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Paypal scam email? Maybe not - I've been stung!!!
Not sure if I've posted this to the correct site but here goes: I've just received an email from paypal confirming my payment to webmaster.com for 5.99 euros. This was followed by another paypal email stating that my access has been limited due to suspicious activity. Here we go I thought, another scamming email and…
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Goldfish sold to Barclaycard...
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/business_money/barclays+nets+goldfish/1509047 Banking giant Barclays has agreed a £35 million deal to buy the Goldfish credit card business. The deal is set to add around 1.7 million customers to the bank's 9.6 million Barclaycard card holders, if approved by competition authorities.…
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Asda Card with BT
Hello I have got Asda card with the £500 credit limit so i have made a balance transfer of £300 to my barclays card. But now i am thinking to make this card in my use on regular base and paying them £100 back before i go ahead. Is it a useful thought ? or should i not use it .. How much interest is going to be if i use it…
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How do I know who I hold CC's with?
Question is in the title really. How do I know who I hold a CC with. I ask for a few reasons, firstly because I paid off my Virgin and Egg card some months ago and asked both of them to be closed, when I log on to Virgin, it tells me that the account is deactivated, with a status showing as closed, which is great, mu my…
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Just been accepted for new Egg Card
I have an egg card, pay off in full every month, it is not being cancelled, I phoned Egg at the Weekend and they said your not one of those people getting a letter, so I thought today I would apply for an Egg card in my OH name through Quidco to get the £20 cashback, we have no debt so we won't use it for a balance…
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Balance Transfer question
Hi A friend of mine owes about £5k on store cards and credit cards and has asked me for some advice. (I don't know the full details yet) I'm thinking balance transfer the store cards onto a 0% balance transfer card and maybe arrange a lower APR on the cards. BUT what would be the best way to do this? Would it be best…
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anyone good at maths?
Got £4,622.68 on a mbna card at 19% and have just agreed to transfer to halifax card at 6.9%:D life time balance. Thing is I told him to transfer in £5,200....so it's too much. Presumably there will be extra money there which I could be doing with to put into my next highest interest rate card Sainsburys. 18%. How much…
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Advice please - car dealer refusing credit card
We're about to buy a new car and transferred the balance on a credit card with a high credit limit to one with 0% for balance trasnfers intending to put the car payment on the orginial card with 0% for purchases and the high limit. However, the dealer is claiming we can't pay on credit card because they "cannot get…
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Citibank application was successful - is that it?
I've just gone through setting up the citibank CC for best balance transfers for life. I put in the details for all 3 of my existing cards (totalling £4250) and got through to the end saying i was successful in my application for the card. No paperwork to sign and my new card will be here 7-10 days. So is that it? Or do i…
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Late payment fee from Natwest
nevermind/
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prepaid card advice
hi i would like to ask you for an advice for prepaid cards,i have never use one. which prepaid card would you recommend me to use for paying my monthly subscription fees for web hosting(in us) please?
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Abbey Credit Card unknown Credit
Received my Abbey 5% cashback credit card statement for this month. Noticed that there was a credit of £50 on 8 Jan 2008 (Credit Manual Adjustment Ex-gratia). Does anyone have the same credit? And what is it for? Thanks. Just wondering if it is related to my complaint to their service. I got the same £50 credit couple…
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Barclays - Lack of Internal Communication?
In November, I got offered a credit limit of £5K, with 95% available for balance transfer at 0%. So early December I ring up to do a transfer, and get told the rate will be 6.9%. The advisor's grasp of English was rather limited, and when I tried to question this he seemed to just chuckle, then put me on hold, came back…
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balance transfer help please
Hi Today I applied for a Tesco CC to transfer a total of £4400 from 2 other cards. My application was accepted however only for £3500 of a credit limit - does anyone know how they will work the transfers? I filled in the card no's and amounts of the transfers so do they do it automatically? Will they just transfer up until…
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Advice Needed Please - Security Issue
Hi all, A friend of mine had just received 3 credit cards, all renewed from existing accounts. They are Barclays, Virgin and Halifax Visa cards. Bizarrely all three cards have issued fresh pin instructions and all three cards have specified the same pin number! This pin number was selected by my friend on just one of these…
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Credit Rating Help
Hi everyone, hope someone can help me with this. My wife just got her credit and as expected everything is fine in recent years, problem is back when we were younger and didn't really understand the impact of getting a bad credit rating she missed numerous payment on credit cards and store cards. We settled all the debts…
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Lets All Ditch Egg
Lets all close our EGG credit CARD accounts or transfer to another card and teach CITIBANK a lesson Lets send them back to AMERICA with their tail between there legs HIP HIP HURRAY!
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need help and advice
hello please can someone give me some advice? i am in debt of about £8800.It is on credit cards. natwest £1910 on 0% until april 08 HSBC £1140 on 0% until April 08 Mint £2400 no longer on 0% Halifax £1335 on 0% until oct 08 egg £2000 on 0% until april 08 I am not in a position to pay them off so am only paying minimum…
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What's the charge for withdrawing money from cc?
I know it's always a no-no to use your credit card to withdraw money from at an ATM......but OH needs to buy something from a shop miles away and only has his Egg money card and no actual cash or any other cards on him. The shop is a small independant and doesn't take credit cards. Coming home and going back with cash…
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0% balance transfer + 0% purchases
Is there a card out there that will allow a transfer of £944 from my old card and also a purchase of about £1300 both at 0%? This site recommmends a barclays card for a 0% transfer but from what ive been reading on these forums i get the impression that you cant do any spending on these tarting cards or you loose the 0%…
