Comments on: Credit Cards Don’t Lead To Overspending http://sketharaman.com/blog/2009/12/20/credit-cards-dont-lead-to-overspending/ Personal Blog of Ketharaman Swaminathan Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:37:03 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Forget Overspending, You Can Actually Save Money By Using Credit Cards! « Talk of Many Things http://sketharaman.com/blog/2009/12/20/credit-cards-dont-lead-to-overspending/comment-page-1/#comment-18070 Forget Overspending, You Can Actually Save Money By Using Credit Cards! « Talk of Many Things Sun, 30 May 2010 16:38:31 +0000 http://sketharaman.com/blog/?p=384#comment-18070 [...] few months ago, I’d posted a blog about why credit cards don’t necessarily lead to [...] [...] few months ago, I’d posted a blog about why credit cards don’t necessarily lead to [...]

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]]> By: Ketharaman Swaminathan http://sketharaman.com/blog/2009/12/20/credit-cards-dont-lead-to-overspending/comment-page-1/#comment-11486 Ketharaman Swaminathan Sat, 09 Jan 2010 19:25:33 +0000 http://sketharaman.com/blog/?p=384#comment-11486 UPDATE: Just stumbled on to www.truecostofcredit.com which is a tool from TransFS.com, a company I've covered in a couple of my posts. This website tells you the exact cost that merchants incur for accepting different credit cards for a range of merchandise. Just enter the first six digits of your credit card number - which reveals absolutely no personal information about your card, the website assures you - and find out the credit card fees for chewing gum (for one of my cards, it is 25.1%), sandwich (5.2%), pizza (3.8%), gasoline (2.1%), flat screen TV (2.5%). UPDATE:

Just stumbled on to http://www.truecostofcredit.com which is a tool from TransFS.com, a company I’ve covered in a couple of my posts. This website tells you the exact cost that merchants incur for accepting different credit cards for a range of merchandise.

Just enter the first six digits of your credit card number – which reveals absolutely no personal information about your card, the website assures you – and find out the credit card fees for chewing gum (for one of my cards, it is 25.1%), sandwich (5.2%), pizza (3.8%), gasoline (2.1%), flat screen TV (2.5%).

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