The behavior of credit card companies often reflects a lack of consideration for clients because their only motive is profits. These companies would adopt every hackneyed and novel strategy to increase their earnings. But if you’re bent on wiping out your credit card debts, you must first do every effort to learn how they adjust your payments because despite your regular payments, your debts would still seem to be at the same levels.
You must immediately seek a clarification from these credit card companies how your payments are being accounted because only if you know this, you can decide your further course of action. The credit card companies cannot evade answering this query because you have a legal right to this information.
One provision to look into is the company’s “payment allocation provision” which plainly says that they can adjust your payments to any part of your credit card debt as they please. You may be shocked to know that these credit card companies adjust all your payments towards only the low interest debts and all your high interest debts are kept intact. This is because they can keep on charging high rates on these high interest debts to earn more. This is the answer to the puzzle why your credit card debts continue to mount despite the fact that you’re paying regularly.
Now that you know the answer, you must negotiate with the credit card companies to apply payments to liquidate the higher interest debts first and then subsequently, your low interest debts. Generally, such debts as student and car loans can be negotiated this way.
Another great move will be to transfer all your high interest credit card debts to a zero interest credit card account, by doing which, you can save much on interest payments. But you should see to it that you do not increase your debts by further charging your zero interest credit card. This may lead you back into the debt trap once again.
The greatest solution lies in liquidating your credit card debts completely and sooner. This will free you from the shackles of debt that you have been reeling under all these days, so that you can have complete focus on restoring your purposeful life.
