That’s right — the well-known king of account shutdowns is back again. This time, even his GameStop account got shut down, likely because he heavily used those 20x points promotion...

A look at author KUKU’s full experience with an AMEX Financial Review back then and how it was eventually lifted....

Today, CNBC reported major news: over the next few weeks, Wells Fargo will stop accepting applications for Personal Lines of Credit and will also close existing Personal Lines of C...

Miles per Day, the king of getting cards shut down, is back again—this time his Fidelity FIA credit card was closed. The reason: he spent $10,000 in a short period of time, which t...

US Bank used to have a pretty poor reputation among points and miles enthusiasts: not many good cards, and benefits changed often. But since the launch of the premium Altitude Rese...

WeChat reader Hu Liang shared a data point today about getting shut down by Charles Schwab. Background: Did not apply for the Debit card Had only been using the account to cash out...

AMEX can now give retention offers through online chat too. I asked for some at year-end and the results were pretty solid....

Today we saw quite a few reports about AMEX shutdowns, so here’s a quick summary....

Last Sunday, we ran an activity asking readers to share stories about getting clawed back. In the world of credit card rewards, clawbacks are hard to avoid entirely—even careful pe...

As we mentioned earlier, Privacy can officially be nested with 5205’s PayPal Key, which enabled a lot of different use cases. However, many readers in our WeChat groups have recent...

[Update 2020.9] In the ninth month after one of my cards was shut down, I applied for a new credit card from Synchrony Bank. The denial reason was no longer the one described below...