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I never seem to get Balance or Money transfers offers with low fees.

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When my existing cards offer them they are always in the 4.99 % range.
I don't need the balance transfers  but I sometimes use the money transfers - but like I say always (for many many years)  4.99% fee 
Do any of you have the same issues?

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  • Nasqueron
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    Barclays and NatWest both offer me decent rates - I have balances on both - albeit not as good as a new customer

    Barclays top MSE offer is 33 months @ 3.45% (ignoring the 14 months no fee) / mine is 24 months @ 2.9%
    NatWest isn't on the MSE site but I get 18 months @ 3% fee - their website is showing either the same 18 months @ 2.99% or 31 months @ 3.49%

    HSBC, Halifax/Lloyds, Tesco, Santander and M&S all offering poor rates once mine expired

    Sam Vimes' Boots Theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness: 

    People are rich because they spend less money. A poor man buys $10 boots that last a season or two before he's walking in wet shoes and has to buy another pair. A rich man buys $50 boots that are made better and give him 10 years of dry feet. The poor man has spent $100 over those 10 years and still has wet feet.

  • fergie_
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    I don't think that its any coincidence that the transfer charges increased alongside BoE interest rates.
  • Nasqueron
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    fergie_ said:
    I don't think that its any coincidence that the transfer charges increased alongside BoE interest rates.
    Credit card interest rates have dropped, if only marginally. The fees are based on what the bank considers the risk from the credit file of the applicant

    Sam Vimes' Boots Theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness: 

    People are rich because they spend less money. A poor man buys $10 boots that last a season or two before he's walking in wet shoes and has to buy another pair. A rich man buys $50 boots that are made better and give him 10 years of dry feet. The poor man has spent $100 over those 10 years and still has wet feet.

  • goatfaced
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    I've had similar. Barclaycard offer me lower fees but I have a small credit limit with them so I can't use them for the whole transfer I need. 

    The fees are always higher for money transfers I found, so I do a balance transfer instead from whatever cash back card I'm doing my spending on. I always pay in full, so doing the balance transfer means I've got the money I would have paid in my bank just like it would have been if I did a money transfer. Saves me a little bit in fees.
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