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- From: dman@netcom.com (Dallman Ross)
- Subject: Re: Contract cooling off period
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.084959.14075@netcom.com>
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 08:49:59 GMT
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- Phil Nelson (pnelson@cobra.Tymnet.COM) wrote:
- : In article <1992Dec30.232657.26609@netcom.com> dman@netcom.com (Dallman Ross) writes:
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- : >My understanding is the Rule of 78ths for consumer loans was abrogated
- : >statutorily in CA some year's back. (Like, about 1978. :-)
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- : Judging by the payoff figure given me by Chrysler Credit Co. recently,
- : it is not their understanding. I didn't do the math, but it seemed to
- : me that the difference between the making the remaining 24 payments
- : totalling about $9K and the "pay off" amount should be more than the
- : few hundred dollars they quoted (I don't remember the exact amount,
- : but it didn't seem like much, it was less than $1K).
-
- What's your interest rate? Rough math in my head would put the figure
- at about a $1150 difference at 9.5%. Could be way off, but I'm not going to
- hunt for my TI MBA calculator and see if the battery pack works and if
- I can still remember how to use it. :-)
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