When I saw the original recommendation for the PayPal card, it was not clear to me that it featured the outgoing Double Cash features. It does link to the main MasterCard benefits page, but the PayPal page only highlights the ID theft protection and EMV features. Marketing would want to advertise the other features if they were offered. It is slightly misleading as is, but I think Edgar ignored the big picture because he really wanted the card to be something it is not.

Thanks for clarifying, and thanks for being on the lookout for a card that can be what the Double Cash once was.

Edgar replies: Mark, to be clear, I called the Synchrony customer service folks twice to confirm that the card DID come with all those benefits AND that as far as they knew the company was not about drop them.