Do you keep a credit card ? Or only a debit ?

Discussion in 'Economics' started by traderwald, Aug 8, 2020.

Do you have a credit card or only a debit card and no credit card ?

  1. Have only debit card

    4 vote(s)
    16.7%
  2. Have both credit card and debit card

    20 vote(s)
    83.3%
  3. Have only debit card, with separate small account for transactions.

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  1. JSOP

    JSOP

    Not if you pay on time.
     
    #81     Aug 10, 2020
  2. JSOP

    JSOP

    P.S.S.S When you are getting mugged by a crackhead...
     
    #82     Aug 10, 2020
  3. JSOP

    JSOP

    You use a bank card that may or may not be a debit card. And actually you can use credit cards also nowadays to withdraw cash just not depositing funds.
     
    #83     Aug 10, 2020
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  4. ironchef

    ironchef

    Turned it down. Hacked a couple of times and decided not worth the trouble. Besides, credit cards have rebates/rewards going way back (years) before they became popular.

    And I can get cash too.
     
    #84     Aug 10, 2020
  5. Hi guys,

    How does a credit card provide protection to transactions that the owner did not make ? How does the owner prove that a transaction is not done by the owner ?

    How soon to be notified and and how to keep track of any transactions so as to notify soon to the credit card provided if one did not do the transactions.

    Reading online it says credit cards are not that safe either. So how is it credit card is safer than the debit based account ?
     
    #85     Aug 10, 2020
  6. Overnight

    Overnight

    Because credit cards have built-in fraud protection, which was strengthened recently, whereby you are not liable for the errant charge if you dispute the charge within a certain amount of time of the charge taking place.

    A debit-based account (i.e., the debit card backed by your checking account) does not offer that protection. Your checking account's money is sucked away immediately. The credit card places the "counterparty risk" in the hands of the credit issuer. Make sense?
     
    #86     Aug 10, 2020
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  7. Overnight

    Overnight

    VERY BAD IDEA, because that is known in credit card parlance as a "cash advance". And if you thought your credit charge APR was bad, go look through your credit card agreement and see what the APR is on a cash advance. *bristles*
     
    #87     Aug 10, 2020
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  8. ironchef

    ironchef

    True. That is why I only do it in a pinch. If I want cash I go to the neighborhood branch and these days almost nobody needs cash.
     
    #88     Aug 10, 2020
  9. do you know it's cheaper to borrow money to trade from your credit card at 0% interest rate for 1 year (than to borrow money from your broker (trading on margin).
     
    #89     Aug 11, 2020
  10. wrbtrader

    wrbtrader

    These days (Pandemic) almost nobody goes to the neighbourhood branch. Prior to the Pandemic, I would see about +20 cars in the parking lot of the bank.

    Now we're in a Pandemic, I see about 5 cars in the parking lot of the bank during typical work hours.

    Yet, drive thru seems to be more busy. :D

    Also, there's been a few times, prior to the Pandemic, I go into a store and their payment terminal is not working (offline). During those times, they only take cash. I was very glad to have cash on me.

    P.S. You must not have kids nor teenagers. Mine...I need to make sure I have cash especially when they go out to do activities with their friends. Yet, during the Pandemic...they haven't been out much even after the stores have reopen.

    wrbtrader
     
    #90     Aug 11, 2020