Video: The Credit Card Game in the US vs. Canada

For Canadian points collectors, once you’ve reached a certain level of familiarity with the offers we have here in Canada, your focus naturally expands into the US credit card scene as well. As you do so, you’ll need to understand the key differences between the credit card game in the US and Canada, in order to ensure you’re able to optimize on both sides of the border.

That’s what we cover in this week’s video. We talk about the relative strength of credit card offers on both sides of the border, as well as the different treatment of business credit cards (which, in the US, do not report to your personal credit bureaus) and authorized user cards (which, in the US, do show up on an authorized user’s credit profile).

Without further ado, then, you can watch the video below:

 

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5 Comments
  1. Alex

    Hey Ricky,

    Are these Cobalt "authorized user" cards you show on 8:23min?
    All those users "reside" at the same address where you live?

    1. Ricky YVR

      “Indeed.”

  2. Mitch

    Uhhh can we talk about how many authorized user cards you have? Oh my god!

    1. Ricky YVR

      All thanks to a generous promo that’s been around a few times over the past year or so where it was hugely beneficial to add AUs 🙂

  3. Teddy

    Good job!

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