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Why would you want such a high credit limit? Are you dying to spend money you don’t have?
Why would you assume they don't have $11xxxx?
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I use and love Apple Pay, but it's not ideal for every situation. The biggest flaw is that it requires waving your expensive phone in the vicinity of the reader. Apple Pay is more risky than contactless cards. There is a risk of dropping your phone or it being stolen out of your hand. I only use it in controlled indoor environments, like at a retail store, where I have enough personal space to feel comfortable gettin…
Where do you live where your phone can't be out in public for fear of opportunistic theft?
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The Apple Card is the only card in the US I am aware of that does not resell your purchase history to data brokers.
Are you sure it's not part of e.g. this dataset? https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/seller-profile?id=13af1c0... And even if it's not, as long as the other side (i.e. merchants and acquirers) just collects and aggregates the same data, that's little consolation.
> And even if it's not, as long as the other side (i.e. merchants and acquirers) just collects and aggregates the same data, that's little consolation.
Respectfully disagree on this point. The issue isn't leaking anonymized aggregated data. The issue is, for example, Chase can and does personalize rewards ads based on your exact transactions internally. So when you use any Chase card, every Chase related entity has access to your non-anonymized transaction data for marketing and credit decisioning purposes.
I will cautiously watch how Apple handles this issue in the future because I don't trust Chase and my financial privacy is important to me.
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Same. I think GP may be somewhere like SF.
Portland. It's not like this in the rest of the country?
Good independent pharmacies are the only way to go, IMO.
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Why would you assume they don't have $11xxxx?
If you actually have $110000 in freely available disposable cash and you’re worrying about whether you have the ability to spend it all on a credit card versus arranging a funds transfer or a check, I question your decision-making process. :D
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Portland. It's not like this in the rest of the country?
It’s very location-dependent. I live in a very dense area with many Walgreens and competitors and they’re all about the same. When you drive out into the far suburbs or country, they’re not as bad. Good independent pharmacies are the only way to go, IMO.
This quarter of the city (inner Southeast) is down to basically 5 pharmacies serving a very densely populated 10 square miles, four of which are in supermarkets (Safeway or Fred Meyer... both terrible). Only one Walgreens is left.
There is a locally owned, independent pharmacy that's owner-operated, about 3 miles away from me, and I've started driving to it. It's the only one in Southeast. The Walgreens is only 5 blocks away from my house, easy to walk to, but I've decided it's worth getting in my car and sitting in traffic to get to the independent one.