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MSN Money article - utter pants
CannyJock
Posts: 3,838 Forumite
in Credit cards
Rarely do I read something so badly written that I feel the need to flame it, but here's one for you:
http://money.uk.msn.com/guides/Credit-Reports/article.aspx?cp-documentid=7982901
Apart from the utterly useless vagueness and wishy washy witterings, it's not even accurate.
For example, did you know that if you do a balance transfer to a card and then spend on it then: "Any repayments you do make will almost certainly come off new spending first, leaving the debt you transferred to mount up even more rapidly"
Wrong! Allocation of payment rules you chump! It's like they have a team of trained monkeys bashing on keyboards and this one came up with the closest thing to being printable.
If you get a minute, click on the link and give it a 1 star rating "Poor" rating.
Right, off to lie down in a darkened room for 10 minutes.
http://money.uk.msn.com/guides/Credit-Reports/article.aspx?cp-documentid=7982901
Apart from the utterly useless vagueness and wishy washy witterings, it's not even accurate.
For example, did you know that if you do a balance transfer to a card and then spend on it then: "Any repayments you do make will almost certainly come off new spending first, leaving the debt you transferred to mount up even more rapidly"
Wrong! Allocation of payment rules you chump! It's like they have a team of trained monkeys bashing on keyboards and this one came up with the closest thing to being printable.
If you get a minute, click on the link and give it a 1 star rating "Poor" rating.
Right, off to lie down in a darkened room for 10 minutes.
"A child of five could understand this. Fetch me a child of five." - Groucho Marx
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Do you really mean trained monkeys.I saw a chimps tea party once and I remember them counting very well.
I think it was writen by a dullard of a homo sapian.Previously known as Bokken,registered at MSE in Nov 04,computer glich deleted my access but it is fun building up my stars from scratch,again.:D0 -
Plus you can tell it's just a thinly disguised plug for Experian's Credit Expert.....
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