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 UK EGG CREDIT CARDS


Egg Credit Cards

Egg credit card accounts offer some of the most competitive rates in the credit card industry in the UK. The card comes in funky designs and has adopted itself to Internet banking. One can open up an account easily and its online management tool is easy to work with. Egg credit card was formed by the Prudential.

Some of the great benefits of Egg credit cards include:-

  • You can transfer balances from credit, loans or overdrafts at a minimum balance of £100. You can also transfer balances from more than one financial provider. The transfer process takes a maximum of ten days. The beauty of this is that it can be done easily online by the click of a mouse once you open up an account! A handling fee of 2% is applied to the balance transfers made in your introductory balance transfer period .
  • As a reward for loyal customers, Egg cards offer customers 0% interest on balance transfers for up to five months. This special rate applies to balances transferred in the anniversary month of the month your account was first opened. For example, if you applied for an Egg credit card on 1-Jan- 2005, you get the anniversary offer every year until 2007!
  • Applications for Egg cards is done online so you are free from the hassles involved in paperwork and it take only a few minutes to complete your application. Add to the fact that managing your account online is so much easier.
  • If you regularly pay your balances off in full every month, you benefit from an interest-free period of up to 45 days on all purchases. For cash advances and balance transfers you'll be charged interest from the day the transaction goes onto your account.
  • The minimum credit limit on offer is £500
  • There is no annual fee charged on this card! Because everything is done online, it costs less to administer the account so the savings are passed down to you.
  • The card comes with an IInternet guarantee ie, you are covered covered against any fraudulent transactions carried out without your consent, whatever the amount.
  • You recieve upto 10% cash back at selected online retailers
  • Only the residents of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland can apply.

Fees associated with Egg credit cards

  • You are charged £20 if:-
    *If you don't keep up with your payments.
    *If you go over your credit limit.
    *If a payment is returned due to lack of funds.
  • When you pay for purchases in foreign currency, a charge of 2.65% s applied to the purchase amount.
  • Egg charges £2 for each monthly paper statement you request. If you have printer you can easily print the statements online and avoid this fee.
  • There's a fee of 2% charged on cash advance (with the minimum fee being £2). However, if you are already an Egg customer when you apply for an Egg Card, you won't be charged the cash advance fee. Interest is charged from the day the cash advance shows on your account. The interest rate is 20.9% pa variable.


 

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