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	<title>Comments on: Bank of America to Charge Annual Fees</title>
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		<title>By: Balance Transfers Helper</title>
		<link>http://www.smartbalancetransfers.com/blog/2009/10/bank-of-america-to-charge-annual-fees/comment-page-1/#comment-1248</link>
		<dc:creator>Balance Transfers Helper</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>lol</description>
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		<title>By: Bank Of America</title>
		<link>http://www.smartbalancetransfers.com/blog/2009/10/bank-of-america-to-charge-annual-fees/comment-page-1/#comment-1247</link>
		<dc:creator>Bank Of America</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:49:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Please folks. Just because you pay off your charges monthly and are responsible with your finances is not reason to prevent us from shafting you. Just think about how this will affect our bonuses. We are also working to get all credit card issuers to go along with our gouging the responsible folks.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Please folks. Just because you pay off your charges monthly and are responsible with your finances is not reason to prevent us from shafting you. Just think about how this will affect our bonuses. We are also working to get all credit card issuers to go along with our gouging the responsible folks.<br />
B of A Chief Gouger</p>
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		<title>By: Balance Transfers Helper</title>
		<link>http://www.smartbalancetransfers.com/blog/2009/10/bank-of-america-to-charge-annual-fees/comment-page-1/#comment-1246</link>
		<dc:creator>Balance Transfers Helper</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:44:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Smartest Guy in the Room,

I&#039;m not sure which credit card company you worked for, but I can assure I have no sympathy for the type of company you worked for.  In fact, on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.smartbalancetransfers.com/bad-credit-cards.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;bad credit balance transfers&lt;/a&gt; page of this website, I don&#039;t list these type of credit cards-I provide consumers reasons not to get them.

As to whining about credit card companies, I guess my position could be interpreted that way as perhaps my point was unclear.  Essentially, I believe that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.smartbalancetransfers.com/blog/category/credit-card-issuers/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;credit card companies&lt;/a&gt; will find ways to make the money the new laws take from them by charging good customers more and freezing credit from consumers with average and below average credit.

