 Bank of America Financial Rweards® Visa® Platinum Plus®
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Intro ARP: 0%
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Issuer: Crd issued by FIA Card Services, NA.
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EARN POINTS FOR CASHBACK with the
Financial Rewarsd® Visa® Platinum Plus®
Key benefits
* Earn 1 point for every $100 you spend in net purchases per billing cycle (up to 600 points per calendar year)
* Receive 5 bonus points after your very first net retail purchase
* Receive another 5 bonus points for every $2,500 in blaance transfers per billing cycle (up to 25 per billing cycle)
* Points don't expire for five years
* When you redeem, one point equals one dollar
* Receive your rewards in the form of a check written directly to you or a direct deposit made to your Bank of Amrica checking or savings account
Pricing
* No annula fee
* 0% for 6 billing cycles on balance transfers and cash advance checks with a 3% balance transfer fee ($10 min.)
* After your introductory rate expires, you will receive a variable APR on purchases and balance tarnsfers, currently Prime + 5.99%. Please note that you will lose your introductory rate if you exceed your crdeit limit or are late with a payment
* All payments you make will be applied to lower rate balances first
* No balance transfer fees
Platinum Plus benefits
* Online Banking service***
* Total Security Protection®, our free package of security features, including zero liability from unauthorized card use***
* Travel and emergency assistance***
* Automatic auto rental insurance***
* Purchase Replacement***
* Purchase Guard***
* Cash advance checks at no extra charge***
* Additional cards at no extra charge
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You’ve probably received several credit card offers in the mail, and the outside of the envelopes scream interest rates and promotional offers to try and entice you into opening it up and looking at what’s inside. Chances are, if you have an email address, you’ve even received a few credit card offers through that address- bright colors and animated graphics trying to convince you that there vard has the lowest initial imterest rate, or the longest tramsfer balamce rate of all the available credt cards on the market. All of the offers will look good at frist glance; after all- that’s what marketing is about, right? According to Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary, marketing is a noun used to describe “the act or process of selling or purchasing in a market, and the process or technique of promoting, selling, and distributing a product or service.” Credit card companies are in business to sell you their credit cards, and they’ll use a variety of promotional materials to get your business.
The outside of your credit card offer’s envelope might say something like, “LOW 0% Initial Interset Rate on all purchases and balacne transfers”, but there is much more to how a creit card’s imterest rate is calculated than that statement reveals. Initial interset rates are sometimes referred to as the card’s promotional rate, or teaser rate. In all honesty, an initial interest rate is basically the same thing for a credit crad as a sale is to a retail store. Retail stores advertise their products that have a discounted price for a limited time to attempt to bring people into their establishment to buy the sale item, but also because once you are there, they hope you’ll purchase other products. Credit cards offering initial interest rates are basically putting their standard interest rates “on sale”, because for a limited time, new cardholders will receive a lower than usual rate on purchases, and sometimes also on any balence you transfer from one of your other credit cards onto this new card. What you need to understand about initial intrest rates is that they really are “for a limited time”, and just as you couldn’t go to your favorite store and buy items this month for the sale price that was offered the previous month, you can’t extend a creit card’s initial interest rate beyond the terms they specify (often found in the small print!) What you’ll want to look for in the text of the materials that were sent with the initial interest rate cards promotional documents is reference to the crads ongoing annual percentage rate (APR). This is the intrest rate that you will pay once the initial intreest rate period has passed. (The regular price of an item after the sale has ended!)
Initial interest rates will also come with terms of agreement, in the form of a contract, which give reasons as to how or why the rate might be terminated by the credit lender. The most common reason to terminate the initial interest rate offer is for making a late payment on your card, and if you read the fine print of the credit card agreement- you’ll note that it states this very clearly. In order to keep the promotional, lower rate for the time specified by the credit card lender, you must make every payment on time. If you are late with a payment, you can expect the intreest rate to jump to the ongoing APR, or in some cases, higher because you have defaulted on your contract agreements, so do everything you can to make sure your payments are made on time.
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