If you have bad credit, then you should know you can use unsecured credit cards to help rebuild your creditworthiness. Of course, your chances of getting unsecured credit cards depends upon your credit rating, earning potential and financial stability. If you are eligible, you can choose from a MasterCard, Visa or other major "brand."
How Unsecured Credit Cards Work
If you apply for unsecured credit cards, you will have to make a small deposit, the amount of which depends upon the provider you choose to apply to. This serves as a security deposit for the lenders in case you fail to make your payments. You will then be allowed to have a credit line of that amount which you have deposited. The main advantage of these credit cards is that you can easily withdraw cash if you have an emergency arise.
You are going to find that the APR (Annual Percentage Rate), card fees, account set-up fees, and programs fees for these credit cards are relatively high. Their credit limit is going to be somewhere between $250 to $500. However, this credit limit can be gradually increased by the lender if you make regular payments.
There are flexible payment plans and other free services that are provided by the lenders of these unsecured credit cards. However, you are going to need to guard against scams that can easily take place via fraudulent emails, letters, and telephone calls. This is why it is so very important that you take very good care of your credit card. This starts by doing proper research when you are first starting out because you really do not want to select a bad credit card provider. Therefore, you are going to have to be cautious about some lenders who will charge you high fees that come in the form of yearly rates and other charges that are hidden quite well sometimes.
A lot of these credit card companies who are offering this type of a credit card are now willing to take applications over the Internet so that you can get an instant approval. Of course, you are going to need to wait until you have the credit card in your hand before you can start using it. This will be mailed to you through the United States Postal Service. Nevertheless, the Internet is still considered to be the best source to these credit cards.
