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Shane Roberts
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Editor Emeritus, The Inventory

Get the Reserve. Move all your current UR points to the Reserve. When your next annual fee on the Preferred is coming up, call Chase and switch your Preferred to a Freedom or Unlimited. You can have more than one Freedom. Read more

Get the Reserve. Move all your current UR points to the Reserve. When your next annual fee on the Preferred is

Yep, but they’ll be on sale. Read more

Yep, but they’ll be on sale.

Yeah but you’ll lose a bunch of value. Read more

Yeah but you’ll lose a bunch of value.

Don’t cancel cards unless you have to. If they’re no fee just throw them in a drawer. If there’s a fee call once a year and tell them you’re going to cancel unless they waive it. Or you can sometimes “downgrade” fee cards to their no fee counterparts. Read more

Don’t cancel cards unless you have to. If they’re no fee just throw them in a drawer. If there’s a fee call once a

Yep, but “upgrades” do not come with the sign-up bonus. Read more

Yep, but “upgrades” do not come with the sign-up bonus.

Do you do a lot of restaurant dining? Remember the sign-up bonus is huge, you could always cancel if you find it’s not working out for you in the future. Read more

Do you do a lot of restaurant dining? Remember the sign-up bonus is huge, you could always cancel if you find it’s

Since it’s not sponsored we don’t have to mark it as such, no. We have substantial disclosure on all our Commerce Content. Read more

Since it’s not sponsored we don’t have to mark it as such, no. We have substantial disclosure on all our Commerce

We’ve been doing Commerce Content for five years. Nothing changes just because we’re talking about credit cards instead of consumer goods or video games. Read more

We’ve been doing Commerce Content for five years. Nothing changes just because we’re talking about credit cards

How you redeem your points is extremely important. Redeeming them for cash is typically going to be a much worse return than using them to book travel through Chase or transferring them to certain travel partners. Read more

How you redeem your points is extremely important. Redeeming them for cash is typically going to be a much worse

Anker is creating sister brands when expanding into new categories. Read more

Anker is creating sister brands when expanding into new categories.

Unfortunately not. We’re still looking! Read more

Unfortunately not. We’re still looking!

You can pretty much always ignore list prices. Read more

You can pretty much always ignore list prices.

Yes, or vice-versa, or an external battery pack or generator or solar panel. Read more

Yes, or vice-versa, or an external battery pack or generator or solar panel.

Very easy, mostly nonstick surfaces. Much easier than my previous Breville Mini. Read more

Very easy, mostly nonstick surfaces. Much easier than my previous Breville Mini.