On Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:02:54 -0400, Goomba >
wrote:

>sf wrote:
>
>> How do you think they got that way? They're the same ones who get an
>> "interest free" credit card, transfer their dept from other cards over
>> and then add new charges to the credit card... ignorant.
>
>Ignorant?

and naive.

>Consumer information is readily available. What gives them the
>right to remain ignorant? And many weren't at all ignorant but play(ed)
>out a plan to shuffle debt from card to card to reap the benefits and
>avoid the costs. It could work at times and it certainly caught up with
>many in a negative way!

The scoop about "no interest" is contained in fine print that probably
even you don't read. The trick is to transfer, but the only activity
on a no interest account should be paying off the transferred debt.
>


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