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March 11, 2007

Credit Card Rewards

Does you budget not allow for travel?

Are you spending with no thought to earning travel miles?

It's time to get control and review your spending habits and it's time to do it now.
You see, I too am out of control with my spending and I have to say that it's not so bad because I have accumulated so many travel rewards with my credit card spending that I have earned free travel.

By using my credit card to make all my purchases I have earned enough for free trips to Las Vegas. I just flew there on my points a few weeks ago.

While I don't endorse spending more than you can afford on your credit card in order to get free trips, I do endorse making purchases that you can afford on your credit card to take advantage of the reward points offered by several credit card companies.

I highly recommend checking out the top airline rewards credit cards to start taking advantage of free travel rewards now. You will be happy you did.

Posted by Colin on March 11, 2007 12:43 AM | Permalink | DIGG THIS STORY

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It looks very pretty in ads rather than in actuality. In fact you will rarelly get free ticket for date you wanted. And you will earn enaugh points only if you buy a lot with card. Furthermore, such kind of cards often has higher APR then average card and annual fee. For ex, Chase Bank
United Mileage Plus Signature Visa provide 18,24%APR and 60 annual fee. I don't want to excuse you from getting airline cards but you should take it into account when you are going to apply for credit card with frequent flyer miles.

Posted by: Credit expert | March 11, 2007 11:18 PM

That is a valid point. However, I have been earning free flights on my business card without any restrictions and my family really enjoys the free travel.

I live in Canada and have the RBC Avion Visa card which offers incredible travel rewards.

I do pay my balance in full every month and manage to accumulate enough rewards points to take my family on 2 or 3 free vacations every year.

As with most rewards cards, you will only earn "free rewards" if you pay your balance in full every month to avoid those sky-high interest rates.

I do recommend that consumers who carry revolving debt apply for a low rate credit card without the additional perks.

Posted by: Colin | March 11, 2007 11:28 PM

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