Credit cards are basically trying to incentivise you to spend money, and forget about it just enough that it costs you more than it costs them. A lot of them offer “incentives”, that cost them almost nothing, but give you some level of perceived value. If you take the ones that offer exclusive access to otherwise VIP/Paid areas as an example, it might cost you $100 to get in once, but to the card seller, they can strike a recurring deal that would cost them pennies per client, or they might even be paid to offer the service, as a form of advertising/marketing, in the hopes once you’re in the VIP area, you’ll spend VIP prices on things.
Some of them are also using it to harvest extra data about spending, which they’ll resell through data broking.
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