Responsible use of your credit card allows flexibility and
leverage as it helps people manage their money. By using the
principle of interest rates in credit, it allows large and
expensive purchases like buying furniture and appliances.
Payment for these large purchases can be extended over a
specific period to make it more flexible for the credit user.
The credit card company on the other hand is able to earn income
charging interest rates for credit used over a specific period
of time.
Credit card companies use as promotional or marketing strategies
the giving of rewards to their card customers by giving points
for every time they use their credit cards when making
transactions. These reward points can be in a form of free
gifts, appliances, electronic gadgets, cash rewards or travel
miles. The number of points per card transaction may depend on
the amount purchased. For travel point rewards for example, a 1
dollar purchase transaction sometimes equals 1 travel reward
mile. The number of travel miles will usually depend on the
travel destinations, the credit card company's rewards program
and the airline companies they have tied up with in their air
miles points program.
Travel rewards from using credit cards in making purchases are
quantified in air miles. Heavy credit card users are able to
benefit from these programs the most as the huge accumulated
points that they may make may already equal the points
equivalent to one plane ticket. The more purchases a person does
on his credit card, the more points his credit card rewards him
and the person has the options to convert these to travel air
miles.
To determine if the accumulated air miles rewards points a
person has is enough to avail of a plane ticket, lets say flying
domestic within the US, they can do this by checking with their
credit card companies how much air miles they need to accumulate
in order to avail of a plane ticket to their desired
destination. The number of accumulated air miles points on their
card doesn't necessarily equal the actual miles required to make
the trip. In order to determine the actual equivalent of miles
their accumulated miles rewards points from their credit card
purchases, they'll need to check with their credit card hotline
numbers or from their credit card's consumer websites to receive
more detailed information in determining how much actual miles
their accumulated air miles reward points has made, how to claim
them and how to work out the travel arrangements with the
airline company the credit card company has tied up with regards
to the travel rewards promotions.
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