Feb 21 2010
Settle Credit Card Debt on Bad Credit Cards
The credit cards in our life have gone haywire – they hit us with inexplicable fees, the interest rates are going through the roof, they are cutting our spending limits, and there no rewards either. Even if you haven’t looked closely at your credit card bills these past few months, you can be sure that your credit card deal just got quite grim. If it isn’t obvious yet, this is no longer a buyer’s market. All of this may not really put you in the mood to count your blessings; but whatever raw deal your bank just handed to you, you can be sure that there are people out there with bad credit cards and contracts that make your bank look like Santa Claus. Let’s look at some of these bad credit cards winners.
Let’s start with subprime cards; First Premier Bank’s Centennial Gold card gives bad credit cards a bad name. They charge you nearly $30 to set up an account, they slap on nearly $100 for what they call a program fee, there is an annual fee, and you need to pay a servicing fee that’s about $100 a year too. You actually owe more in all these startups fees than the average credit limit the first month. All this changes with the new credit card law though, starting February. They won’t be able to charge you fees higher than 25% of your credit limit.
Let us begin with a little story, to understand what it is that negotiators that settle credit card debt, do. There’s a little family-owned restaurant in Orlando, close to the Universal Studios theme park lot. They have been well-liked around town ever since 1990, and run a roaring business. But they figured that they could use the goodwill they earned in and around town, and extend their good fortune by opening a few more restaurants near the other theme parks in Orlando.
They thought they could not go wrong; they scraped all they could, and opened in their new locations. But with the economic slowdown, and with their struggle to maintain their famous quality in so many places at the same time, business slowed down. It got to the point where they had to take out new 0% credit cards just to keep their business from going under. When they came to owing $75,000 all over, one day, they defaulted on a credit card bill, and that was when it all started.
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