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Credit Card Bills Deliver a Shock
Portland Oregonian ^
| 12/05/2007
| Laurie Kellman
Posted on 12/10/2007 12:34:11 PM PST by ex-Texan
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To: Graybeard58
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posted on
12/10/2007 12:52:36 PM PST
by
dakine
To: ex-Texan
I use my two credit cards for anything and everything. But I also pay them off in full at the end of the month. That way I get the rewards but not the high interest rates.
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posted on
12/10/2007 12:52:38 PM PST
by
AlaskaErik
(I served and protected my country for 31 years. Democrats spent that time trying to destroy it.)
To: knuthom
"There is only one good way to use credit cards. I use my credit card for everything, but I pay in full every month. I never carry a balance. I have always done it this way, even back when we had little money."Same here. The credit card companies hate us. They consider us freeloaders.
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posted on
12/10/2007 12:52:46 PM PST
by
JZelle
To: Graybeard58
I’ll be darn. I thought I was the only one who did that.
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posted on
12/10/2007 12:52:58 PM PST
by
Sue Perkick
(And I hope that what I’ve done here today doesn’t force you to have a negative opinion of me….)
To: dakine
I don’t even have a credit card. Why bother when I’m banking such coin filing bankruptcies for people who can’t or won’t pay their predators?
Who cares what the predators do, or what the law allows? I don’t care because I’m raking it in!
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posted on
12/10/2007 12:53:06 PM PST
by
Unknowing
(Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.)
To: ex-Texan
Personal Finance needs to be taught at every high school. It’s amazing even how many college graduates don’t know the first thing about personal finance.
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posted on
12/10/2007 12:53:11 PM PST
by
dfwgator
To: Graybeard58
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posted on
12/10/2007 12:53:44 PM PST
by
Obadiah
To: knuthom
Using one credit card for everything and paying it off every month gives you a nice budgetary paper trail, doesn’t it?
It’s what I do too.
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posted on
12/10/2007 12:53:49 PM PST
by
MrB
(You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
To: dakine
Everyone on FR has above average children Don't leave out the grand children, for those of us who have them.
I will have about 12 of them at my house for Christmas. I already can't wait for them to go home.
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posted on
12/10/2007 12:54:20 PM PST
by
Graybeard58
( Remember and pray for SSgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
To: ex-Texan
Ok. She has a $7,000 credit card balance.
She pays an $8.00/month convenience fee to pay through the internet.
So she is voluntarily paying 1.5% extra, every month, just to save a stamp. And now she is whining because her interest rate went from 18% to 24.5%.
Some people are just too stupid to be permitted to handle money.
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posted on
12/10/2007 12:54:29 PM PST
by
gridlock
(Recycling is the new Religion.)
To: Sue Perkick
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posted on
12/10/2007 12:54:40 PM PST
by
Obadiah
To: ex-Texan
Unless the contract stated that the company reserves the right to raise rates if the user goes below some FICO number, then this is nonsense.
It sickens me that I have to agree with democrats.
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posted on
12/10/2007 12:54:41 PM PST
by
Dianna
To: Obadiah
Discover keeps calling me because
I have the card, and haven’t made a charge on it for 6 months or more. They keep trying to offer 0%, etc. So far I haven’t needed that.
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posted on
12/10/2007 12:55:25 PM PST
by
MrB
(You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
To: ThisLittleLightofMine
We pay our cards off each month and have actually stopped using them at all because I find their practices so distasteful. I think if any area needs reform it would be credit card companies. They are a bunch thieves constantly changing their terms, they are predators and masters at marketing their evil. You know - there is a free market out there. There are plenty of no annual fee and low interest rate credit cards you can sign up for. Credit Unions are a good place to start. Money Magazine every issue lists about 10 of the very best national cards. If someone signs up for Discover and then complains about it - it is a pretty easy fix WITHOUT THE GOVERNMENT "helping"...
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posted on
12/10/2007 12:55:36 PM PST
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: Graybeard58
“...I already can’t wait for them to go home.”
HAHAHA!! Two chuckles from ya’....thanks!
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posted on
12/10/2007 12:55:53 PM PST
by
dakine
To: dfwgator
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posted on
12/10/2007 12:55:58 PM PST
by
RockinRight
(Bill Clinton + Jimmuh Carter + Pat Robertson + Gomer Pyle = Mike Huckabee)
To: Obadiah
but having said that, Discover Card is the WORST credit card company out there They really are the lowest of the low, and one of the most devious.
To: ThisLittleLightofMine
I don’t understand the premise of the whole thing. As I understand it the CC companies run a credit report see that someone’s credit may have deteriorated and then raise their rates. That seems like nothing more than making the situation worse by making it that much harder for them to regain good credit.
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posted on
12/10/2007 12:56:03 PM PST
by
nomorelurker
(keep flogging them till morale improves)
To: Graybeard58
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posted on
12/10/2007 12:56:08 PM PST
by
weegee
(If Bill Clinton can sit in on Hillary's Cabinet Meetings then GWBush should ask to get to sit in too)
To: dakine
Yep, no chance that conservatives on a conservative website would be more likely to be financially responsible than the general public.
/sarc
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posted on
12/10/2007 12:56:54 PM PST
by
MrB
(You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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