Tag: credit cards
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January 26, 2008 05:32 PM EST --
There are people STILL in jail and will be there a long time longer for being loan sharks. But they broke the law by charging less interest than credit cards are now charging people today. . . .
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June 17, 2007 02:45 AM EDT --
If you don't you're probably losing money. Not a month goes by that I don't find a mistake. Somebody charges me for a service I didn't get. I ordered something but never . . .
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May 07, 2008 07:29 AM EDT --
got this in an e-mail and figured I should share...
Be sure to read Scene 3
SCENE 1.
This is a new one.
People sure stay busy trying to cheat us, don't . . .
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August 13, 2008 12:34 AM EDT --
Do You Remember?
by Marilyn Mackenzie
Do you remember full service gas stations? Or ones that had both full service and self-serve? And how the gas prices were . . .
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October 05, 2008 03:39 PM EDT --
I don't own a credit card. I've never owned one...and neither has my husband. We believe that if we don't have the money to spend - then we cannot spend it.
Now that does . . .
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October 18, 2008 08:10 PM EDT --
"Dashing through the dough..." It sounds a lot like a Christmas song doesn't it?
As the weather turns cooler, our thoughts tend to naturally turn to the holidays. As the economy . . .
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November 30, 2008 06:59 PM EST --
Any advise will be appreciated. Thanks.
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April 03, 2009 09:29 PM EDT --
Make sure you check the interest rate. they raised ours since the last statement from 8.99% to 15.25 %. we are never late paying. Hubby is going to call them and ask what the heck is going on.. . . .
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November 21, 2009 11:04 AM EST --
Senate Republicans blocked a Democratic effort to immediately freeze increases in credit card interest rates, fees and finance charges.
Shortly after Democrats passed credit card reform legislation . . .
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February 22, 2008 08:40 PM EST --
The phone rings and your cooking dinner. You answer the phone. It's a recording offering to lower your interest rates on "only one" of your credit cards. The voice offers . . .
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December 03, 2008 10:18 AM EST --
New ID Scanners at Borders Raise Privacy Alarm
Here in Canada, the banks are issuing RFID enabled credit/debit cards that you don't have to swipe through a readet (tap cards) and you just need to . . .
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January 22, 2009 11:57 AM EST --
I had a very disturbing thing happen a couple months ago that I would never have imagined would happen. I was running a hefty balance on one of my credit cards so I was trying to use it very . . .
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April 23, 2009 09:58 PM EDT --
With more than six million people out of work and receiving unemployment benefits, it is no wonder that more and more people are being forced to use their credit cards to help buy groceries . . .
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May 04, 2009 02:09 PM EDT --
As I was paying a credit card bill (Sears Mastercard) the other day, just out of curiosity I read the back of the statement. Lot's of fine print there, but there was one thing in particular . . .
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October 28, 2009 09:54 AM EDT --
The credit card industry's latest attempt to bilk customers out of money may end up costing them the bank.
By Roberta Seldon
Will 2010 Mark The End Of The Credit Card Industry?
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October 27, 2006 09:36 AM EDT --
Twenty-seven years ago when I got married, I was an optimistic young bride. In my eyes, love was all that we needed to survive in marriage. I saw money as being unimportant. It just wasn't . . .
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October 03, 2007 02:15 AM EDT --
It is one am and i just found out that a credit card I have had for years and carry a small balance on has an interest rate of 22%. When did that happen? I have two others at 11.9 and . . .
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April 21, 2009 04:36 PM EDT --
It's time again for this month's debt ticker and review!
I will admit thanks to Citi card losing a payment, double crediting us and over all being a pain we had a tough month. Savings . . .
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September 23, 2009 10:06 AM EDT --
Marketplace's Small Town Hall posed financial questions to eight kids and share a series of seven revealing videos. This one struck me as particularly interesting, because it was so clearly a debate . . .
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June 11, 2007 03:08 PM EDT --
There is nothing worse than credit card debt. I am working so hard right now to get myself out of it. Like most people, I never meant to get into it, but life happened and as things often do, it got away . . .
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