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Credit Card Come-On’s Prey on the Math-Challenged

3,000 Bonus Points vs. $60 Quick! Which sounds more valuable? Sixty dollars, or 3,000 bonus points? If you guessed the latter, you’d have lots of company — and be flat wrong (at least, according to the terms of a year-end credit card promotion I just received). Conversion Confusion Assuming 15,000 points converts into a $300...
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Offering a Bounty for Pre-List Leads

(Still) More Evidence of Tight Supply “Buyer’s agent will pay a 15% referral fee to anyone who gives an address for a potential listing that leads to a sale.” –email pitch (April 2, 2013) How tight is housing supply in the Twin Cities at the moment? Tight enough that at least one Buyer’s agent (above) is resorting...
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