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I have had my eye on a Pelikan M200 Brown Marble Fine nib pen for some time, and today, when I went to check the prices on Amazon.com, they were offering a killer deal on this pen. If you open an Amazon Store Credit Card, they reduce the price of the pen from $105 w/free shipping to $65. It took all of 20 seconds to get approved and when you use the credit card to pay for the pen, they reduce the total cost by $40. So I just bought a Pelikan M200 for a mere $65 with free shipping. Now, I call that a deal, because I have not seen this pen for sale below $105 anywhere else. I am happy!

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Congratulations on a good final price. However you got Amazon's standard $40 customer credit for opening a store card - you could have used the credit on any product they sell. Amazon did not actually reduce the price on that pen (which is sold by a 3rd party seller [Kalamu] and not Amazon).

 

In addition to the store card offer, if you get an Amazon Visa card you are credited $70.

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Amazon always has this promotion for opening their credit card on any purchase. Usually varies between $40-50 credit toward purchase. On the negative, you open yet another credit line.

“I admit it, I'm surprised that fountain pens are a hobby. ... it's a bit like stumbling into a fork convention - when you've used a fork all your life.” 

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On the negative, you open yet another credit line.

 

Why negative? Do they force you to use it for anything? I mean, that instead of the payment method you were using before, do they charge all your subsequent purchases to the new card?

 

Curious, because I've so far chosen never to 'bite' on that offer.

I may not have been much help, but I DID bump your thread up to the top.

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Not good for your credit score.

“I admit it, I'm surprised that fountain pens are a hobby. ... it's a bit like stumbling into a fork convention - when you've used a fork all your life.” 

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I got an Amazon Card a couple of years ago when I needed to order printer cartridges for the color laser printer. Which are really expensive (but are more cost effective in the long run than ink jet cartridges, which can dry up if you don't use the printer at least once a week. I was very happy for the "coupon/discount/whatever".

@ escribo -- There are pluses and minuses to having lots of credit cards, depending on your spending habits. If you're only going to be paying the minimum each month, having lots of credit cards is bad -- you can go into debt really quickly. If you have some, and pay them off in full every month, you end up with a much better credit rating. And if you're doing something like a business -- it can be VERY useful to have a couple of high limit cards in case you suddenly get stiffed by one of them.... :angry:

A few years ago, my husband and I were in Mississippi doing the sideline business. Unbeknownst to us, when Sam's Club switched from their in-house card being Discover to being MasterCard, the bank issuing the MasterCard CUT OUR CREDIT LIMIT IN HALF! When you're buying thousands of dollars worth of groceries and your card is declined that can be a serious problem -- and we didn't realize that it was because we'd maxed it out.... :o And of course, had NOT made advanced arrangements with any of the OTHER credit card companies of "Yes, there are going to be a whole lot of very large purchases in Louisiana and Mississippi -- they are NOT fraudulent charges...." Especially when there were times we were not getting more than a couple of bars' worth of coverage on our cell phones.... Or were on the highway but the Bluetooth in the car was being wonky. The Sears MasterCard people (in particular) had to get called *several* times over the course of that week....

And some of the companies won't talk to me because I'm "not the primary cardholder". Yeah, but my NAME is on the account. AND on the bottom of those 6" x 2-3/4" pieces of paper you get sent in the mail every month.... And if you're going to call my house because you think the card was stolen and is being used in Indianapolis illegally, after we TOLD you that was going to happen three MONTHS ago, and if you won't talk to ME (in spite of leaving messages on the answering machine), then you're just going to have to freaking well call my husband. Who is *IN* Indianapolis.... Trying to use the card on the business trip which you morons were told about in MARCH.... Oh, you can't do that? Well you just better find someone there who can. Because I'm really tempted to cut the card up into little pieces and send them to you by carrier pigeon, one sliver at a time. And then sue the SNOT out of your CEO.... Oh, and by the way, I'm betting that MY credit rating is better than yours. Now find someone with the authority to make that phone call! And that phone call had damned well better include an abject apology.....

Apparently the morons put in their calendar that both shows -- Mississippi and Indiana, were the same week :wallbash: but somehow didn't then notice that the card was not in fact used ONCE in Indiana in March.... Because of course WE told them that the Indiana show was the middle of JUNE.... :gaah:

Now do you see the *real* problem with opening many credit cards? It's "yet another set of idiots who have access to all your financial data but don't have the IQ to look at a calendar app on their work computer...".

No. I'm not remotely bitter -- why do you ask? Oh, it's because I just paid for my groceries with a DIFFERENT credit card, instead of the one I flashed to the nice greeter when I walked in the door?

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