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Different Ways To Reduce Credit Card Debts

First, check your credit card statements and find any needless impulse buys and indulgences that have got your family in this mess. Once you know what you’ve been wasting your money on, you have to eliminate them from your monthly spending habit. You’ll never reduce your debts if you can’t eliminate inessential spending. After identifying unnecessary spending; you need to sort all credit card balances based on the amount and APR. You may not find hard and fast rules on how to target debt repayments, but you can choose one of the following   Read More

March 1, 2010 No Comments

Using Credit Cards To Achieve Debt Relief

We are seduced almost everyday by ads promising a low-interest and even no-interest credit card. Running up debt and then “charging it” — is a typical American way of life, some people even feel almost unpatriotic if they don’t have a credit card, as a significant percentage of US economy is run by consumer debts. We continuously get solicitations in our inbox telling us that we are pre-approved for thousands of dollars worth of credit card package. We see TV spots urging us to purchase a houseful of furniture and appliances with no interest for a one-year credit, or a brand new car with “low interest and no money down”. Sometimes you are allowed to skip the payments for a few months. (more…)

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January 26, 2010 No Comments

How Credit Card Companies Trap Their Customers

It is one of the most profitable businesses for banking industry: credit cards. The nearly magical convenience of these plastic cards encourages our compulsive behaviors. With more than a billion of credit cards in circulation which account for trillions of dollars of consumer spending, the world economy has obviously gone plastic.

Many families use their general-purpose, personal credit cards such as American Express, Discover, Visa and Mastercard to make ends meet; these cards have become discreet lifelines for people in financial straits. But more prudent consumers use plastic strictly for convenience. While it would seem that they — who charge a small fortune each month on their credit cards — are the ideal customers, actually, they are what some in the banking industry call a “deadbeat.” That is because they pay their balance in full each month. The best customers are those who make a minimum payment each month, as a large percentage of the payment goes toward the interest. (more…)