These programs are called "affinity" credit cards, and the issuers like them because they're supposed to bring in customers. The MBNA site explains affinity marketing, which is what this really is: getting the affinity organization to give out free advertising. They give you money, but only if you do all the work to bring in the customers. The idea that there is "no addditional cost to you" is a bit misleading.

I think the idea is interesting, and on my own I'm looking into the idea just because I'm curious how it works. It's unlikely that they'll think The Perl Review will be worthy. If anyone else is pursuing this for TPF, please let me know so one of us doesn't waste our time. I'll report what I find, but that requires talking to a person at the bank and them deciding I'm not a crank.

I think it would be interesting to partner with a card that actually uses Perl. I know MasterCard had some Perl stuff going on.

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brian d foy <brian@stonehenge.com>

In reply to Re: thoughts on funding for perl fundation by brian_d_foy
in thread thoughts on funding for perl fundation by Qiang

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