Citi Double Cash Credit Card | Should You Get It In 2020? - YouTube

Channel: The TEC Show

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What's going on everybody David here today
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We're gonna talk about the city double cash card
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So the city double cash card, we're going to talk about this card for 2020. We'll see if there are any changes
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This is really a good card for
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When you're just starting out, even if you're not into travel credit cards or anything like this is a cash back card
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But it's a great card to start off with if you want to work with the city ecosystem
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So the first thing I always look at is the annual fee the annual fee on this card is zero
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So there's no annual fee
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So that's good zero annual fee cash back card
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Now looking at some of the other things like the Earned possibility on this card you're looking at it's very simple
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it's like the venture card where you're getting two points for every dollar spent on all purchases across the board and that's
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Unlimited and basically the way that this works so it's a little different than the venture card world
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The venture card will give you two points every dollar spent
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This one will give you one point when you make your purchase and then one point when you pay at least the minimum balance
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So that's how they work this out
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This is I mean, it's you should be paying your credit cards off in full every month
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and so don't even think about just doing the minimum if that's
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What I tell people when it comes to these cards when it comes to rewards credit cards cash back
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Travel travel points and miles and all that stuff
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You'll want to make sure you pay it all off because if you're paying any interest with this card
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You're just paint you're just giving them all these points that you're earning. You're just giving it right back to them
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So you want to make sure you don't fall into the trap and you notice that it says the minimum amount, right?
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You just need to pay the minimum amount. No, you need to pay the full amount
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Okay, whatever posts that's what you need to pay. So
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Now you get two points every dollar spent. So I think that's a real good benefit there
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You also get a zero percent intro APR on
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balance furs for eighteen months now
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I do not recommend doing this unless you absolutely have to
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If you're really trying to pay down a credit card, then it makes sense to do that
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But you should kind of stay away from that
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You don't want to get stuck because you look at the interest on this on these this card
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It can be from 15% to 25% So if there's any situation where you cannot pay that all off
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Whatever that transfer balance is
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Well, then now you're looking at a hefty interest that you need to pay back on the on the card
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So and then again, we're looking at that same situation where you're earning points on the card
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and then you're just giving those points away because
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You're paying all this interest
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So just something to think about make sure you're able to handle that balance transfer before you make a big decision like that
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So now I want to talk a little bit about Redemption
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So the options to redeem
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And this is where the card really shines because in the in the past it was just a cash back card
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right
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So you can do cash back direct deposit or check
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But now you can convert it to point so you can convert it to thank you points, which I think is really good
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So now if I have a city premier card or a city prestige card
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I can transfer my points from the double cash card up to one of those accounts of one of those thank-you points
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Accounts, and now with the thank-you points, I can use the transfer partners in the travel portal
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So that's something that is really good that that that city is now doing it's much like the the chase of freedom and the chase
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Freedom unlimited cards or you can do the same thing
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You can transfer those points up to the chase a fire Reserve and the Chase Sapphire Preferred
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So it's good that that city is now doing that and this is an excellent card for for that
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So that really that really works out
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I mean in my mind, this is a better car than the chase of freedom unlimited
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I still like the chase freedom card only because you get the five
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Five point categories and it rotates so I do like that
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But this is definitely a car that if you do spend a lot
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you don't have to worry where you're spending that money where if it's at a grocery store if it's at the gas station or or
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what-have-you
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You're gonna get two points as long as you make your payments on time some of the other features that they talked about here
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So you have the contactless pay which you're gonna pretty much see on all credit cards now
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Digital wallet so you have that in 24 hour customer service customer service is a key
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That's really big. Especially if you're traveling outside of the country you want to make sure?
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You have that 24 hour
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24/7 customer service. So if you do lose your card or something like that, you can you can call them and then have them
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You add a new card?
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So it's good to see that they have the 24-hour customer service and I'm not I haven't used city in a while
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I do. I did have a couple of city cards. I have one city card right now
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But in my experience in the past when I did have I had the city premier card back in the day?
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Customer service was not that good. So I'm hoping that their customer service is better now
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But yeah, it's definitely good to see that they do have customer service
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24/7 okay. So my overall opinion when it comes to this card. I think it's a great card
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Especially like I was saying earlier if you're a beginner if you're just starting out
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This is a definitely a good card to get it's a good cash back card
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It's a good card to have in your wallet regardless of if you want to travel or not
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So I think it's good for that. I do like the two point
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Categories where you don't have to really think about it. You can just go ahead and spend your money. So that's good
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and then the fact that
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Last year they changed it to now they're working with the with the transfer partners where you can transfer your points up to
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the city premier city procedure I think is an excellent option for
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People especially if you just start out you can get this card
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Use it earn all those those points and then jump up and get the city
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Premier or the city prestige card and you'll have points with it with a double cash card that you can transfer up in
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User for trip. So I just think that's great. But more importantly I want to know what you guys think
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So, please let me know what you think about the double cash card. Do you have the car do you like it?
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