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With the rising price of filling up at the pump, some consumers who pay with Visa debit cards were running into problems. Visa would put a hold on the card when filling up. Sometimes that hold would cause the debt card holder to be overdrawn on purchases.
The good news? Visa is going to discontinue…
Topics: credit cards, consumer advice
I filled up the tank of my Honda Minivan at Costco over the weekend, where I paid roughly $4.19 per gallon. It cost me somewhere north of $65, and the tank wasn't even that empty.
The price of a gallon of gas is shocking, but wait -- it's going to get uglier. This week, the cost of a barrel of oil…
Topics: personal finance advice, personal finance, consumer complaint, automobile, consumer advice
It's been a tough week for the financial markets. The Dow Jones index lost about 3 percent of its value. The stock market is down more than 9 percent for the year (2008), and we're just teetering on the edge of an official bear market (market is down 19.9 percent from its high; 20 percent below the…
Topics: personal finance advice, credit report, personal finance
When I'm on the radio, I use headphones. But I have them turned so far up that some folks think I'm going deaf! While that's fortunately not the case, I tried some cool headphone technology while at this year's Consumer Electronics Show. Take a look at what these headphones can do:
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