Comments on: What is the matter with this credit card? http://blog.xcski.com/2004/06/17/what-is-the-matter-with-this-credit-card Everything I used to bore people on newsgroups and mailing lists with, now in one inconvenient place. Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:00:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Mike http://blog.xcski.com/2004/06/17/what-is-the-matter-with-this-credit-card#comment-275 Mike Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000 http://xcski.com/wordpress/?p=237#comment-275 I'd go with the online purchases, just on general principles. So use the Citi for charts, and the MBNA for online stuff. Just a suggestion, mind. I’d go with the online purchases, just on general principles. So use the Citi for charts, and the MBNA for online stuff. Just a suggestion, mind.

]]> By: Richard Letts http://blog.xcski.com/2004/06/17/what-is-the-matter-with-this-credit-card#comment-276 Richard Letts Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000 http://xcski.com/wordpress/?p=237#comment-276 I used to do that until my first credit card didn't get renewed in time and they cancelled all my online christmas shopping one year. Then I discovered Citicard have virtual account numbers when I phoned them up to get a 'second card for online purchases only'. VANs are useful you can generate one-time numbers (or multiple-time with one merchant) numbers from their website (with individual credit limits too!). Very cool and makes stealing any credit card number I enter into a website useless for any other vendor, or for more than I want. I used to do that until my first credit card didn’t get renewed in time and they cancelled all my online christmas shopping one year. Then I discovered Citicard have virtual account numbers when I phoned them up to get a ’second card for online purchases only’. VANs are useful you can generate one-time numbers (or multiple-time with one merchant) numbers from their website (with individual credit limits too!). Very cool and makes stealing any credit card number I enter into a website useless for any other vendor, or for more than I want.

]]> By: Kevin T. Keith http://blog.xcski.com/2004/06/17/what-is-the-matter-with-this-credit-card#comment-277 Kevin T. Keith Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000 http://xcski.com/wordpress/?p=237#comment-277 MBNA is a huge credit-card clearinghouse - they're the ones behind most of those customized "affiliate" cards everyone offers (university credit cards, political organization credit cards, etc. - they're all really MBNA cards with someone else's logo on them). Can you just get two or three MBNA cards from different sources? Then you could use one as your "aviation only" card, another as your "subscriptions card," another as your "online porn card," etc. You'd get MBNA protection on all of them, but could keep the accounts separate and instantly spot when anything fishy showed up. MBNA is a huge credit-card clearinghouse - they’re the ones behind most of those customized “affiliate” cards everyone offers (university credit cards, political organization credit cards, etc. - they’re all really MBNA cards with someone else’s logo on them).

Can you just get two or three MBNA cards from different sources? Then you could use one as your “aviation only” card, another as your “subscriptions card,” another as your “online porn card,” etc. You’d get MBNA protection on all of them, but could keep the accounts separate and instantly spot when anything fishy showed up.

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