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CARDNEWS FOR CONSUMERS
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(12/23/99)
What Me Worry
When it comes to concern over Y2K, American consumers are more worried that
supermarkets will run out of milk, bread and toilet paper or that a terrorist
will show up at their house, than anything else.
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(12/22/99)
Magic Moments
Move over "Kodak Moments". When it comes to Christmas the name of the game is
"Magic Moments". As of this week, over 13,000 consumers have hit a "Magic
Moment" with their VISA card this holiday season.
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(12/20/99)
Online Shopping Checklist
Keyboards across the country are smokin' this week as consumers enter the
final week of Christmas shopping. Keep in mind that online shopping still
has risks and could be highly inconvenient.
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(12/17/99)
Debit Cards Soar
Consumers love plastic payment cards - - - in any variety. Ten years ago many
industry experts poo-pooed debit cards saying they will never take off and if
they do, debit cards will cannibalize credit cards.
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(12/16/99)
Friday Credit Talk
Psst . . . MasterCard wants to talk to you. Tomorrow from 12 to 1 p.m. EST
and again from 3 - 4 p.m. EST, MasterCard is sponsoring an online chat about
credit card and money management.
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(12/16/99)
Y2K Bug Bites
While the uncertainty of Y2K looms on the horizon, millions of Internet users
are already bumping into the Y2K bug. Web surfers visiting secure sites such
as e-tailers, banks, brokerages, reservation systems, etc, are seeing a
message pop up on the screen that says the Web site's security certificate has
expired.
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(12/15/99)
VISA Gift Card
MasterCard GiftCards are not the only game in town. This week New York
City-based Extrameasures rolled out a new VISA GiftCard in denominations
ranging from $25 to $500.
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(12/15/99)
Really Free MasterCard
The combination of a free Internet connection and a free MasterCard has
arrived! NetZero.com, which promotes itself as "Defenders of the Free World",
signed a multi-year, exclusive alliance with Fleet Credit Card Services this
week to offer a special credit card.
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(12/14/99)
Miles For Any Card
Get valuable air miles for holiday purchases. Now you can convert any credit
card in your wallet into an air mileage reward card. United Airlines and
Delta Airlines have launched a new program that enables you to register up to three
different credit cards that will earn up to five miles for each dollar charged
at selected merchants.
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(12/14/99)
Blockbuster Card
Video rental king Blockbuster is offering a great holiday deal on its gift
cards for online purchasers. For a limited time if you purchase a $20
BlockBuster GiftCard, or one of higher value, you will receive a 20% discount.
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(12/10/99)
Top Gift Card
While most plastic gift cards are limited to a certain retailer and
amounts of
$100 or less, there is a new gift card that beats them all, hands down. It's
the OmniGift Card. The new gift card is a personalized MasterCard that is
available in amounts ranging from $10 to $1,000.
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(12/10/99)
More Digital Wallets
Online shoppers who repeatedly fill out the same information for online
orders
are doing it the hard way. This year an easier way has emerged. Digital
wallets
enable customers to store information such as credit card numbers, shipping
addresses, and passwords so that the data doesn't have to be re-entered for
every online purchase.
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(12/6/99)
Top 10 Gift Cards
Christmas shopping never got easier. Now you can do thoughtful holiday
shopping in your pajamas. This year the hot buzz is electronic, plastic gift
cards.
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(12/6/99)
ATM Bug Dead
When it comes to ATMs -- the Y2K bug is dead . . . at least that is the
message the nation's largest ATM networks want to get out. This month the ATM
network operators will begin affixing special "Y2K Bug" stickers to ATMs
nationwide to show that they have exterminated the Y2K bug.
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