09/23/2009
If you have excellent credit, this is the balance transfer deal for you. The Capital One Platinum Prestige credit card offers 0% financing on balance transfers and purchases through September 2010. That’s twice as long as the six months offered by the best deals from other credit cards, and the interest rate after the introductory period [...]
09/23/2009
Some credit cards offer rewards, incentives, and other perks to customers in exchange for their use of the cards. Depending upon the card company, certain rebates, cash incentives, travel rate reductions, expensive gifts, and more might be dangled in front of the potential cardholder in order to tempt them into accepting the card. Some of the offers are good ones but some are not worth the interest rate you pay for the card. These “reward” cards should be compared very carefully to determine if they are actually worth the rewards they offer.
09/23/2009
Minnesota’s attorney general suing 3 debt-relief companies Until the phone call, Rossie Anderson-Howze didn’t think she needed help negotiating her $12,000 in credit card debt. But when the company promised to cut the retiree’s 12.9 percent interest rate and save her $4,000 or her money back, she agreed to let Moneyworks LLC charge $1,090 to her card. The company failed to deliver on its promises, she said, forcing Anderson-Howze, of St.
09/23/2009
Image via Wikipedia By CANDICE CHOI and EILEEN AJ CONNELLY, AP Personal Finance Writers Candice Choi And Eileen Aj Connelly, Ap Personal Finance Writers – 2 hrs 17 mins ago NEW YORK – As lawmakers prepare to implement sweeping credit card reforms, Bank of America Corp. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. are moving to overhaul overdraft fees and practices that have been criticized industrywide as excessive and harmful to consumers. Bank of America Corp.
09/23/2009
Here’s a financial tip that’s an answer to a letter I recently received. Debbie asks: “We’ve been battling credit cards for most of our married life. We’re finally getting on top of the situation. We’ve paid off almost all of our cards with one left to go. It feels good! It makes me extremely angry to get two and three new offers of credit cards almost every day. I take great joy in tearing all of them up and throwing them away. The minimum payments have gone up.
09/23/2009
Credit Card Companies earn their revenues by charging the cardholders for the services provided to them. Card companies are satisfied if their customers have a good credit rating, but are not happy when the full balance on the card is settled every month. In such cases, they lose their opportunity to earn interest from the customer. They usually waive the interest if the balance is fully paid in each month, but will charge full interest on the entire outstanding balance from the date of purchase, if the total balance is not settled.
09/23/2009
Lora wrote to me through the GetOutOfDebt.org site and asked the following question. If you have a credit or debt question you’d like to ask just use the online form . I’m happy to help you totally for free. Income from the GetOutOfDebt.org site advertising is used to help alleviate poverty . If you would like to help me to help others, there are easy and free things you can do, click here to learn how you can help . “Dear Steve, I am 52 and have not worked since 2004.
09/23/2009
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09/23/2009
What does it take to become a successful investor? Brilliance or Smartness? Neither, Success in investing doesn’t correlate with I.Q. Once you have ordinary intelligence, what you need is the temperament to control the urges that gets other people into trouble in investing. When do you decide to invest in a firm? The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble. We want to buy them when they’re on the operating table. (Mr.
09/23/2009
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September 23rd, 2009
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