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Penny auction site YouNeverLose.com takes the risk out of paying to bid: Crazy as it sounds, you "gamble" without the possibility of losing your money.

Savers have taken it on the chin for years, with banks paying almost nothing on checking and savings accounts while charging big fees. So when a new financial website offered a 6% interest rate on an insured savings account, it got a lot of attention.

CardHub.com recently put five of the most well-known prepaid card issuers under the microscope to see how useful their products are based on fees and features. Which offers the best deal? The answer might surprise you. But the real question is should you use a prepaid card at all.

The Treasury Department is launching a pilot program to deliver tax refunds via prepaid debit cards rather than checks. The plan aims to cut down on the administrative costs associated with checks and to help lower-income taxpayers without bank accounts, The Wall Street Journal said. The...

Here we go again. Just last month, we told you how the Kardashian-branded prepaid debit card -- the one with a nearly $100 fee for a year's worth of use -- was yanked after an indignant attorney general threatened to open an investigation. Although this card is gone, the marketplace today resembles...

Prepaid cards for kids hawked by a reality-show personality who became famous because of a sex tape: What could be wrong with that? Kim Kardashian has teamed with a financial services company to offer the Kardashian Prepaid MasterCard, which is being peddled to kids as young as 13 and their...

Depending on who you ask, prepaid calling cards are either a tremendous rip-off or a fantastic money saver -- but based on an ongoing government crackdown against shady operators, lots of customers are getting far less than they paid for. In 2007, the Federal Trade Commission created a joint...

Soon after WalMart announced it will pay employees without direct-deposit banking via debit cards, Consumers Union, the organization that publishes Consumers Reports, came out with this in-depth review of "prepaid cards" and why they suck...I mean, why they're "second-tier banking account...

AOL Money & Finance writer and editor Zac Bissonnette is a sophomore at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and an expert on getting a great education without going broke. Got a college question? Leave a comment and he'll get back to you!The Wall Street Journal recently took a look...