A Negative Side Effect to Paying Down Credit Cards

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A Negative Side Effect to Paying Down Credit Cards

Published by sam - 20/10/07 - 11:10:09 pm

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About six months ago, my wife and I sent the final payments into our two biggest credit cards. We had struggled with the credit card debt for the better part of five years, but, with the help of a large bonus and other miscellaneous cash, we were able to crush the remainder in one fell swoop. This would be the end of our dealings with the credit card companies, right? Wrong.

Last Friday I received yet ANOTHER set of cash advance checks to use for “special vacations or emergencies.” They keep telling me that “because of my strong financial history” they are offering me this great deal of quick cash at “only” 14.99%. Only 14.99%? I have kindly called them several times explaining that I didn’t have any use for their money anymore, and that they could stop sending these checks for security purposes. Each assures me that I will receive no more mailings, and, for good measure, attempts to convince me that I should do a balance transfer or increase my credit line. Uh, yeah, go ahead and increase it, so you look even more ridiculous with a $0 balance on a $40,000 credit line.

My biggest beef with these guys is not that they’re out to make a buck. Where I get angry is that every customer service representative seems to solve the problem, but I find out later they were unsuccessful. It is just too large a risk to have checks coming in the mail that could be used to throw me right back into debt. I’ve already stopped nearly all credit card offers using OptOutPreScreen.com. Why can’t they follow suit and just stop?

Has anybody else had any luck in stopping these mailings?

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