Category Archives: Bad Marketing

Supreme Court rules for textbook arbitrageurs! Also: the worst graduate school in the world

Posted on March 20, 2013 by admin

THE WORST GRADUATE SCHOOL IN THE WORLD:Congratulations, Columbia Journalism School! You’re the winner of the Personal Finance Digest Worst Graduate School in the World Award. The cost of the school’s one-year degree is $84,000, which includes a whopping $58,000 in … Continue reading →

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Bad financial product of the day

Posted on January 23, 2013 by admin

Do we really need Ipad loans?

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PNC points credit card: a weird, confusing rewards card with a slight chance of being lucrative

Posted on January 10, 2013 by admin

GREATER THAN 2%?: Yesterday we received a solicitation offering us 25,000 points for the PNC Points Visa credit card. 25,000 points will at least get our attention, but a closer inspection revealed that this is a lousy sign-up bonus and … Continue reading →

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How other financial blogs lead you astray! Plus a Great Bridge Group update

Posted on December 26, 2012 by admin

BUT NOT THIS ONE, OBVIOUSLY: In the course of writing this blog we read a lot of other websites and we got to wondering: how much money do financial and travel bloggers get paid for driving credit card applications? We’re not … Continue reading →

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