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American Express Blue Cash Preferred is pretty good, though there is a yearly fee. Supposedly you can exploit the 6 percent cashback by buying gift cards at certain stores.

For simplicity's sake, citi's double cash gives you 2 percent back on everything.

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5 minutes ago, bnmjy said:

American Express Blue Cash Preferred is pretty good, though there is a yearly fee. Supposedly you can exploit the 6 percent cashback by buying gift cards at certain stores.

For simplicity's sake, citi's double cash gives you 2 percent back on everything.

I was looking into the free version of the AmEx one. Lower percentage cash back but I'm not sure I spend enough to make the fee worth it. I might go with that one but not 100% committed yet.

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3 hours ago, Naraku4656 said:

i have the blue cash card with no annual fee. i like it. i use it as my main card

That's the one I think I'm gonna go with. Just gonna wait a month or two, try to get my current card balance down a bit and also wait until the inquiry on my record from the last card I opened falls off, since I'm already at 2 and any more will lower my score.

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3 minutes ago, fuggnificent said:

call the credit card company and see if they will negotiate.

i dont think they can change cash back but you can try. wont hurt. 

I'm not sitting on hold for god knows how long just to be told no.

They'd probably just tell me about all their other cards I could qualify for which I already know about because I looked them up.

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8 minutes ago, Athena 92 said:

I'm not sitting on hold for god knows how long just to be told no.

They'd probably just tell me about all their other cards I could qualify for which I already know about because I looked them up.

you dont know how to sit on hold?

you put the phone on speaker phone and post on here or wash dishes or play with your kitty until someone answers.. durr..

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Just now, KN said:

Get it through your primary bank for the best deal. 

My bank has one I was considering because it gives 5% back on certain categories each quarter. Like Q1 this year is 5% back at gas stations. Only problem is I was looking over what bonus categories they had last year, and another quarter they had travel or something like that which I would literally never use, and then one quarter was Wal-Mart and Amazon. I don't shop much at Wal-Mart and already have an Amazon store card that gives 5% back. So basically half of the year it's no better than my current card.

I was leaning towards an AmEx one.

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