Thursday, June 24, 2010

How to compare credit card offers?

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How to compare credit card offers?

A credit card is a plastic friend in our pocket to help us in any bad financial situation. Just like choosing a good friend we are in need to choose a best credit card. We have many types of credit cards which we can use according to our financial ability, some types are listed below:

    * Cash back credit cards
    * Credit cards with rewards
    * Balance transfer credit cards
    * Charity credit cards
    * Student credit cards
    * Master credit cards
    * Prepaid credit cards, etc.

It is not an easy task to find a suitable credit card which satisfies our needs, especially for the people who have no experience in managing credit cards. These credit card companies provides many offers for the customers, so choosing a best offer from it creates a great confusion, before choosing the offer please be aware of it. Card providers get the profit in billion dollars, by charging very high interest as an expense rate and hold them in their trap. So be aware of getting a credit card. It is advisable for you, not to get a credit card without satisfying your needs. Because credit is very much mandatory for all people in daily life, so please don’t be trapped by getting excess credits.

After getting the credit cards it is not an easy task to compare and choose the offers given by the providers. Don’t jump towards the first offer you see, wait for a while, analyze a lot, and if it satisfies your financial needs then get the offer. If not, you have to struggle with financial issues in the future.



We can give you some tips for comparing and choosing the offers which suits you.

    * Examine any card offers if you receive in your mail, or message.
    * Check the membership fee.
    * Find the interest rates for the amount credited, because in some offers the interest is very high.
    * Verify the offers, and evaluate the best which suits your needs.
    * Locate the annual fee for using the card.

Using credit cards wisely is also a great deal, it is not so easy to carry a huge amount of money for shopping to get something, so credit cards helps us in the sense that we are able to carry a single card which contains enough amount which is not visible. Here are some tips to use credit cards wisely,

    * Pay the bills as soon as they reach you, if not, the interest will accumulate.
    * Try to pay more than the minimum amount.
    * Use only one rewards card.
    * Transfer the amount from higher rate cards to lower rate cards, and reduce using higher rate cards.

Check the transaction fees, which detect for your transfer of balance, also be careful in using the checks which your credit card company sends. Also know your payment date which makes you free from additional payment.

There are a plethora of credit card offers out there that try to hunt prospective buyers but you need to do extensive research and read every fine detail that comes along with it. Many offers come along with a ‘conditions apply’ criteria, you need to check them too. In all, handle this comparison of offers task with care and with a lot of thought and analysis.

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1 comment:

Unknown said...

Nice giding information
Thanks