Re: fun with your credit rating

On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 00:52:12 +0000 (UTC), goldfarb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(David Goldfarb) wrote:

>In article
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> <johan.g.larson@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>Back in college, I had a professor who said his hobby was Credit
>>Cards. He was trying to goad his credit card issuers into raising his
>>credit limit high enough to be able to buy a car with plastic. 
>
>I've had just one credit card for about half my life; I've kept it
>paid off and never used it terribly much.  My bank has kept raising
>the limit on it (I assume to try to encourage me to use the card more)
>to the point where nowadays I *could* buy a car with it -- not a luxury
>car, to be sure, but something like a Honda Civic, yes.

According to Clark Howard on his consumer-advice radio show, the card
compoanies call people like you "deadbeats".