Amazon.com credit card

Amazon.com credit card

Chase Freedom Card Offers $75 Cash Back at Amazon.com

Do you have some post-holiday shopping you've been wanting to do for yourself? If so, Chase just announced a great new promotion for Chase Freedom cardholders to kick off 2012.  When you shop at Amazon.com from 1/1/12 through 3/31/12, you can earn 5% cash back on up to $1,500 in purchases.  That's $75 cash back, which is really a great deal for a credit card with no annual fee.

Amazon Card Trumps AmEx Rewards at Amazon.com

 Remember AmEx's announcement early this year that cardholders could now use membership rewards points to pay their taxes? Since it's always annoyed me that we can't pay taxes with a credit card for free, I, for one, was excited when I heard there was a new option for paying taxes online. That is, until I dug a little deeper into the conversion rate and realized what a waste it would be to drop 200 rewards points for every $1 in taxes due. That's 400,000 points for a $2,000 tax bill—ridiculous!