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Article #21950Credit Card rates are they Legal!!?-Help
From: KWAME03
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 1994 03:01
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 1994 03:01
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Please help? A friend of mind that works for a major bank informed me that banks cannot charge over 14.9% on credit card rates. Yet many do. Also, I thought former President Bush made the law dealing with the Treasury Bill auction rate. Furthermore, according to Missouri law Article 4 CSR 140-6.025 Variable Rate Credit. Basically it states that, (Quote) " The Division of finance will consider a variable rate credit transaction in compliance if it bears a rate up o twenty-four percent(24%) which does not exceed two (2) the rate established by the treasury bill auction immediately preceding the beginning of the calendar quarter (January 1 through March 31, April 1 through June 30, July 1 through September 30, October 1 through december 31) or, with open-end credit, the calendar month, January 1 through January 31, February 1 through 28(29)......" The example says that if the Treasury Bill rate during the last auction quarter is 7% then the interest rate could not exceed 14 % for the next quarter. If this is not so, please explain or interpret this for me. I feel that consumers are being cheated. Also, is there a way to regulate Automobile Insurance agencies. In my opinion they are truly getting over on people. Think of this, a person pays 500 average bi-anually for 20 years and never had an accident. This person has given the agency more than $20,000. This is perposterous. You never get any of that money back. This is a ripoff. Maybe I don't what I am talking about. However, I wish for someone to justify these outrageous rates. I would like for other people to help me start a campaign to get people to write their members of Congress. Congress must come up with laws to stop this madness. I know that PAC's have bought our Congressman. However, just think of people over this network doing something for the good of all! If anyone can offer any help please respond!!! Thanks, Kwame03 MPowell I will write more later concerning these issues (better examples).
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 106ed4,c22e5ccd011a715b,start X-Google-Attributes: gid106ed4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-04-19 02:32:53 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!uunet!hp81.prod.aol.net!search01.news.aol.com!not-for-mail From: kwame03@aol.com (KWAME03) Newsgroups: ca.general Subject: Credit Card rates are they Legal!!?-Help Date: 18 Apr 1994 23:01:05 -0400 Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364) Lines: 33 Sender: news@search01.news.aol.com Message-ID: <2ovhhh$fnh@search01.news.aol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: search01.news.aol.com