Cash Back Credit Card Comparison

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Post by electricwater » Sat, Mar 30, 2019, 12:57 AM UTC

Cash Back Credit Card Comparison
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Post by floatingatoll » Sat, Mar 30, 2019, 1:38 AM UTC

Author of this page, if you're reading this, thank you for making this a plain text table of data with none of the tracking and marketing cruft that most people would do with this data. I really appreciate the efficiency of this approach and I'm grateful to you for keeping it simple.

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Post by chrisseaton » Sat, Mar 30, 2019, 1:40 AM UTC

Some of these are incredible - 6% cashback on groceries? I'd be surprised if the profit margin on groceries was as high as 6%.

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Post by 3into10power5 » Sat, Mar 30, 2019, 1:42 AM UTC

floatingatoll wrote: post #2

Author of this page, if you're reading this, thank you for making this a plain text table of data with none of the tracking and marketing cruft that most people would do with this data. I really appreciate the efficiency of this approach and I'm grateful to you for keeping it simple.

Thanks very much floatingatoll

This is way better than reading endless blogspots and searching on google. How much time did you invest into making this?

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Post by chrisseaton » Sat, Mar 30, 2019, 1:43 AM UTC

3into10power5 wrote: post #4

floatingatoll wrote: post #2

Author of this page, if you're reading this, thank you for making this a plain text table of data with none of the tracking and marketing cruft that most people would do with this data. I really appreciate the efficiency of this approach and I'm grateful to you for keeping it simple.

Thanks very much floatingatoll This is way better than reading endless blogspots and searching on google. How much time did you invest into making this?

Why are you asking them? They didn't write it.

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Post by jpmoral » Sat, Mar 30, 2019, 1:44 AM UTC

chrisseaton wrote: post #5

3into10power5 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks very much floatingatoll This is way better than reading endless blogspots and searching on google. How much time did you invest into making this?

Why are you asking them? They didn't write it.

The 'Author of this page' phrase might be confusing.

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Mar 30, 2019, 1:45 AM UTC

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Post by hyperenergy » Sat, Mar 30, 2019, 1:47 AM UTC

floatingatoll wrote: post #2

Author of this page, if you're reading this, thank you for making this a plain text table of data with none of the tracking and marketing cruft that most people would do with this data. I really appreciate the efficiency of this approach and I'm grateful to you for keeping it simple.

I believe it may have been sourced from Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/b5qjvf/i_r...

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Post by alexhutcheson » Sat, Mar 30, 2019, 1:47 AM UTC

If you're into optimizing things like this, I highly recommend the Doctor of Credit blog[1]. Most credit card blogs are basically just ads for credit cards that make their money off affiliate links, but DoC has made an explicit choice not to do that, and generally has good information without the "this is a super lucrative card everyone should apply for" junk that you see everywhere else.

[1] https://www.doctorofcredit.com/

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Post by alexhutcheson » Sat, Mar 30, 2019, 1:48 AM UTC

chrisseaton wrote: post #3

Some of these are incredible - 6% cashback on groceries? I'd be surprised if the profit margin on groceries was as high as 6%.

One theory is that the high rate on groceries is a way to make you carry around the card every day, so you're more likely to use it on other things.