{"id":6756,"date":"2016-04-15T18:04:51","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T18:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=6756"},"modified":"2018-12-28T20:25:25","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T20:25:25","slug":"cons-to-getting-department-store-credit-cards-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getyourfreedompass.com\/finance\/credit-cards\/cons-to-getting-department-store-credit-cards-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Cons to Getting Department Store Credit Cards: Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you\u2019ve been thinking about getting a department store card, be careful. Although there are advantages to having them, there are disadvantages as well. In <a href=\"\/credit-cards\/cons-to-getting-department-store-credit-cards-part-1\/\">part one<\/a>, we covered the high interest rates and limited use of store cards. Now, we\u2019re going to cover a couple of more disadvantages that you should be aware of.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Buyer\u2019s Impulse<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Many card holders tend to buy more impulsively when they have a card. Stores want you to spend more and with a card in hand, you may be more likely to do so.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Better Deals Some Place Else:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> This isn\u2019t really a con, but more so a word of advice. Don\u2019t get a card just because they\u2019re offering you 10% or 20% off a purchase for a day. There are some stores offering much better incentives. You just have to keep looking around.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now that you know the cons to having a department store card, you can make a much more informed decision before signing your name on the dotted line.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve been thinking about getting a department store card, be careful. Although there are advantages to having them, there are disadvantages as well. In part<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7089,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/getyourfreedompass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6756"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/getyourfreedompass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/getyourfreedompass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getyourfreedompass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getyourfreedompass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/getyourfreedompass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getyourfreedompass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/getyourfreedompass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getyourfreedompass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getyourfreedompass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}