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New welcome offer for the TD Aeroplan Visa Infinite Card - Earn up to 30,000 Bonus Aeroplan Miles with first year free + MORE Dec 2nd
The latest set of TD credit card offers are out now and while most of the cards have lower total welcome bonus offers - they are easier to achieve than the last set of offers. Our coverage this week starts with one of the most popular co-brand cards in Canada, the TD Aeroplan Visa Infinite ca.... More »
How you're not teaching kids responsible credit card use + MORE Aug 4th
Children are observers and parents unwittingly tend to do things just about guaranteed to show kids exactly what not to do with credit cards..... More »
This Week in RWRDS January 17, 2025: Win a trip for 2 to Tokyo & an up to 85,000 Aeroplan Points bonus + MORE Jan 18th
This week we look at an increased welcome bonus on the TD Aeroplan Visa Infinite Privilege Card, Air France KLM Flying Blue’s devaluation, a contest to win a trip for 2 to Tokyo and much more in our weekly credit card and loyalty rewards newscast! Watch This Week in RWRDS here: Listen to This .... More »
Podcast Episode 70 - COVID-19 and the airline refund situation in Canada + MORE Aug 10th
Episode 70 - August 10, 2020 COVID-19 and the airline refund situation in Canada In this episode we discuss the biggest topic in travel that has arisen due to the COVID-19 Pandemic and that's the issue of Canadian travellers getting or not getting refunds for f.... More »
Canada’s Best Visa Credit Cards 2022 + MORE Apr 11th
When consumers shop for a new credit card, they typically look at the ability to collect points, the insurance coverage offered, fees and interest rates on unpaid balances—not at the credit card company itself. But if you already have an account with RBC, CIBC, Scotiabank or any other Visa issuers.... More »
Sizing up a credit card rewards scheme
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Points pros live lavish lifestyles with their rewards points they collect, but if you’re planning to get in on the game, make sure the fees won’t outweigh the benefits
Case Study: Fixed Return Travel Card versus a Reward Chart Travel Card
– RewardsCanada.ca
In this feature we look at two very popular Canadian credit cards and the return you get from them for your everyday spending. One has a fixed point rewards chart system while the other is a straight cash back towards any travel purchase. The cards are the RBC® Visa Infinite‡ Avion® and the Capital One® Aspire Travel™ World Elite MasterCard®. The RBC card has your traditional reward chart system whereas the Capital One® card is your book travel anywhere and redeem against the charge system. With RBC’s reward chart system they have set out a points requirement for various regions of travel, short haul North America, long haul North America and so on. That fixed reward chart points requirement means that you have to use a set number of points to redeem for travel within that region. Taking short haul for example, you need to redeem 15,000 points for tickets that can cost up to $350 before taxes and fees…Open Cuba's Market to U.S. Farmers
– online.wsj.com
Americans can sell food to the island, but only in cash transactions. It’s time to extend credit. Mortgage delinquency rates were low in Toronto and Vancouver during the fourth quarter of 2016, despite hot housing markets that have sent prices soaring, according to a new report from Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation that examines consumer mortgage credit data.
June 13 Update: Fixed Return Travel Card versus a Reward Chart Travel Card, Marriott & Starwood won’t merge until late 2018 & more!
– RewardsCanada.ca
News, Tips & Tricks We released our first ‘case study’ that looks at the value you get from a Fixed Return Travel Card versus a Reward Chart Travel Card. Most proprietary credit card programs are the former save for several like Avion and Aventura which are the latter as well as your traditional programs like Aeroplan, AIR MILES and others using reward charts. In this feature we focus on two of Canada’s most popular and best cards with each one representing one of the categories. You can read the case study here. You may have even more time then we expected with Starwood Preferred Guest and of course the extremely strong Starwood Preferred Guest Credit Card from American Express (Why you should still consider getting the Starwood Preferred Guest Credit Card from American Express) as Marriott gave some more details on the merger of the two programs during a lodging conference and it looks like it won’t happen until the end of 2018 and that even isn’t being promised. So yes now more than ever you should be taking advantage of the very strong Starwood Preferred Guest program as you have at least 1…
