Thursday 9 June 2011

Important Tips For Credit Shopping

By Dana McLean


In the last couple of years, much of the credit industry has changed and when shopping for credit the most important advice remained the same throughout the period. That advice would be giving yourself the best chances of getting the best credit deals that are open to you and therefore you have to shop around.

How to Find Credit Online

The good news is that the Internet has made this shopping around a lot easier in recent years. There are many websites now that specialise completely in finding you the best credit deals available. From a wide range of lenders they compare all the offers and would guide you to exactly the offers that would best suit you. You can do all your research and shopping around in a fraction of the time it used to take before the Internet was widely used because in many cases, you can apply or get a quote right there on the website.

Don't Forget to Ask for the APR

In recent years, another development that has come about and has really made shopping for a credit easier and more effective is introducing the rules regulating the calculation of APR.

APR, standing for annual percentage rate, is a fixed formula that by law, all lenders must use when they calculate the cost of a loan that they provide to you. This means that you can ask all lenders for their APR and they will have much less scope to hide their true costs and extra charges. They will have to give you the APR and you can take this with you and compare it to all the other APRs on the market.

It's Important to Have Credits

Becoming all the more important in recent years is shopping for credit. There are many situations these days in which using a credit card is the only way to pay for a good or service. Booking a hotel abroad, or shopping online, or even renting a car, are all impossible unless you have access to credit cards. The importance of being able to find the very best deals when you are shopping for credit has also increased as the circumstances in which you need to use the cards have increased.

More indebted now than ever before is the UK consumer and this has been well publicized in the press. To make savings on interest payments and get better value on credit, you must be able to shop effectively for credit.




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