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Citi Platinum Select, Diamond Preferred: 0% on Balance Transfers for 21 Months

Balance Transfer Offers, Citibank

Citi is currently offering 0% intro APR on balance transfers for 21 months and 0% intro APR on purchases for 12 months on both the Citi Platinum Select and Citi Diamond Preferred Card. There is a 3% balance transfer fee with a $5 minimum and no cap.

See the following links for more information:

Update: Please note that the previous promo has ended. Please click here to view the current promo for the Citi Platinum Select card or here for the current promo for the Citi Diamond Preferred Card.

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Getting a Discount for Using No-Frills Credit Cards?

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Will it soon pay to have a no-frills, no-rewards credit card in your wallet? Under a proposed settlement just reached between the Justice Department and Visa and MasterCard, merchants will now be allowed to offer discounts, rebates or other incentives to use cards with lower processing fees, such as “no-frills” credit cards without rewards or points programs. As the cost of processing a charge varies widely, depending in part on whether the customer is using a rewards card, there is significant motivation for merchants to promote lower-cost credit card networks.

We may not be seeing many of these changes anytime soon, however. American Express has decided to fight these changes, so any merchants who still accept Amex will still be bound to their terms that prohibit them from discouraging the use of Amex cards. At any rate, this is a development that bears watching.

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Citi Price Rewind

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Ever have a pang of regret when you notice that shiny new toy you just bought dropped in price right after you purchased it? Back in the days when Amex’s Best Value Guarantee program still lived, that wasn’t such a worry. All you needed to do was call them up, provide evidence of the price drop and get refunded the difference.

The good news is that such programs still do exist. Many credit cards will reimburse you the difference if you find the same item at a lower price, either at the same retailer or elsewhere. For instance, under Citi’s current price protection program, if you find a printed advertisement within 60 days of your purchase for the exact same item, they will refund you the price difference, up to $250 per item (and up to a maximum of $1,000 per cardmember per year) if you placed the entire purchase on your Citi credit card. The major problem is that, unlike the original BVG, internet purchases or advertisements have been excluded from such price matching, significantly diminishing their usefulness.

Enter Citi Price Rewind.
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Visa Signature: Free Movie Screening of Secretariat in Select Cities

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Visa Signature cardholders are eligible to receive two complimentary movie tickets to an advance screening of Secretariat hosted by Walt Disney Pictures. Each guest is also entitled to a free medium popcorn and soda. The number of free tickets are limited and this offer is only available in the following cities: New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, Detroit, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Boston and Denver.

See this link for details. If you live in DC, you can visit this link. (Via SD)

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Chase Freedom Card: Buy One Movie Ticket, Get One Free

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Chase and MovieTickets.com have teamed to offer a new ‘buy one get one free’ promo. The first 25,000 cardmembers each month can buy one movie ticket from MovieTickets.com using their Chase Freedom credit card and get one movie ticket free. And while the promo targets Chase Freedom cardholders only, many are reporting success with other Chase credit cards as well.

To take advantage of this offer, visit www.movietickets.com/freedom. (Via SD)

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SPG Amex Limited Time Promo: 30,000 Starpoints with $1000 in Purchases (Expired)

American Express, Travel Cards

There’s a hot new offer out on the Starwood Preferred Guest American Express card, but it’s only good for the next week:

For a limited time only, get 30,000 Starpoints® after making just $1,000 in eligible purchases during the first 3 months of Cardmembership. This is our richest offer yet for the Card. The offer will only be available June 30 – July 6, 2010.

This offer is available on both the personal and business versions of the card. Previous Starwood Amex cardholders are not eligible.

Note: The above offer has expired.

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