Which balance transfer offer should I take!
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rich81
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Hi All,
I have quite a bit of CC debt that I am paying off. 2 of my card are about to revert to Standard rate as my promotional offer is ending. This means that I will be paying £119 interest per month (ouch). Good old Barclaycard have offered me two options...... 0% until April 2017 or 6.9% for the life of the balance. I would be able to transfer the entire £7300 across.
What would you do? 0% is appealing but I would then have to find another 0% next April. Would the 6.9% be a better option long term? This would cost me £42 per month interest ( based on starting balance) so I would still be saving around £75 per month.
I have quite a bit of CC debt that I am paying off. 2 of my card are about to revert to Standard rate as my promotional offer is ending. This means that I will be paying £119 interest per month (ouch). Good old Barclaycard have offered me two options...... 0% until April 2017 or 6.9% for the life of the balance. I would be able to transfer the entire £7300 across.
What would you do? 0% is appealing but I would then have to find another 0% next April. Would the 6.9% be a better option long term? This would cost me £42 per month interest ( based on starting balance) so I would still be saving around £75 per month.
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How much are you paying off this card each month?0
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Sanctioned_Parts_List wrote: »How much are you paying off this card each month?
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I can afford to pay £250. This means that I would have paid off £1750 by April, so would still owe £5500 ish when the interest rate shoots back up0 -
Assuming Barclaycard's normal 1.9% transfer fee, that your standard rate is their 17.2% and not the higher sub-prime rate and that you never touch the card once you've set your payment up then:
- If you take the 5.9% option, your debt will be cleared in roughly 33 months at £250/month, and you will have paid £605 in interest
- If you take the 0% option and don't switch to another interest-free card when the introductory offer ends then your debt will be cleared in roughly 36 months, but you'll have paid £1168 in interest
Effort has its rewards.
(Note these numbers came from fag-packet maths, so sorry if they're out by a few months).0 -
Sanctioned_Parts_List wrote: »Assuming Barclaycard's normal 1.9% transfer fee, that your standard rate is their 17.2% and not the higher sub-prime rate and that you never touch the card once you've set your payment up then:
- If you take the 5.9% option, your debt will be cleared in roughly 33 months at £250/month, and you will have paid £605 in interest
- If you take the 0% option and don't switch to another interest-free card when the introductory offer ends then your debt will be cleared in roughly 36 months, but you'll have paid £1168 in interest
Effort has its rewards.
(Note these numbers came from fag-packet maths, so sorry if they're out by a few months).
Thanks for this reply and for taking the time for crunching numbers for me I have other debts ( a lot of other debts!!!) so I am thinking to take the safe option at the moment and take the 6.9% offer and using any subsequent 0% offers for my other debts. I have around 40K to pay off in total.0 -
Oh.
Then perhaps rather than focusing on each debt in isolation you should post an SOA - template here: http://www.stoozing.com/calculator/soa.php
There may well be a more efficient way of tackling it.0 -
Agree with what Sanctioned said - you need to look at the picture as a whole, not just focus on one individual area.
Have you looked at the eligibility calculator for 0% offers on the main MSE site to see how you stack up with chances of being able to get deals?🎉 MORTGAGE FREE (First time!) 30/09/2016 🎉 And now we go again…New mortgage taken 01/09/23 🏡
Balance as at 01/09/23 = £115,000.00
Balance as at 31/12/23 = £112,000.00SOA CALCULATOR (for DFW newbies): SOA Calculatorshe/her0
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