Using credit cards to buy from the US Mint...

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• holeinone1972 Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭

  March 20, 2009 10:19AM

  Use your paypal debit card to buy the UHR like I did. I got $18 cash back. LOL
  
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• derryb Posts: 37,620 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 20, 2009 10:26AM

  They charge me money to use their money.

  No Way Out: Stimulus and Money Printing Are the Only Path Left

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• ProofArtworkonCircs Posts: 4,223 ✭

  March 20, 2009 10:37AM

  Not the US mint, but General Motors/HSBC card refused to accept numismatic charges from the Vatican on my most recent attempt. If you don't trust the Pope, who do you trust?

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• OPA Posts: 17,141 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 20, 2009 10:39AM

  Nope, never had an issue with my C.c...is gives me a 1% refund the following month.

  "Bongo drive 1984 Lincoln that looks like old coin dug from ground."

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• itsnotjustme Posts: 8,779 ✭✭✭

  March 20, 2009 11:40AM

  I switched to Amex/Delta. 1 Mile per dollar. Just bought the family of 5 round trip tickets VA to HI for 200,000 miles (40K each). My UHR brought me 1189 more miles.

  Give Blood (Red Bags) & Platelets (Yellow Bags)!

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• Bothuwui Posts: 484 ✭✭

  January 11, 2010 10:17AM

  May have already been posted, but the direct ship program has killed most credit card points on mint purchases. Just called US Bank, and they will not give points on ANY US Mint purchase now. There goes all the points I thought I was getting on my platinum purchase in Dec. Said the effective date was Dec 8th 2009.

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• coindeuce Posts: 13,496 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 11, 2010 10:28AM

  I presume you're alluding to the Mint's collaboration with the commercial banking industry to appease the banks' complaint that John Q. Public was able to buy new circulation coinage ( Dollar coins to be precise) at an ultimate discount ( when CC company mileage points were awarded), while the banks were required to pay a premium for ordering the same from the Fed. The banking industry lobbied the thousand pound gorilla and was given a banana. Corporate business is alive and well in America.

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• ProofArtworkonCircs Posts: 4,223 ✭

  January 11, 2010 10:47AM

  It almost sounds like things are resolving better than expected. There were rumours that mint purchases would be considered cash advances which would have been even more punitive.

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• pocketpiececommems Posts: 6,047 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 11, 2010 11:26AM

  I use Discover with no problems

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• pennyannie Posts: 3,929 ✭✭✭

  January 11, 2010 2:51PM

  Just the usual back orders.

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• thisnamztaken Posts: 4,101 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 11, 2010 7:19PM

  I've never had any problems purchasing via my CC from the Mint.

  I never thought that growing old would happen so fast.
  - Jim
  

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• PerryHall Posts: 46,821 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 11, 2010 9:40PM

  
  
  << <i>I've never had any problems purchasing via my CC from the Mint. >>
  
  
  
  Ditto.

  Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
  "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
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• eggbone Posts: 615 ✭

  January 12, 2010 1:50AM

  
  
  << <i>I've never had any problems purchasing via my CC from the Mint. >>
  
  
  
  Same Here.
  
  

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