Then after a week, you tranfer the amount with a balance tranfer check onto your OTHER credit card. So you just tranfered 2K onto your OTHER credit card.
Here's a better idea:Quote from pumpkinhead:
Here's the deal. You need TWO credit cards with lots of credit left on them. An empty credit card is best with no amount due. Here's how you do it....You go to a department store and buy a large price item with one of your credit cards. Buy somebody that you can return...like a laptop computer or a piece of jewlery for $2,000.00....Then after a week, you tranfer the amount with a balance tranfer check onto your OTHER credit card. So you just tranfered 2K onto your OTHER credit card. Then you RETURN the computer or jewlery or whatever you bought for 2K to the store and they will credit your credit card that you used to purchase the item. So you now have a 2K credit on an empty credit card with no money due. The credit card HAS to send you a refund check in the mail if you ask them to because you owe them NO MONEY. So you call the card company and ask them to send you a check for the 2K that they owe you. They do it and you now have 2K to trade with. LOL. What do you think? You have any better ideas?![]()
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Here's a better idea:
Take a credit card balance transfer check. Write your name on it. Deposit it at your bank. Now you have accomplished the same thing with a lot less work.
You do know that you can use those balance transfer checks for anything, not just paying off other credit balances, don't you?
You are the one that suggested using a balance transfer check:Quote from pumpkinhead:
Very bad idea. Balance tranfer checks charge high interest and cash advance fee's. A credit card check is the same as a cash advance and they charge 50% and more interest which is compounded "daily". There is no payoff grace period. They charge $500.00 to take out 5K. Bad idea. No cash rewards given for cash advances with credit card checks. Bad idea.
It has to be an item purchase if you want the cash back rewards with zero interest and a payoff grace period.
But I agree...its a bad idea you had.Quote from pumpkinhead:
Then after a week, you tranfer the amount with a balance tranfer check onto your OTHER credit card
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You are the one that suggested using a balance transfer check:
You are wrong, you do not have to pay off another credit card to take advantage of credit card balance transfer checks.Quote from pumpkinhead:
Balance tranfer checks used to tranfer balances from one CC to another are not charged fee's and some give zero interest. If a balance tranfer check is used to deposit money into your account, then they chage high interest and fee's. Bad idea.