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		<title>&#8220;Secure&#8221; Login at HSBC Credit Card Website</title>
		<link>http://www.parchayi.com/2011/05/06/secure-login-at-hsbc-credit-card-website/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 13:05:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sidd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have an HSBC Credit Card, here is a security warning for you: The website http://www.hsbccreditcard.com/ is not secure and their &#8220;Secure Login&#8221; is also not secure. You should always look for https:// in the URL to make sure that a site is secure. Just having the words &#8220;Secure&#8221; and  a padlock does not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Credit Card Rates Up, Benefits Down</title>
		<link>http://www.parchayi.com/2009/11/11/credit-card-rates-up-benefits-down/</link>
		<comments>http://www.parchayi.com/2009/11/11/credit-card-rates-up-benefits-down/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:16:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sidd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Parchayi and me both have credit scores in the 800s, always pay all bills on time etc. and in spite of that we have been seeing notices from credit card companies every few months increasing rates and reducing benefits. It seems we are not alone and banks are just jerks who will do as they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Lifelock</title>
		<link>http://www.parchayi.com/2008/05/22/free-lifelock/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 20:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sidd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is how to get Lifelock (a service that puts a Fraud Alert on your behalf at all the credit reporting agencies automatically every 90 days) for Free. Go to their Enrollment Form and enter &#8216; or 1 or &#8216; with the quotes included and voila &#8211; the service goes down to 0$ annualy. Wonderfull [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Credit Score Whoring TM</title>
		<link>http://www.parchayi.com/2007/01/23/credit-score-whoring-tm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jan 2007 18:27:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sidd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine who graduated with me was refused an interview at a DC company because his GPA was less than 3.5 and he used the term &#8216;GPA whore&#8217; for the company. Thus leads to the birth of my new term &#8211; &#8216;Credit Score Whoring&#8217; TM (CSW) &#8211; trying to artificially raise your FICO [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Credit Card Interest Rates &#8211; Ask for Less?</title>
		<link>http://www.parchayi.com/2007/01/12/credit-card-interest-rates-ask-for-less/</link>
		<comments>http://www.parchayi.com/2007/01/12/credit-card-interest-rates-ask-for-less/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jan 2007 16:34:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sidd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over at Yahoo Finance today, I found this article &#8211; Negotiate a Lower Credit-Card Rate from the Wall Street Journal. The artice goes on to say that credit card companies will lower your interest rate if you ask for a lower rate. Most of my credit cards are low fixed rate cards, plus I haven&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HSBC Credit Card Merger &#8211; Part 3 &#8211; Final Part</title>
		<link>http://www.parchayi.com/2006/09/05/hsbc-credit-card-merger-part-3-final-part/</link>
		<comments>http://www.parchayi.com/2006/09/05/hsbc-credit-card-merger-part-3-final-part/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Sep 2006 19:51:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sidd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I mentioned the procedure of merging HSBC cards before here and finally sometime last week or the week before that, HSBC merged my credit cards and the new limit is the combined limit of the cards. Yipee!]]></description>
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		<title>HSBC Credit Card Consolidation Part 2</title>
		<link>http://www.parchayi.com/2006/08/08/hsbc-credit-card-consolidation-part-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.parchayi.com/2006/08/08/hsbc-credit-card-consolidation-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Aug 2006 21:04:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sidd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continuing my story on attempting to merge two HSBC credit cards, I received a letter from HSBC asking me to fill out an account consolidation request which basically was information similar to a new credit card application. So it is not so very easy to merge cards, inspite of the fact that I manage them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Credit Cards If You Have No Credit History</title>
		<link>http://www.parchayi.com/2006/05/12/credit-cards-if-you-have-no-credit-history/</link>
		<comments>http://www.parchayi.com/2006/05/12/credit-cards-if-you-have-no-credit-history/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 May 2006 19:16:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sidd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have no credit history, some people/sites may lead you into getting credit cards that have an annual fee or some sort of payment involved to get credit and establish a history. However you almost never need to go that way. You have several options depending on whether you are a student or not. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Merge Credit Cards &#8211; Don&#8217;t Close Accounts</title>
		<link>http://www.parchayi.com/2006/05/12/merging-credit-cards/</link>
		<comments>http://www.parchayi.com/2006/05/12/merging-credit-cards/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 May 2006 14:12:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sidd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have too many credit cards to manage, you can simplify things by merging credit cards that are offered by the same bank. All banks do that for you in a single call. The credit card merger will give you one card that has the combined credit limit of both the cards. This will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Credit Score forever</title>
		<link>http://www.parchayi.com/2006/05/12/free-credit-score-forever/</link>
		<comments>http://www.parchayi.com/2006/05/12/free-credit-score-forever/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 May 2006 00:16:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sidd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can get one credit report from every credit reporting agency free per year from annualcreditreport.com, however they still charge you if you want to see your FICO credit score. Providian offers your credit score free every month if you have any Providian Credit Card, at their website. Also offered are alerts if your score [...]]]></description>
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