Get your credit card’s annual fee waived

October 23 14 Comments latest by S. Brady

A reader named Becky emailed me yesterday:

Just wanted to say thanks for inspiring me to get my $95 annual credit card fee waived tonight. I remembered reading one of your previous entries about asking your bank (or credit card company) nicely for these types of things. I just got an AMEX and I asked if they’d waive my fee the first year…I think for $95, the 1 minute I spent on hold was worth it.

Of course, most people shouldn’t even pay an annual fee on their credit card. But if you spend enough to justify it, you can often get it waived by using the same principles I use when negotiating my bank: See Part 1 and Part 2.

Leave me a comment and let me know how it goes for you.

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I was on TV this week — watch my 2:17 CNBC video on credit card perks

September 5 31 Comments latest by henry

Hey, pretty cool news — CNBC flew me out earlier this week to New York to appear on “On The Money,” a new personal-finance show.

Here are a couple pictures of me getting prepped from a while back:

And here’s the clip of me appearing earlier this week, on Tuesday (click to watch clip):

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