The True Cost of Credit Cards
Do
you need financial help? financial problems and credit cards go hand
in hand, find out how much credit cards are really costing you.
How many times have you been told, you "must protect your credit
rating at all costs". If you damage your credit record, that's
it, your life is over. Credit is something that most people have
many misconceived ideas about and a fair amount of what I'm about to
tell you will probably go against normal "conventional thinking". So,
if you feel that reconsidering your current beliefs is not something
you are willing to do, just skip this page.
One of the first things to realize is that credit is not there to
help you in any way, shape or form. It is not there to improve your
life or make things better for you. It's not there to help you furnish
your first house or buy your first car. It's there for one reason, to
make money for the credit card company and it does this surprisingly
well by draining you of all your hard earned money for many, many years
to come. Credit is a well designed and carefully laid trap that makes
the credit card companies billions of dollars every year. Remember that
the credit card companies do not make any money unless you are in debt
and it's the creditor's intention that once you're in debt that you
stay that way for the rest of your life.
What most people don't realize is that credit (debt) is a product
that is being sold to you just like any other product.
You understand that when you walk into a car dealership that someone
is most likely going to try and sell you a car, or when you go into
a clothing store a salesperson is going to try and sell you a new outfit.
Well the product that banks are selling you is not primarily a checking
or savings account. It's debt and the financial problems that
go with it. The main goal of all banks is to issue as much money as
possible. This comes in many forms; credit cards, mortgages, car loans,
student loans, home improvement loans and many other types of secured
and unsecured debt instruments.
Credit card companies make over $60 billion in profits every year,
of which around $19 billion comes from late and over limit charges.
That's a lot of money! Do you think that they might want to protect
and expand this very nice source of income? I think so. Billions of
dollars are spent every year trying make the average credit consumer
believe that what they are doing is good for both you and the economy.
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