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@BBYGRL wrote:Good question and very helpful answers. It's easy to br blinded by the 0% BTs with the reg APR. I almost fell for it. Whew...
@haulingthescoreup wrote:I read a post by someone who said that there was a cap on her (his?) BofA BT, but that's the only time I've ever seen it. Most BT fees cap out at $75-99, but not BofA. On an $8K BT, I paid $240. If you take a year to pay off the balance, that's sorta like having 3% APR. Not bad at all, but certainly more than 0%.
@GST2008 wrote:
Let's not forget the BT fee. I just got an offer from one of my cards for 5.9% on BT's, and then you look at the fee which is something like 3% which I'm assuming goes in as a purchase. So now I have 5.9% a month plus a purchase of 3% of the total that accrues the regular interest.
@Anonymous wrote:
@haulingthescoreup wrote:I read a post by someone who said that there was a cap on her (his?) BofA BT, but that's the only time I've ever seen it. Most BT fees cap out at $75-99, but not BofA. On an $8K BT, I paid $240. If you take a year to pay off the balance, that's sorta like having 3% APR. Not bad at all, but certainly more than 0%.
@GST2008 wrote:
Let's not forget the BT fee. I just got an offer from one of my cards for 5.9% on BT's, and then you look at the fee which is something like 3% which I'm assuming goes in as a purchase. So now I have 5.9% a month plus a purchase of 3% of the total that accrues the regular interest.
I just did a BT with my BoA/FIA card which had a cap of $75 which I more than got to. I was hoping to do another BT nearer to the end of the year on another BoA card, but now I don't know.