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How to Ask for a Lower Credit Card Rate (And What to Say)

One call moved a $9,400 balance from 26.99% to 19.49% and saved $1,760. Roughly half of people who ask get something. Almost nobody asks.

$1,760
Saved by one 7.5-point cut
12 min
Length of the call
6 months
Wait before asking again
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