How You Can Profit from Credit Cards: Using Credit to Improve Your Financial Life and Bottom Line

Chapter 2. Show Me the Money! Credit Card Rebates

There’s gold in them thar hills, and I’m going to show you how to mine it. This is no gimmick. Not only can you use credit cards to conveniently buy things, but you can easily make money from them, get free airline tickets, cut the cost of gasoline, and more! In this chapter, I show you how.

America’s Love Affair with Card Rebates

Ahhh, love! Romantic escapes, red roses, chocolate, and...credit cards. What? Granted, we don’t typically associate those little pieces of plastic with romance, but our love affair with reward and rebate cards seems to grow stronger every year. About 85% of U.S. households had at least one reward card in 2007, and 80% of cardholders received some type of reward from their ...