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by e40 3713 days ago
Here's my trick: use a virtual credit card number (which is safer, anyway, since you don't expose the # of your original CC), and revoke it when you want to cancel. Or, make a VCC# with a $ limit. I don' t know if anyone other than Citibank has them anymore. They are fantastic.
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Bank of America has them; their Apple Pay support is built on them. You can create one directly via their online banking interface, although it's pretty deeply buried and (IIRC) requires Flash, which is weird.
Citi used to have this with their DoubleCash card. It's now missing from their website. Looks like BofA is the only ones doing this now :<
Good to know. This is a phenomenal feature and I'd like to see more banks offer it.