• neptune@dmv.social
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    1 year ago

    Everybody is winning the Cash Back lotto until they lose their job or end up in the hospital.

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      1 year ago

      Failure to adjust your spending after financial hardship would be incompetence or irresponsibility.

    • Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      I mean if you’re living paycheck to paycheck it doesn’t matter if you’re driving rewards or not when a hardship hits.

      It could be argued the person churning credit cards would have the credit rating necessary to get a loan/advance during such a good of need. Whereas someone paying cash all their life would be SOL.

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        If you’re living paycheck to paycheck and putting more than a tank of gas on the card every month, you’re doing it wrong. If you have more credit card debt than savings, you’re doing it wrong. Part of basic financial literacy is building a safety net, so you’re not immediately fucked when something goes wrong.

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          1 year ago

          Agreed. I’m saying someone living paycheck to paycheck can still use credit cards and pay them off each month while collecting the reward points. You can pay all your bills with credit cards and immediately pay the cards off each month. It’s the same amount of money, just an extra step.

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      1 year ago

      I bet most of us aren’t actually making anything on cash back or rewards no matter what we do. %2 cash back isn’t free. Everything I’ve learned about the store side of things says the fees merchants pay is higher than the cash back + rewards. You think the store just eats the cost? Most of it is being passed to the consumers.

      However, I don’t think removing the fees now would lower prices. Might prevent them from going up a bit longer though.

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        Often times the price is the same whether you’re using Credit Card or paying cash. That means the X% fees the business pays to credit card companies is built into the price of your purchase. I’d you’re not paying with a credit (and hence not getting cashback) you’re actually losing money / paying more.