Re: fun with your credit rating

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.

We toyed with doing this when I bought my 2004 Honda Civic DX (with AC), 
but chickened out .. in part due to the knowledge that Visa/Mastercard 
charge a percentage fee and we didn't think the car dealer would go for
it.
  So we just wrote a check.

Nels

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