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Worst Credit Card I Ever Seen

May 16, 2008 at 11:06 am · Filed under Uncategorized

I often wonder about the irony of subprime lending - whether it’s made available through mortgage or through credit cards or through any other source of credit. I mean, people with bad credit are the very people who should be staying away from subprime borrowing. These people are already in the subprime category because of financial troubles and then there are these stupid (and very likely, unaffordable) subprime products targeted at them - which have the potential to throw them deeper down the financial hole.

Here is one such stupid subprime product - the Continental Finance MasterCard. It’s hard to believe that this piece of plastic comes with an initial credit limit of just $53 after a long list of fees!


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Below are some of the amazing rates and fees that go along with this card.

  • Account setup fee: $99
  • Program participation fee: $89
  • Annual fee: $49
  • Account maintenance fee: $120 (charged @ $10/month)
  • Purchase APR: 19.92%
  • Authorized user fee: $30 (great! seems like $53 credit is a bit too much for a single person to handle)
  • Credit limit increase fee: $25 (and you don’t even have to ask for it!) Each Credit Limit increase will be $100.00, subject to a maximum Credit Limit of $2,000.00. Each increase will appear on your Account no later than one (1) month after you have qualified for such increase. At the time of each Credit Limit increase, a $25.00 Credit Limit Increase Fee, which is a FINANCE CHARGE, will be charged to your Account.

    • You need to call these people and ask them to stop; otherwise, they are automatically going to increase the limit by $100 each time and charge you the $25 fee.

    I agree that people with bad credit pose the risk of potential losses for the credit issuing company, but this a bit too much for a credit line worth just $300. This is where the irony strikes me - if you make it difficult for people to pay back what they borrow, it’s only going to increase the chances that they will never pay back what they borrowed. Isn’t there a risk assigned to this perspective?

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