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- From: charleen@net.bio.net (Charleen Bunjiovianna)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers
- Subject: Re: Discover Card - Pffffft!
- Message-ID: <Jan.21.09.27.33.1993.996@net.bio.net>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 17:27:33 GMT
- References: <1993Jan19.153456.5168@spdcc.com> <1jhr70INN35v@dayub.dayton.saic.com> <1993Jan20.150350.19012@sdc.com>
- Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Biology
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- In article <1993Jan20.150350.19012@sdc.com> kenk@sdc.com (Ken Konecki) writes:
- >
- >And if you pay off your debt every month (which you should), the
- >interest rate is insignificant no matter which card you use.
-
- Ken? Ohhh, Ken? Anyone awake in there?
-
- I am so sick of this moralizing re carrying a credit card balance. I
- agree that it makes no sense to make many small charges and pay
- interest on them from month to month, but some of us are not
- sufficiently flush with cash to be able to pay off one or two large,
- utterly necessary charges in a month. I just bought a condo four
- months ago. (Can you say, "house poor"?) I've been having very
- expensive car problems, one after another. I need the car to get to
- work and to run my small sideline business. Ergo, I've put the repair
- bills on the trusty ol' Visa and will pay them off over the next six
- months or so.
-
- And what about the students who have to charge their tuition, with plans
- of paying it back after they land a post-college well-paying job?
-
- Interest rate matters. I shouldn't have had to explain this.
-
- Charleen
-