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Old Sep 27, 2018 | 7:48 am
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Originally Posted by bklgafly
I have never in my life NOT paid my full balance at the end of the cycle. I have them all set automatically.

But I recently got approved for the ink cash which has 0% APR for 12 months and I was thinking about taking advantage of it. But how does it work?

Do I just make the min payment each month? No payment? a different way?

Will this hurt my score?
You need to look at the conditions, is it for purchases or for balance transfers or both. For balance transfers there typically is a one time fee (3% or 5%). You then make the minimum payment every month. It won't hurt your credit score unless you run up the utilization, I just took a 25 point hit for running up the utilization on my new Hyatt card to 60% to make the minimum spend. But even if you do get hit, it will go away as you pay down the balance.
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