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Archive Home > 2009 > June > 11 > How to talk down a credit card rate hike

How to talk down a credit card rate hike

By Becky Yerak / The Bulletin
June 11, 2009

If your credit card company has hiked your rate and you can’t pay it off immediately, one option is to call the issuer and ask for a lower rate, particularly if you’ve been a long-time customer.

“Say, ‘I’ve been a customer for X amount of time,....

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