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Why This Boring Fidelity Credit Card is Taking Over

Naam Wynn · 2,395 words · 12 min read · EN-ORIG

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Most people look at the Fidelity credit card and think it is boring. It earns a flat 2% cash back, has no annual fee, and there's nothing flashy about it. So, they scroll right past it and grab a card with a shiny metal design and a big sign up bonus instead. That is a

mistake. This quiet little card does things that cards charging hundreds of dollars a year cannot touch. And there's one specific place where this so-called flat 2% card quietly pays you out 6% and most people carry it and have no idea that it is even there. By the end of this video, you'll know three things.

You will know the perks hiding on this card that you almost never see on a free card. You will know one of the redemption mistakes that is quietly cutting people rewards in half without even noticing. And you will know the single move that turns this plain 2% card into a tool that can build you real

wealth over time. So, let me show you exactly how it works. On the surface, the Fidelity Rewards Visa Signature card is simple. It pays no annual fee and you earn an unlimited 2% cash back on everything you buy. There's no categories to track, no spending caps to worry about, and no buttons to click

every three months to turn on your bonus. You just swipe and you earn the same 2% every single time. That alone makes it a solid card. The part that surprises people is everything Fidelity packed on on top of that flat 2%. Remember that 6% I just mentioned? This is where it lives. When you book a hotel

or a rental car through Fidelity's travel portal, this card pays you back 6% instead of two. A lot of people do not even know that Fidelity has a travel portal, but it does. And if you book travel there, your earnings triple. Those travel points come with a catch though. It is the same quiet trap that

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hands the average card holder back half of everything that they earn. And most people walk right into it without ever noticing. So, now let me walk you through the perks because this is where this card really punches above its price tag. First, you get a $100 credit for TSA PreCheck or Global Entry. This is a

program that lets you skip the long airport security line. Cards that give you this credit usually charge you anywhere between 95 to almost $400 a year. And the Fidelity card gives it to you for free. Second, this card has no foreign transaction fees. And that matters more than it sounds. A lot of

the popular cashback cards charge you an extra 3% every time that you buy something in another country. So, if you take one of those cards on a trip overseas, your 2% rewards turns into a loss. The Fidelity card charges nothing extra abroad. You can use it in Paris the same way that you would use it at

your corner store back home. Third, this is a Visa Signature card. That label usually shows up on travel cards that cost real money each year. It comes with extras like access to a luxury hotel program that gets you room upgrades, free breakfast, a fuel credit, and late checkout when you book at certain

hotels. It also comes with some rental car coverage built into it. Now, here's a part that I really want you to notice. Most lenders start with a card with great benefits and then slowly take them away over years. Fidelity has done the opposite. They started with a plain cashback card and then they've been

adding to it. So, it tells you this card is likely to get better over time and not worse. The perks are great, but the perks are not the reason why this card is taking over. The real reason is that it comes down to how you cash out your rewards. And this is exactly where most

people slip up. This is something that's quietly costing people a lot of their cashback. The Fidelity card lets you redeem your rewards a few different ways. And some of the ways secretly hand off half of what your rewards are actually worth. So, let me explain. So, every dollar that you earn earns you

points. When you cash those points out the right way, each point is worth a full penny, which is a true 2% back. But, the card also allows you to redeem those points for gift cards for or products like electronics. And when you do that, your points are often worth only half a penny each. That means you

just threw away half of your rewards without realizing it. So, picture two people who earn the same rewards. The first person redeems for a gift card that gets $50 of value. The second person cashes out the right way and gets $100 of value for the exact same spending. It's the same card, the same

effort, but just double the money. The only difference is which button that you press. So, the right way is simple. You just send your cashback straight into your Fidelity account, and it gives you the full value every single time. For everything else, like the gift cards or the merchandise, this is where people

hand back half of what they earned. So, I would avoid those options if you can. Now, the best part is that you can put this whole thing on autopilot. You can turn on automatic redemption one time, and from then on, Fidelity sweeps the rewards into your account at the end of every month. You don't have to remember

to do anything. Pretty much every swipe that you do quietly turns into money working for you in the background. That automatic piece is what makes this card so simple. A few dollars of cash back sounds like it's nothing, but what it slowly turns into is the real reason of why people think this is the smartest 2%

card that you can carry. If you run a business and you have a card that earns you cashback on every dollar, then you want to be putting on as many of your business bills on the card as you possibly can. The problem is that a lot of people that you pay do not take

cards. Your landlord wants a check, your contractor wants a bank transfer, and your supplier only sends old invoices. So, those big payments never touch your card. That is the gap that today's sponsor, Melio, fills. Melio is a bill pay tool built for small businesses. You add the vendor that you need to pay, you

choose how to pay them, and then you schedule it. Here's the clever part. You can pay using your credit card with a small fee, even if the person on the other end does not take cards. Melio then sends them a check or bank deposit, however they want it. They do not even need to have a Melio account to get

