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Interesting CCC Article

Citigroup is trying to "cancel out" credit cards for 160K people in the U.K. due to possible perceived credit risk. Interesting article, read more here:

http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djf500/200802021434DOWJONESDJONLINE000214_FORTUNE5.htm

Message Edited by pjriverap on 02-03-2008 10:19 PM
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haulingthescoreup
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I was interested in the accusation that the people being canceled were the PIF'ers. I wish the article had gone into that a bit more, to see if it were true.
"Of course, no one should be forced to give credit to anyone. In fact, I've accused this industry of too easily giving credit in the past and not making proper checks," the Scottish legislator said.

"But in this case they seem to be almost indiscriminately taking people off their books and there is a strong suspicion that these are people who - because they don't actually get into debt and start paying high monthly interest charges - ... may not be the most highly profitable customers and they're being cleared off the books," Griffiths said.
* Credit is a wonderful servant, but a terrible master. * Who's the boss --you or your credit?
FICO's: EQ 781 - TU 793 - EX 779 (from PSECU) - Done credit hunting; having fun with credit gardening. - EQ 590 on 5/14/2007
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Anonymous
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I concur...I'm interested to see fi anything similar happens in the U.S. in the coming months...time will tell.
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MidnightVoice
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The slide from grace is really more like gliding
And I've found the trick is not to stop the sliding
But to find a graceful way of staying slid
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Anonymous
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Chase did it to me and some of my friends back in '94 - we all PIF each month then BLAM - you're cancelled (oh, and pay this bill in full NOW).
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Anonymous
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It's like what has been bandied about the board in months past.

CCC's like to see people go into debt, so they can collect the fees and interest rates.

They consider those that manage their debt responsibly by pif'ing "deadbeats" as they make no money on them.

Owe nothing and they treat you badly. Owe a lot and they treat you badly. Kinda like burning a candle at both ends?
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haulingthescoreup
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@MidnightVoice wrote:















I like how the Egg spokespeople said that they were actually doing the canceled cardholders a favor. Or favour, I guess it should be. Smiley Wink


Message Edited by haulingthescoreup on 02-04-2008 11:48 AM
* Credit is a wonderful servant, but a terrible master. * Who's the boss --you or your credit?
FICO's: EQ 781 - TU 793 - EX 779 (from PSECU) - Done credit hunting; having fun with credit gardening. - EQ 590 on 5/14/2007
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MidnightVoice
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haulingthescoreup wrote:

I like how the Egg spokespeople said that they were actually doing the canceled cardholders a favor. Or favour, I guess it should be. Smiley Wink




I know - it might actually increase their score  Smiley Happy
The slide from grace is really more like gliding
And I've found the trick is not to stop the sliding
But to find a graceful way of staying slid
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Anonymous
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Wow - thanks Midnight for sharing the additional articles.
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Anonymous
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Or...

They could be doing what Sprint did last year. Getting rid of some of the people that call and bug them with the smallest of complaints, or interest rate decrease, or cli's.

Regardless of PIF they still will make money off of them from transaction fees, the companies that work with them for ThankYou, and a ton of other things. Why would a company that has just lost the amount of money they lost want to deal with people that will potentially default. They want people that WILL NOT default.

Will the sub-prime melt down I doubt very seriously companies are trying to get rid of people that pay there bills.
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