Amazon Price Comparison

The Daily Mail has a list of various products that are cheaper elsewhere than on Amazon, and point out that retail giant paid less than £1 million corporation tax on revenues of £4.5 billion.
In 2010, it didn’t pay a anything on UK sales totalling £3.3 billion.

Unfortuantely at the end of the article it lists various 'cashback' credit cards, with links to them. They say "Clever Christmas shoppers can earn hundreds of pounds a year by ditching their debit card in favour of a cashback credit card. "

Oh really, and since when were credit cards in the business of giving away money! Clearly this is just a marketing tactic to get people into debt and know that although some will get cashback many others will be giving plenty of their cash in interest payments! The real clever Christmas shoppers will use a debit card and only spend what they have, and not owe a penny after Christmas.

A Prosperous & Healthy New Year To You All!

Readers, wishing you all a happy 2012, make a great start to 2012 by confronting your debts and seek advice. (see post about CCCS below) and if you have a credit card with a balkance cut the blinking thing up into 2012 pieces, it'll stop you using it and help you escape from being shackled to billion pound corporations who want you to remain forever in their debt.

Cut up Your Credit Card

How about at 12 midnight on the 31st December you cut up your credit card into 12 pieces, and bin it. You will then not have the temptation to buy anything with it, and can focus on clearing the debt. Make no mistake it can be very hard, especially if you rely on it for bills etc, but you'll find that if you haven't got it, and you can't afford a bill on a particular day for say electricity, all it means is that the electricity company has to wait until you are paid. The big utility companies etc must love the fact everyone has credit cards because it means they get paid when they want and do not have to wait until people have money to pay them.

Credit cards are not a 'service' they have been designed to leech as much money out of lenders as possible. They have interest rates set at a level so people never pay them back. Notice when the Euro crisis was happening they mentioned about countries like Greece getting bonds at 7%. This was the level of interest the journalists was saying was the limit before countries would not be able to pay back the debts, a credit card typical interest will be 18%, so clearly they are at a level that the financial press have let slip is way beyond a rate that can be paid back. They are a monumental rip off and if I was PM they would be banned from Britain!