Monday, January 6, 2014

Reducing Credit Card Debt: Try Contacting Your Lender

Most people find themselves with credit card debt at one time or another. When the debt becomes to large you can begin to feel like you have no options to ever pay that debt down.

What many people don't understand is they may be able to contact their credit card company directly and negotiate some of the debt away. How is that possible?

For starters the Internet makes it possible to research all the different kinds of credit card offers available to you. Many of these credit card companies are offering low introductory rates, or maybe even 0% interest on balance transfers.

If you are a good customer for your credit card company you might be able to utilize some of these offers from other companies to negotiate with your existing credit card lender. If you're happy with the credit card company you really don't want to leave them by transferring your balance and starting with a new company that you're not sure will be as good as your existing one.

What you want to do is take a look at your existing interest rate to see if there might be an opportunity for you to contact your credit card company and request a lower rate. The average person doesn't really understand how many thousands of dollars they spend on interest every year. They also do no realize how well getting a lower rate could reduce their credit card debt significantly.

It certainly is worth picking up the phone and making a call to see if you have any options. All you have to do is look at all of the commercials on television for credit card offers to understand how competitive the credit card business is.

Companies spent a lot of money to attract new customers, but they're also willing to offer lower rates to existing customers if they feel you are one they want to keep.

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