I don&#039;t think the credit card companies are benevolent friends.  I think they are businesses that need models to control risk while giving consumers access to credit.  Some of the actions of certain credit card companies have been downright evil.  But new credit card laws have only made that worse, and what I am most concerned about is the price we will all be paying to make these companies profitable, not the fact that the poor credit card companies are losing money.  Believe me, they need to make money or else none of us will have access to credit.  Is that what you&#039;d prefer?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Smartest Guy in the Room,</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not sure which credit card company you worked for, but I can assure I have no sympathy for the type of company you worked for.  In fact, on the <a href="http://www.smartbalancetransfers.com/bad-credit-cards.php" rel="nofollow">bad credit balance transfers</a> page of this website, I don&#8217;t list these type of credit cards-I provide consumers reasons not to get them.</p>
<p>As to whining about credit card companies, I guess my position could be interpreted that way as perhaps my point was unclear.  Essentially, I believe that <a href="http://www.smartbalancetransfers.com/blog/category/credit-card-issuers/" rel="nofollow">credit card companies</a> will find ways to make the money the new laws take from them by charging good customers more and freezing credit from consumers with average and below average credit.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t think the credit card companies are benevolent friends.  I think they are businesses that need models to control risk while giving consumers access to credit.  Some of the actions of certain credit card companies have been downright evil.  But new credit card laws have only made that worse, and what I am most concerned about is the price we will all be paying to make these companies profitable, not the fact that the poor credit card companies are losing money.  Believe me, they need to make money or else none of us will have access to credit.  Is that what you&#8217;d prefer?</p>
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		<title>By: Smartest guy in the room</title>
		<link>http://www.smartbalancetransfers.com/blog/2009/10/bank-of-america-to-charge-annual-fees/comment-page-1/#comment-1245</link>
		<dc:creator>Smartest guy in the room</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:39:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Please spare me your whining for credit card companies.  I worked for half a day at a place where they pushed high Interest cards (25-35%) to people who could clearly not afford them.  That is not good business, the credit companies also pushed through the new bankruptcy laws under the racist Bush. Those totally screwed the consumer.  Bottom line, credit companies tried to take advantage of people who didn&#039;t know any better and now they are paying for it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Please spare me your whining for credit card companies.  I worked for half a day at a place where they pushed high Interest cards (25-35%) to people who could clearly not afford them.  That is not good business, the credit companies also pushed through the new bankruptcy laws under the racist Bush. Those totally screwed the consumer.  Bottom line, credit companies tried to take advantage of people who didn&#8217;t know any better and now they are paying for it.</p>
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		<title>By: Balance Transfers Helper</title>
		<link>http://www.smartbalancetransfers.com/blog/2009/10/bank-of-america-to-charge-annual-fees/comment-page-1/#comment-1244</link>
		<dc:creator>Balance Transfers Helper</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:19:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>That&#039;s what you get for being responsible.  You obviously would have been much better off if you paid your credit card late every once in a while and bought things you couldn&#039;t afford.  Wow, we really do live in strange times.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That&#8217;s what you get for being responsible.  You obviously would have been much better off if you paid your credit card late every once in a while and bought things you couldn&#8217;t afford.  Wow, we really do live in strange times.</p>
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		<title>By: Balance Transfers Helper</title>
		<link>http://www.smartbalancetransfers.com/blog/2009/10/bank-of-america-to-charge-annual-fees/comment-page-1/#comment-1243</link>
		<dc:creator>Balance Transfers Helper</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:11:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m not saying we should all cry for credit card companies.  However, the credit card business is losing hundreds of millions of dollars at the best managed banks, like JP Morgan Chase, and the new rules are crimping their profitability, which will mean more costs passed onto consumers so they can make up for the money they can no longer earn the old way.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m not saying we should all cry for credit card companies.  However, the credit card business is losing hundreds of millions of dollars at the best managed banks, like JP Morgan Chase, and the new rules are crimping their profitability, which will mean more costs passed onto consumers so they can make up for the money they can no longer earn the old way.</p>
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		<title>By: Norm Rourke</title>
		<link>http://www.smartbalancetransfers.com/blog/2009/10/bank-of-america-to-charge-annual-fees/comment-page-1/#comment-1242</link>
		<dc:creator>Norm Rourke</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:18:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Okay, your idea(s) make sense. But let&#039;s be fair, haven&#039;t the credit card companies done a land office business over the years with all their fees? And really, are they actually going broke? I pay my card off each month, and I&#039;ll be darned if I&#039;m going to pay a &quot;fee&quot; for the &quot;privilege&quot; of having their card. I&#039;ll search until I find one more friendly to my credit responsiblity. Although your thoughts on government involvement to &quot;protect&quot; consumers may be on target, I&#039;ve no sympathy for BoA or any other credit card issuer. They&#039;re part of the financial crookery that has been allowed to go on...and their CEOs still make big bucks/bonuses.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Okay, your idea(s) make sense. But let&#8217;s be fair, haven&#8217;t the credit card companies done a land office business over the years with all their fees? And really, are they actually going broke? I pay my card off each month, and I&#8217;ll be darned if I&#8217;m going to pay a &#8220;fee&#8221; for the &#8220;privilege&#8221; of having their card. I&#8217;ll search until I find one more friendly to my credit responsiblity. Although your thoughts on government involvement to &#8220;protect&#8221; consumers may be on target, I&#8217;ve no sympathy for BoA or any other credit card issuer. They&#8217;re part of the financial crookery that has been allowed to go on&#8230;and their CEOs still make big bucks/bonuses.</p>
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		<title>By: mromerojr</title>
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		<dc:creator>mromerojr</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:39:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I guess I will be one of those lucky Bank of America (BOA) customers that will see an annual fee on my credit card account.  But fear not.  I have the upper hand.  I belong to two credit unions and I hold a credit card from each membership.  So go ahead BOA hit me with your best shot.  And I promise you that I will dump your credit card as easily as I toss out the garbage.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I guess I will be one of those lucky Bank of America (BOA) customers that will see an annual fee on my credit card account.  But fear not.  I have the upper hand.  I belong to two credit unions and I hold a credit card from each membership.  So go ahead BOA hit me with your best shot.  And I promise you that I will dump your credit card as easily as I toss out the garbage.</p>
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