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Money Dance: Excuse Me?

Dec 01, 2008 13:37

Originally published at Lane Ellen. You can comment here or there.

Why do people on the end of the line at credit card companies talk to you like they are doing you a favor?

So, Part 1 did not totally succeed - the new card I was offered had a measly limit of $400. Excuse me? It was obvious from my application that I was looking to transfer money ( Read more... )

$ or your life

Comments 1

athelis December 2 2008, 14:30:09 UTC

It is REALLY hard to get out of the thumb of those creditors and credit cards once they have their hooks in you. It took me quite a while to get rid of ALL of my debt minus my student loans and car payments and I pretty much had to do exactly what you are doing now. It is far to easy to just pull out that credit card when you are a little short on cash and use it just a little bit here and a little bit there until the amount owed balloons. Part of the other way I had to do this was to just get rid of my credit cards completely ( ... )