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MBNA Credit cards

l payed off my mbna credit card in full on the 22/5/08 received a phone call from the company to ask where l had received the money to clear the account and why l gave them the answer.they then prcedded to tell my that l would be charged intrest on my account from the 2/5/08 to the 23/5/08 because the interst is worked out daily ,l aske how was this because l cleared my account before the due date they also said that the intrest was on the mount of £2364 this was my closing balace so now if this is the case i'm still going to be due them about £700 please help:confused:

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  • CLAPTON
    CLAPTON Posts: 41,865 Forumite
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    if you normally dont pay in full then
    you need to pay in full for two consecutive bills to clear all the interest.
    thats how all CC work.
    I can't see how you calculate it to be 700.. seems far too high
  • bengal-stripe
    bengal-stripe Posts: 3,353 Forumite
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    Presuming your rate of interest is 16 %, that would be £ 378.00 for the entire year.
    Interest is charged daily, so that is just over £ 1.00 per day or £ 21.75 for 21 days.

    If your interest rate is 29.6 %, that would be £ 700.00 for the year.
    Daily interst is 700 : 365 = £ 1.92 per day or £ 40.27 for 21 days.
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