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Use Your DiscoveryCard to claim an AWESOME free Christmas Gift

Ok, I must admit, you don’t NEED a DiscoveryCard for this. You can use ANY Credit Card! What’s so awesome about this gift? Well, you can buy it at the last minute for one. Audiobooks are the best thing I’ve EVER bought myself. PLEASE do yourself a favour and read why here: Audiobooks Make Traffic [...]

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Credit Card Tips Again – Pay it off

Ok, here’s a nice tip… Pay off your credit card. One way I would suggest doing that is getting a hobby that actually pays you a little pocket money. Again, related to the articles below, a nice way to do this is become an online publisher. For example: 1 – Create a web-page (or a [...]

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Discover Credit Card Tips 2

Ok, how’s this for another reason to use the discovery credit card. You get Discovery Miles. Which, in turn, you can convert to Voyager Miles. Not sure how they work (the Voyager Miles), and I’m not sure if the Discovery Miles will be valid next year. But if they are, good! You can go on [...]

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Discover Credit Card Tips

Well, now that I have the credit card, and I’m making all these cool savings with it, I thought I could give you just ONE tip (at a time?) on how to make the same sort of saving. That is: USE THE CREDIT CARD! Why am I now promoting debt? I’m not really. I don’t [...]

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A few Punts

Well, now that everything seems to be finished regarding this rant and rave, I thought I’d like to mention a thing or 2 that have made this interesting. 1 – It’s been interesting to see what ads people are clicking from the AdSense ads on this page. Setting up AdSense was really simple, and personally, [...]

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Week 52 – Status Update – SUCCESS

Well, I’ve had this card for about 3 months now. Yes, yes… Typical. Only write something when you have complaints. Well, considering it took so long to actually apply for a credit card, prove i have a good credit rating (or is that a debt rating???) and then get this card delivered free of charge [...]

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Week 32 – Surprises all round

Well, I phoned again today. I asked when my card would be ready and the HDJ sounded shocked to see that my cards/accounts were closed. I explained the whole thing about no Card unless the old card was cancelled, so she did some investigating. I found out a couple of things: 1 – They needed [...]

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Week 31 – June 2005 – Shocking Truth Revealed

…………… Well, after a wait of, what, half a second, are you ready for the punch line, the climax, the ultimate truth, the final twist in this macabre tale of shocking service and absolute cluelessness (is that a word?). nobody knew they had to order an actual card for me. There we go. I’ve said [...]

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Week 31 – June 2005 – Part 2

Guess what. NO PHONE CALL!!! Are you really suprised? To tell you the truth, I am. He sounded like such a nice chap. So, let’s see where he was. A lovely sounding lady answered the phone today. She was surprised that yesterday’s HDJ didn’t phone me back. Her words: “But he always does?!” So, she’ll [...]

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Week 31 – June 2005

Well, I finally phoned them back. I helpful person on the other end of the phone was astounded that I had phoned 10 people, 6 of which had promised to phone me back, and not one of them had, except for 1, who phoned me back a week late. I practically made him promise 3 [...]

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