Originally Posted by biggestbopper
Just saw an offer from Citibank Aadvantage MasterCard offering a reduced "convenience" fee of 1.99% on FEDERAL tax payments (reduced from the "standard" (wonder who set the "standard") fee of 2.49%. Valid to April 17, 2006 for payments made through
www.officialpayments.com/caoffer.jsp. User must be primary cardholder or authorized user (darn it, I wanted to pay my taxes with someone else's card). Offer doesn't say you have to have received the offer, i.e., apparently not targeted.
Personally, I wonder about the value of paying 2% extra in taxes just to get some miles. I guess a month or so of float is worth something, maybe, to be generous, 0.3%.
I try to maintain a rule to pay nothing extra to get miles.
So, if you could buy say 100K miles on your favorite carrier right now for $1,250 (1.25 cpm), you wouldn't do it? For $1,000? For $750? They just couldn't be cheap enough to whet your appetite?
Your personal "rule to pay nothing extra to get miles" may mean that you are missing out on some very good deals.