What is your credit card rate?
I do not carry a balance, but checked it anyway and it was 27%!!!!!!! Holy *****!!!!!! It is with MBNA. Glad I have a $0.00 balance. What rate do you have?
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Visa with Sikorsky credit union. I don't know the rate it is very low, like under 5%. I only carry a very small balance sometimes.
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Sikorsky as in the aircraft company??
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Howdy CJ,
I have had a visa card with mbna for a long time ad the rate kept going up untill it got to 20.9%. It took me a year to find a deal where someone would take the balance transfer I wanted. Now I have an American Express card with 2.9% on the life of the transfer. |
I found a great site called creditcards.com
Lots of info there. |
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Tell them you have offers from other companies for a much lower rate, like 8.9 or something like that. .02 |
I guess what fired me up is that since I do not carry a balance I only checked my payment info. When I called them today MBNA told me that they have been raising it a few times a year and that I should look at my statements closer. I told her I was closing my account, they asked why as if she did not know it was the interest rate issue, then she asks me if I want to open up an equity line with them. just for kicks and giggles I did a searcg on MBNA under, "MBNA sucks" and other variations and came up with web sites from former disgruntled customers. Wow!
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I am caught off guard that they have been changing my rate without me knowing. After going over my agreement I found that they sent a notice basically stating that they could rasie the interest rate up to any limit without telling me. If I do not agree to these terms I would have to notify them in writing. If I do not agree, they may cancel my card. I guess the point I am making is that these are very unethical tactics in my opinion.
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I would cancel any card that bumped my rate that high....My highest card is 15%...and I don't have to fight to keep them that low.
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CJ, call them and ask them to drop the rate. I did a few months ago om my 2 credit cards and they both dropped them by more than half, I think one is 6.5% and the other is 8%. I'm letting the company that is charging 8% get away with it because they have given me an outragous limit, if I ever get into a bind the sky is the limit.
Informing consumers of a rate change with a junk mail looking envelope and letter is the newest tactic of the CC companies. |
bad idea to carry an balance......if you can't pay the bill in full when it arrives you seriously need to consider do I really need this.
If you avoid carrying a balance the loan sharks (credit card companies) won't take you for everything you have. |
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They tried to bump my rate a couple of months ago. I called and did the lower it or close my account thing and got an extra 3% knocked off (from where it was supposed to be). Watch those bastards, and never let them get away with anything. |
I "fired" MBNA years ago. Them bastids are crooks.
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Every last G'damn One Of Them |
Howdy All,
There are times you need to pay for something. By the time my dog's broken leg healed it cost about $3,000 and then I had other vet bills so instead of paying off te balance that was on there it had doubled. Sometimes things happen. |
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