Photo Credit: The Consumerist
1. Get your current balance on all your credit cards. If you’ve been tucking away the bills as they come in, you may be in for a huge surprise. Many credit cards charge $39 for late fees and another$39 for being over the limit.
2. Write down the balance the due date, and [...]
Archive for the ‘Debt’ Category
How to Fix your Credit Card Problems in 5 Steps
Posted in Debt, tagged Credit Cards, pay off debt on October 24, 2007 | No Comments »
Business Week Reports: Fight Credit Card Pushers
Posted in Debt, tagged blog news, business week, college, Credit Cards, magagines on October 11, 2007 | 4 Comments »
BusinessWeek is continuing its coverage of college students and the credit card companies hoping to get more customers on its rolls. Jessica Silver-Greenburg did a fantastic job with this series as it tries to be balanced and neither present students as victims nor completely at fault for the heavy pushing on them. Here’s the snippet I [...]
Majoring in Credit-Card Debt
Posted in Debt, tagged Credit Cards, Debt, News on September 4, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Many times when it is mentioned how much credit card debt college students carry, the credit card companies’ strategy is hardly examined beyond the fact they offer free goodies to get students to sign up. This article looks at how some companies are pursuing unethical tactics to get students cards, even when they don’t qualify. [...]
