WoW! Here's a great credit card.
You know how stupid I think Student Loan rebate credit cards and Home Mortgage credit cards are. Well, CV Rick has gone out and found something even more stupid.
Introducing a credit card that gives you World of Warcraft points. For every dollar that you charge, you get a WoW point.
Admittedly, I have no idea what a WoW point is or how valuable it is but it seems like it's a game component. You spend real money so that you get game points.
The interest rate is somewhere between 10 - 14% unless you make a late payment or go over your limit. If that happens then in addition to the $35 late payment fee and the $35 over the limit fee, your new interest rate will be 32%. A rate like that really should be illegal. They make is so that if you slip up just once, it's very difficult to get free of their clutches.
I know people that play Wow and I know how addictive it is. I also know how much they quest to get to higher levels. If these points have anything to do with that, these cards are going to sell like hotcakes.
The people at Visa are smart. WoW is an addiction. That's an easy way to score some money. Piggyback on an addiction. It won't be long now until we have other great cards available to us, like the Marlboro Visa and the Budweiser MasterCard.
wow, so cool, gotta get me one.
Posted by: Rhiia | May 07, 2007 at 05:24 PM
I've gotta get some products up on the site that Rhiia can buy with that snazzy new WoW card.
Posted by: CV Rick | May 07, 2007 at 08:12 PM
Rhiia, I think they have 16 different designs so maybe you should get all 16. You could use the one that best matches your mood at the time.
Posted by: Success Warrior | May 07, 2007 at 09:58 PM
Rick, there must be tons of WoW products out there. What could be cooler than buying your WoW stuff with a Wow card?
Posted by: Success Warrior | May 07, 2007 at 09:59 PM
For the Horde!!!
Posted by: Rhiia | May 08, 2007 at 02:50 PM
Would I be safe in assuming that we just witnessed some form of WoW geek-speak? =)
Posted by: Success Warrior | May 08, 2007 at 03:26 PM
I don't know . . .
But you're #1 on BuzzFeed for this topic. http://www.buzzfeed.com/buzz/World_of_Warcraft_Visa
(I submitted your link yesterday, by the way)
Posted by: CV Rick | May 08, 2007 at 06:12 PM
I saw that earlier today. That's pretty cool. Thanks for the submission!
Posted by: Success Warrior | May 08, 2007 at 08:00 PM
you're welcome. It'll increase exposure. On my Kurt Vonnegut post that was featured on BuzzFeed, I got a couple hundred extra hits.
Posted by: CV Rick | May 08, 2007 at 08:15 PM
Well, I do like exposing myself.
Posted by: Success Warrior | May 08, 2007 at 09:25 PM