MSE News: Five balance transfer deals cut

Former_MSE_Karl · 9 March 2018 at 5:49PM

Five best-buy 0% balance transfer deals have been cut this week, with the longest card now offering up to 36 months at 0%, and the longest no-fee card 28 months. If you've credit card debt to shift, act now before deals worsen...

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'Card providers pull FIVE top 0% balance transfer deals'

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stevenhp1987 · 9 March 2018 at 6:27PM

MSE_Karl wrote: »

Card Providers pull FIVE top 0% balance transfer deals

I'm not seeing many (if any?!) deals that are actually "pulled". I see deals which have had 1 month shaved off, and indeed, the Barclaycard offering, while reducing the term by one month, has lowered the fee making it a better deal than before.

Why must the title read like click-bait and be completely inaccurate?

Ectophile · 9 March 2018 at 8:42PM

I might be more impressed with these 0% interest transfers if they didn't slap a "balance transfer fee" on instead. They are just charging the interest by the back door.

michaels · 9 March 2018 at 11:01PM

Ectophile wrote: »

I might be more impressed with these 0% interest transfers if they didn't slap a "balance transfer fee" on instead. They are just charging the interest by the back door.

1.35% interest to borrow money for 35 months sounds pretty cheap to me, and cheaper than 1.8% for 36 months. Still mse is much more interested in sensationalism than facts.

redux · 10 March 2018 at 12:11AM

I disagree with this comment in the article, or suggest it could be more carefully written.

If you've credit card debt to shift, act now before deals worsen.

If someone has an existing card balance they are considering transferring, then if it is interest bearing then it was already worth acting before this.

However someone who has a balance already at 0% and wants to move it in a few months time should note this but not panic. Voluntarily losing say 6 months now by transferring early would be worthwhile only if more than 6 months will be trimmed from new deal availability within that time. Is MSE suggesting that might happen? Not necessarily.

nic_c · 11 March 2018 at 11:38PM

redux wrote: »

I disagree with this comment in the article, or suggest it could be more carefully written.

If someone has an existing card balance they are considering transferring, then if it is interest bearing then it was already worth acting before this.

However someone who has a balance already at 0% and wants to move it in a few months time should note this but not panic. Voluntarily losing say 6 months now by transferring early would be worthwhile only if more than 6 months will be trimmed from new deal availability within that time. Is MSE suggesting that might happen? Not necessarily.

True they give examples of a month being shaved off, so shifting debts now might not save money if you already have 0% and time left. Like everything its a consideration - there are cards with longer 0% and higher fee and ones with no fee or reduced fee with slightly shorter 0%. MSE has been warning that long 0% cards would be coming to an end forwell over a year now, but all we've had is a slight shortening. Will they be telling us to sell our houses and rent for a while to ride out the pending housing crash.

I'll keep my 0% and when they are near the end look for another then,

Thrugelmir · 12 March 2018 at 12:25AM

There's a general tightening now that transfers have come under the spotlight of the regulatory authorities. Life isn't going to get any easier that's a certainty. Repaying the debt is the issue though. Not having an expectation of endless transfers. Eventually the road will end and there'll be a cliff below.

MSE News: Five balance transfer deals cut

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