 Blue CashSM from American Express®
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Intro APR: 0%
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Issuer: American Express
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- No annual fee
- Up to 5% Cash Back with Unlimited Cash Rewards
- 0% Introductory APR; as low as a 9.99% APR thereafter
- Up to $100,000 line of credit
- Choose to carry a balance or pay in full
- Online Fraud Protection Guarantee--protects you against unauthorized purchases online.
- Built-in Smart Chip--for added Internet security.
- Plus, An Exciting, Free Rewards Program
Fundamentals of the Card
Earn Up to 5% Cash Back
Blue Cash offers you a great way to earn up to 5% cash back combined with a 0% introductory APR and a smart chip for added online security. You'll earn cash back on virtually everything you buy, and earn cash back even faster at supermarkets, gas stations, drugstores, and home improvement stores. There's no minimum spending required, so you can start earning cash back right away. 1
Pay Your Bills with the Card and Get Cash Back
Pay your regular monthly bills automatically with Blue Cash and start earning cash back on everything from telephone and cable bills to parking and transportation expenses. Special payment features may not apply to all long distance calling plans. Not all providers service all markets.
Earn Cash Back Even Faster with an Additional Card
Additional Cards let you share virtually all the benefits and services of the card with friends or family members. What's more, additional cards earn you up to 5% cash back. So go ahead and order your fee-free Additional Cards when you activate this one. Additional Cards can be issued to qualified individuals over the age of 18.
Transfer Balances Fee-free
Transfer balances from your higher-rate MasterCard, Discover, and Visa cards to your American Express ® Card account with no transaction fee (for this offer. Fees may apply thereafter). Then enjoy the low APR: as low as a fixed rate of 5.99% for life of balance (until the balance is completely paid off), on BT requests submitted with this application.
Your Online Year End Summary
Your Year End Summary of Charges, available online as of February 5, 2004, gives you access to important information 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Flexible features make organizing your expenses a snap - download the Summary and print it out; sort by date, merchant name, or charge amount; review charges made within a category, such as Travel and Restaurant. Your Year End Summary is an indispensable tool for preparing taxes and budgeting. You may also receive a paper Year End Summary in the mail by calling the number on the back of your Card.
Unparalleled Customer Service, 24 hours a day
American Express is here to help you around the clock, with the kind of Customer Service that keeps Cardmembers loyal for a lifetime. For immediate service, call the phone number on the back of your Card.
Access Your Account Online
You can view up-to-date billing information online, including transactions, charges, and payments.
ID KeeperSM
Now your Smart Chip lets you surf the Web, shop, and manage your finances with ease, security, and convenience! ID Keeper is the new free Web tool that stores your favorite URLs, log-in, and personal data on your Smart Chip, so you'll never have to input them again!
The Smart Card Reader
The Smart Card Reader enables you to take advantage of the enhanced online security provided by Private Payments ®. Private Payments provides a secure, temporary transaction number to use instead of your actual Card number when shopping online. The Reader ensures that only you have access to this feature from your PC. Simply insert your Card into the Reader, enter your PIN (Personal Identification Number), and use Private Payments to shop online with confidence.
CoolBlueOffers®
With CoolBlueOffers, you receive special bonus offers and savings deals just for using Blue at the participating merchants, such as Gap.com, Origins, Sharper Image, and more!
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You’ve probably received several credit card offers in the mail, and the outside of the envelopes scream interest rates and promotional offers to try and entice you into opening it up and looking at what’s inside. Chances are, if you have an email address, you’ve even received a few credit card offers through that address- bright colors and animated graphics trying to convince you that there card has the lowest initial interest rate, or the longest transfer balance rate of all the available credit cards on the market. All of the offers will look good at first glance; after all- that’s what marketing is about, right? According to Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary, marketing is a noun used to describe “the act or process of selling or purchasing in a market, and the process or technique of promoting, selling, and distributing a product or service.” Credit card companies are in business to sell you their credit cards, and they’ll use a variety of promotional materials to get your business.
The outside of your credit card offer’s envelope might say something like, “LOW 0% Initial Interest Rate on all purchases and balance transfers”, but there is much more to how a credit card’s interest rate is calculated than that statement reveals. Initial interest rates are sometimes referred to as the card’s promotional rate, or teaser rate. In all honesty, an initial interest rate is basically the same thing for a credit card as a sale is to a retail store. Retail stores advertise their products that have a discounted price for a limited time to attempt to bring people into their establishment to buy the sale item, but also because once you are there, they hope you’ll purchase other products. Credit cards offering initial interest rates are basically putting their standard interest rates “on sale”, because for a limited time, new cardholders will receive a lower than usual rate on purchases, and sometimes also on any balance you transfer from one of your other credit cards onto this new card. What you need to understand about initial interest rates is that they really are “for a limited time”, and just as you couldn’t go to your favorite store and buy items this month for the sale price that was offered the previous month, you can’t extend a credit card’s initial interest rate beyond the terms they specify (often found in the small print!) What you’ll want to look for in the text of the materials that were sent with the initial interest rate cards promotional documents is reference to the cards ongoing annual percentage rate (APR). This is the interest rate that you will pay once the initial interest rate period has passed. (The regular price of an item after the sale has ended!)
Initial interest rates will also come with terms of agreement, in the form of a contract, which give reasons as to how or why the rate might be terminated by the credit lender. The most common reason to terminate the initial interest rate offer is for making a late payment on your card, and if you read the fine print of the credit card agreement- you’ll note that it states this very clearly. In order to keep the promotional, lower rate for the time specified by the credit card lender, you must make every payment on time. If you are late with a payment, you can expect the interest rate to jump to the ongoing APR, or in some cases, higher because you have defaulted on your contract agreements, so do everything you can to make sure your payments are made on time.
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