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the 3000 is a LINE OF CREDIT, not your balance. You can charge up to 3000 at any one time before additional charges would be declined. If you sent them a check for 3500 when you had a zero balance, they would either return your check, or credit the payment and show you temporarily having a 6500 line of credit--the 3000 they authorized you to spend plus the 3500 you paid them. You would NOT get interest on this balance, nor would it improve your credit rating in any way. Put your 3500 in an investment earning 5% or better if you can find it and enjoy the interest that way. Keep the money available to always pay your credit card balance in full by the monthly due date and that will improve your credit rating. The bank will also increase your available credit, but BEWARE: They do this because they do not like you paying off in full every month, and they hope you will spend more on the card than you can pay off, so you have to make minimum payments, or any amount less than the full balance. That is how they make their big profits--credit card interest--check the rates they get--those are often near 30 per cent--OUTRAGEOUS what they can get away with.
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