First Time Credit Card User: Advice Needed

SIO_WILLS

Hello everyone hope you are all well and keeping safe 🙏
I am posting hear today as I have recently read the credit card stooging guide which I want to do but I'm unsure which credit card I need as I don't have any current debt to transfer to a balance transfer card but as my aim is to stooge will have to shift at the end of the 0% period. May seem like a very simple equation for some but I am unsure what happens if I don't have any debt to move in the first place as I've never had a credit card. I guess what I'm asking is do I need a balance and 0% spending or just a 0% spending card to start off with if my aim is to stooge.
Thank you in advance for anyone's knowledgeable and helpful answers and advice.

daivid

You need to build up some debt, either on a regular cc that you then balance transfer or by spending on an interest free spending cc. 

SIO_WILLS

I didn't think I needed a balance transfer card to start off with as well as spending but just wanted to make sure so thanks for your helpful reply. 

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Stoozing worked when there were accounts paying good interest so you could save the money and earn more in interest than if you paid the balance. Now with savings rates so low it's almost not worth it.

Example: £1000 on a card, BT it at say 2.9% fee = £29 fee

Put all £1000 in a 2% Virgin current account in one go and you earn £20 on the year so you have lost £9

Realistically, the Santander 18 month 0% fee card and putting money in the Virgin current account and say the Virgin Couch saver (1.75% up to £250? a month regular saver) or the HSBC card with £25 cashback are the only ones you could really make any profit on unless you gamble on a S&S ISA

eskbanker

SIO_WILLS said:

Hello everyone hope you are all well and keeping safe 🙏
I am posting hear today as I have recently read the credit card stooging guide which I want to do but I'm unsure which credit card I need as I don't have any current debt to transfer to a balance transfer card but as my aim is to stooge will have to shift at the end of the 0% period. May seem like a very simple equation for some but I am unsure what happens if I don't have any debt to move in the first place as I've never had a credit card. I guess what I'm asking is do I need a balance and 0% spending or just a 0% spending card to start off with if my aim is to stooge.
Thank you in advance for anyone's knowledgeable and helpful answers and advice.

Apart from the fact that stoozing is almost dead (because of the derisory interest rates available on the money made available), the best credit card deals, such as 0% ones, are usually only available to those who've built up some history - if you haven't had a credit card at all then the prospect of getting a 0% card (with a meaningful enough credit limit to make the exercise worthwhile) is practically negligible....

PiPi2019

At the end of the 0% period, use your savings to clear the balance, you can shift the debt again to another 0% balance transfer credit card to keep earning interest on the savings.

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PiPi2019 said:

At the end of the 0% period, use your savings to clear the balance, you can shift the debt again to another 0% balance transfer credit card to keep earning interest on the savings.

Unless you somehow get a couple of 0% fee cards then any savings interest earned is wiped out by the transfer fee

LightKnow

Sio_wills   Sorry for using thread to ask a question too.

Like Wills I haven’t really used credit card or really heard of stoozing until few hours ago

So am I wrong to think- you Get a credit card with o% use that card for shopping, paying bills etc but pay x amount each month  at same time you keep your money so builds up by interest and once you hit the end of 0% you pay it all off ? 

And what you saved plus the internet - the amount to clear card? So you left with x amount?

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LightKnow said:

And what you saved plus the internet - the amount to clear card? So you left with x amount?

Yes, although plus interest, rather than the internet.

LightKnow

Deleted_User said:

LightKnow said:

And what you saved plus the internet - the amount to clear card? So you left with x amount?

Yes, although plus interest, rather than the internet.

Oppps haha thanks for correcting