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...learned my lesson, because someone I didn't know had already stolen my identity. At first I just kind of vaguely noticed that I wasn't getting my American Express bills anymore, which at the time just seemed like a good thing. Then I got a call from the AmEx fraud department asking me about some charges on my Optima card. I had never used my Optima card. It's just one of many credit cards I ordered because I got frequent-flyer miles for signing up. I would agree to just about anything for miles...
...GULP" BANKING A money order with your Slurpee? 7-Eleven is joining the convenience banking crowd. The c-store chain has partnered with Amex and Western Union to offer banking services through Web-enabled kiosks called V.coms They not only function as ATMs but also allow you to cash a personal check, wire money and pay utility bills instantly. V.coms are being rolled out first in Texas and Florida, but expect to see them in all 5,300 nationwide stores by early next year...
...deals seem to be more elusive than ever. Recent research into air travel trends by the credit card company American Express suggests that those rock-bottom $7 or $15 tickets, available (to the fortunate few) when budget airlines were battling for market share, might be gone forever. Matthew Davis, Amex's director of consulting services, says the low-cost operators are under increasing pressure from fuel-price hikes and increased landing fees. "We have already seen the fare gap between traditional and low-cost airlines narrowing," he says. Budget operators like easyJet and Go, British Airways' no-frills subsidiary, dispute...
...assistant to president and chief executive of American Express; in Greenwich, Conn. In 1960, when the charge card was two years old and losing money, he engineered the celebrity-packed "Do you know me?" campaign (and later the "Don't leave home without it" slogan), turning the card into AmEx's most valuable product...
...pretty good--free Snapple, a service that delivers cake when it's someone's birthday, doing nothing the entire week except the three hours it takes to write this column. But now I see through their attempts to buy my soul's work through cheap trinkets like a corporate AmEx card and health benefits. Yes, we writers, we conjurers of phrases, we have been used like a...no, I will expend metaphors for the Man no longer. Not since I learned that the Writers Guild of America has issued a list of demands and will go on strike if they...