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Jeremy's right, you always have to read the fine print. Some will also charge you a very high interest rate on purchases. So make sure you A. don't make any new purchases or cash advances and B. are able to pay it off (ideally) within the low APR period.
Also there is usually a service fee of 1-3% to do the balance transfer, so you have to calculate how much interest that is effectively considering it is not for a full year, its only for a few months you're paying that $$.
For example, 12% interest on 1,000 is 120 after one year.
3% interest service fee on 1,000 is 30, but if your 0% is only for 3 months, you need to multiply that by 4, and hey...guess what, it's effectively 12%.
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