You may have thought that you can buy just about anything using a credit card, right? Well, believe it or not there are places where your credit card becomes nothing more than a piece of plastic with no real use. Casinos are legal but using your credit cards to buy chips may not be the right way to go about doing things as most states in the US have gambling rules that forces casinos to say no to credit cards. No more online roulette gambling for you! You will also have a tough time trying to buy stocks using credit cards as most of the brokerage firms say no to credit card purchases.
The next bit of info will break a few manly hearts as you cannot even get yourself a lap dance using a credit card. Well, by now most of the guys out there will have found the nearest dumpster for their credit cards. American Express has come down big time on players using their credit cards to purchase online pornography by banning the usage of their credit cards for this purpose. This is not the only field in which you will find an American Express card to be of no use as the same goes for the purchase of marijuana. Another important task that you cannot perform using your credit cards these days is paying your mortgage. Online gambling using your credit card is a big no-no while buying a lottery ticket is also close to impossible if you are using your credit card and you certainly cannot make donations to WikiLeaks using most of the credit cards that are available out there.