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Lowest Rate Credit Cards
If you are interested in finding lowest rate credit cards,
it seems as though there are plenty of people around to help
you these days. There are credit card companies that give
you their lists of lowest rate credit cards right off the
bat while there are also consumer websites around that
afford the consumer some protection against companies that
might not have their best interests at heart. There is in
fact so much information available these days about lowest
rate credit cards that it can sometimes be hard to know
where to look and who to trust. Generally speaking, you
should trust but verify. This means that if you have a list
of lowest rate credit cards, go through the list and look
for catches that might make the lower rate a moot point.
A good example of a catch that people get caught by without
realizing it is the fees catch. There are plenty of lowest
rate credit cards offered by banks and credit card companies
that do give you a much lower interest rate, but also have
higher fees in order to compensate for the lower rates. |
These fees may include things like a higher annual fee, although
most credit card consumers nowadays know to look that deep in order
to see if the lowest rate credit cards they are being offered are
nothing but scams. However, credit card companies know that people
look at the annual fee, so they will sometimes try to hide fee
increases in areas like late payments, over limit payments and
rejected payments. Make sure you check the entire fee schedule of
all of the lowest rate credit cards you consider and compare it to
the average schedule the credit card company uses. If the fees are
significantly higher, you'll know that this is probably not a
genuine low rate credit card.
Another trap that people fall into is not really as bad as the fee
trap, but it can be quite a surprise if it catches you unawares.
This is the introductory rate trap and it is one that credit card
companies have been using for a long time. There are many credit
cards in the market that are generally low in terms of their
interest rates, however many cards that are billed as lowest rate
credit cards do not have a permanent low interest rate. They have
what is known as an introductory rate, which is a temporarily low
interest rate that is used by credit card companies to get people to
sign up for a credit card. Typical lowest rate credit cards that
have introductory rates will have a period of 12 months where the
rate is below 10% before it shoots up to the 20% mark that most
credit card interest rates inhabit nowadays. Introductory rates can
be great things if you know about them and use them to your
advantage, but for people that are looking for genuine lowest rate
credit cards, they can be a nasty surprise. |
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