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Pot calls kettle black
Robert_Sterling_3
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in Credit cards
The kettle in this case being the Moneynotsosupermarket website.
Apparently moneynotsosupermarket claims to be an independent comparison website but all the cards mentioned in its best buy tables are issued by providers that pay a fee. It lists Citibank Platinum and Morgan Stanley Platinum as top intruductory offers of 0% purchases and BTs but omits Mint and Halifax One. Says an article by Claire Francis in the Sunday Times.
and the Pot?
You may well ask
In the Sunday Times
Egg is shown as paying 5.50%*, albeit with an asterisk, on a Deposit Account via the internet.
Well of course this is 100% true.
However an advertisement on an earlier page is even more true if that is possible.
It says the AER on the deposit account is 5.12%
and it still could be more true still and say the rate is 4.75% plus an initial bonus rate.
This post is not suggesting for one moment that either the moneysupermarket website or the Sunday Times is doing anything wrong nor that they or Egg are trying to mislead anyone.
Apparently moneynotsosupermarket claims to be an independent comparison website but all the cards mentioned in its best buy tables are issued by providers that pay a fee. It lists Citibank Platinum and Morgan Stanley Platinum as top intruductory offers of 0% purchases and BTs but omits Mint and Halifax One. Says an article by Claire Francis in the Sunday Times.
and the Pot?
You may well ask
In the Sunday Times
Egg is shown as paying 5.50%*, albeit with an asterisk, on a Deposit Account via the internet.
Well of course this is 100% true.
However an advertisement on an earlier page is even more true if that is possible.
It says the AER on the deposit account is 5.12%
and it still could be more true still and say the rate is 4.75% plus an initial bonus rate.
This post is not suggesting for one moment that either the moneysupermarket website or the Sunday Times is doing anything wrong nor that they or Egg are trying to mislead anyone.
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