paid. The real win here is the cash flow. Your vendor gets paid on time, but the cash does not leave your pocket until your card's statement is due, which can be up to 45 days later. That breathing room is huge when you are running a business and timing of your money matters. On top of that, Melio has

a free plan that you can start on, and it gives you a set number of free bank transfers each month. If you need more, there are paid plans that you can move up on depending on what your business needs. It also syncs up with QuickBooks, Xero, and NetSuite, so you're not typing everything in twice. So, sign up for

free and try it for yourself. Go to the link down in the description, or you can scan this QR code and schedule your first payment today. All right, so let me get back to the Fidelity card and show you how it really stacks up against other big 2% cards out there. The question that I get most often is which

2% card people should actually carry. Three cards come up every single time as a main competition. So, let me go through them one by one. First is the city double cash. It is a no annual fee card that also gives you 2% back, but it splits that 2% into two parts. You get

1% when you buy something and the other 1% only when you pay your bill off. It also hits you with a 3% foreign fee abroad. The Fidelity card gives you the full 2% right away and charges you nothing overseas. Second is the Capital One Venture X. This is generally a great card, but it costs us almost $400 a

year. You do get nice travel perks for that annual fee, but a lot of people are realizing that if you strip away the travel stuff, you are basically paying $400 for a 2% card. The Fidelity card gives you the same 2% for $0 a year. For someone who wants a simple cash back

card without a fee, this is an easy call. Third is the newer Robinhood card and I'm going to be honest with you here. On pure math, the Robinhood card actually wins. It pays 3% back instead of 2% even after you subtract the yearly cost, 3% beats 2% once you spend enough to cover that fee. You might be

wondering why not everybody is running to the Robinhood card. Now, there are two reasons. The first is trust. Fidelity is a company that has managed money for decades and holds on trillions of dollars. Robinhood is a much newer name and a lot of people are simply not ready to park their money there

long-term yet. The second reason is the ecosystem. Most people who want this kind of card already have a retirement or savings sitting at Fidelity. Keeping everything in one place with a company that you already trust is worth a lot. So, I'm not going to tell you that Fidelity card wins on raw numbers

because that would not be true, but it does win for most regular people for different reason. And that reason is the part that makes the whole card click. Now, here's where this boring 2% card stops being boring. When you cash rewards into a Fidelity account, you do not have to have it sitting there as

cash. You can have that money invested automatically. And once your rewards are invested, they do not sit at 2%. They grow. So, let me show you some real numbers. The average American spends a little bit over $2,800 a month on the kind of purchases that you will put on a credit card. At 2%, that comes out to be

around $576 in rewards every single year. Now, imagine if you do not spend that $576. Instead, every year you let it invested into a simple low-cost fund that tracks the whole stock market. I'm going to use 7% average yearly return for this example, which is a common long-term estimate after you account for

inflation. Returns do go up and down from year to year, so this is just an estimate, not a promise, okay? So, when you let those rewards grow year after year, something interesting happens. Your 2% slowly stops being 2% after about a decade of investing your cash back, that growth on your money pushes

your real rate of return past 3% on every dollar that you spend. Keep that going for a couple of more years, and that number keeps climbing. Your plain 2% card then becomes to a 3% card, then a 4% card, and higher. Not because the card changed, but just because rewards have been working in the market the

whole time. Here's the part that matters even more than the math. Most people are honestly pretty bad at saving and investing. Life gets busy, the money that was supposed to go into saving ends up spent. This card fixes that problem for you. It takes the rewards that you would have blown on a gift card and

quietly invests them for you for your future self every single month without you even having to think about it. It turns the rewards that usually disappears into an asset that sticks around. That is the whole reason why this card is taking over. Now, I want to be fair with you because this card is

not for everyone. If you love to travel and you enjoy playing the points game, chasing big signup bonuses, and booking fancy flights, this card is probably not your main card. The Fidelity card does not let you transfer points to airlines, and it does not try to. It's built for a different kind of person. This card is

for the person who just wants a simple card that they never have to babysit. The person would rather see their money quietly grow in the background than spend their weekends tracking bonus categories. If this sounds like you, then this might be the one of the best cards that you can carry, and it will do

its job whether you watch it closely or completely forget about it. So, this is why this boring little Fidelity card has quietly became one of the smartest cards that you can keep in your wallet. But, here's the thing that I didn't tell you at the start of this video. This card is only as powerful as the account that

you're sending the rewards to. And most people are setting that part up wrong or they don't set it up at all, which means that all of that automatic investing that we talk about actually never happens for them. So, before you go and get this card, watch this video next. I'll walk you through the exact Fidelity

account that makes this card work the way it's supposed to work step-by-step so rewards actually start growing at the day that you hit your account. So, click it. I'll see you over there.