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The payment option is booming among online holiday shoppers this year. But like any form of credit, it comes with drawbacks.

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There are a lot of choices to make when you’re car shopping. Beyond choosing a vehicle, you’ll need to select a lender or decide how you want to pay if you don’t want a loan. You might think that all ...

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A partnership between the financial services company Klarna and food delivery service DoorDash will allow customers to pay for food or grocery delivery using a "Pay in 4" model, also known as buy now, ...

Evan Zimmer has been writing about finance for years. After graduating with a journalism degree from SUNY Oswego, he wrote credit card content for Credit Card Insider (now Money Tips) before moving to ...

Klarna, Affirm, and other companies are pushing "buy now, pay later" sales models. And consumers are taking advantage.

Amazon’s Buy with Prime program, which lets shoppers with a Prime membership purchase items from third-party stores and check out using their Amazon account, is getting a new payment option: PayPal.

It was the global pandemic that catalyzed the contactless ways of payment around the world. As physical stores shut down, digital payment methods became the norm with shoppers looking for a less ...

Katherine Watt is a former CNET Money writer focusing on mortgages, home equity and banking. She previously wrote about personal finance for NextAdvisor. Based in New York, Katherine graduated summa ...