06:09:44 AM Thursday, February 28, 2008
Entrusting your child with a credit card to manage on his or her own is a risky thing to do. Especially if your kid has not even graduated high school yet. Despite the fact that most US teens get their first job at 13-14 and know the value of money, managing a credit card account involves much more.Giving financial education to a child is just a must-do for every parent. But explaining evasive credit card lingo and giving your own example of credit card use, particularly if your credit history is not flawless, is not always effective. Letting your kid deal with a real plastic under your guidance? That is a smart choice.View full story Comments (0)...
06:44:31 AM Thursday, March 13, 2008
As the competition on the credit card market is keen, credit card companies, fighting for customers, develop new strategies of attracting new clients and keeping loyal regular ones. Card issuers design new enticing credit card offers and introduce new services. Some of them seem to be very beneficial at a first glance. But before signing up for one of them you are to find out as much as possible about it.Have you ever heard of a "skip-a-payment" service? Let us take a closer look at this service and figure out whether it is worth signing up for or not.View full story Comments (1)...
05:52:43 AM Monday, March 24, 2008
When you are out on the shopping spree, you are free to buy anything you like. The only limiter you have is the amount of money available. When it comes to choosing the right credit card for you your major limiting factor is your credit score. And now your credit rating becomes more important than ever.Credit card issuers tighten credit card requirements. The mortgage crisis that broke out last year left credit card companies and banks in great money losses. Nearly all financial institutions had to face credit delinquencies. And now, in order to secure themselves against more possible losses, banks and companies are very particular about their clients and their creditworthiness.View full story Comments (1)...
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I am looking for a great balance transfer offer, however I see that even though there are lots of 0% APR offers for balance transfer, there is still a BT fee of 3% on most of the offers. I'm looking to transfer $6,000, which would mean a $180 fee for me. Is there a way to avoid the fee? Are there offers with no BT fees and 0% APR on BT for 12 months?
Answer:We would like to suggest you not to hunt after balance transfer credit card deals without fees. The best balance transfer offers usually have 12 months introductory period with 0% APR. There are some offers without fees, but they have much shorter introductory period. We advise you More Card by Discover. This card has 12 months 0% APR intro period, no annual fee, low APR on purchases and more!
August 12, 2008
Credit consumers, who want to highlight their financial standing, can find credit products that will fit their interests. There are the so-called status-credit cards on the market. Customers can choose silver, gold, platinum or black credit cards. All of them give certain privileges and that very status to their owners.
What is interesting, you do not even need to have excellent or good credit and really high income to get one of the status credit cards. They are available to bad credit owners as well. Let's take a closer look at Gold credit cards. Learn more about features, options and services that Gold credit cards offer.
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August 01, 2008
Shopping is an integral part of our lives. Some people love it; others cannot stand hanging around stores in the search of necessary items. But still, everybody shop. You wonder what can be so irritating about going to a supermarket, a mall or just a grocery store? Aside from an inborn aversion to the process of shopping, there is one thing that can lay a bad trip on even the most avid shopaholic.
Imagine, you come back home after another shopping spree, unpack your purchases and find out that one of them is defected or damaged. This can really bring you down. And not in all cases you will manage to exchange the item or get your money back. At this point, a credit card deal with consumer protection on credit card purchases is a good choice to make.
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July 08, 2008
The Federal Reserve recently proposed to take measures in order to eliminate unfair credit card practices performed by credit card companies and banks. The Fed also suggested toughening rules and regulations for lenders. Hidden credit card fees, unreasonable interest rate hikes, unfair charges, aggressive anti-delinquency policy and other abusive credit card practices are promised to be banned.
This would definitely bring a relief to credit card holders. But how will creditors tolerate such a policy? Banks and credit companies still trying to make up for the losses caused by credit crisis and trying to survive in the conditions of economic recession, are upset with such Fed's moves, to put it mildly. But whose prayers - lender' or borrowers' - will be heard by the Fed?
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