Debit Cards aka Prepaid Credit Cards

Debit cards (or prepaid credit cards) are a completely different way of looking at the world than the credit card groups in the “low” categories. Prepaid credit cards are simply credit cards where you have to put real money in the account before you can make purchases on them.

In other words, rather than the credit card company fronting you the credit you need to make a purchase (the method in which conventional credit cards work), a prepaid credit card requires that you upload money into an account that the credit card works from and then use the card to make purchases that lower the amount of money that you have left in that account.

At this point many people that are reading this article might be wondering what is so special about prepaid credit cards. In fact, the concept of prepaid credit cards might make them seem similar to debit cards and if they are similar to debit cards then they are not really credit cards at all.

Well, this is certainly an accurate way of looking at things and it is because of their similarity to debit cards that you will really only see one group of people using prepaid credit cards. These people are people with credit so poor that no other credit card is available to them.

Prepaid credit cards are a way for people with poor credit or in some cases no credit to repair or build up their credit in a way that is financially secure for the credit card company they are working with. This is why most people that are on prepaid credit cards are only on them temporarily before switching back to something else.

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