additionally, the Chase Freedom® card comes with a modest spend target bonus-$100 if you spend $500 within the first 3 months of card