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The bill adds up. Example, if you have a $200 debt on your credit card. You don't pay it for a month, then it jumps to, let's just say $250. Next month $300, month after that $350, $400, $450,....

In short the bill gets bigger.

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First, you start getting dirty phone calls from your creditors. And they continue until they go collections. Then it gets ugly. Your credit scores starts to plummet, because you have bad credit you can't get a job, you can't buy a house, you can't buy a car...all because you decide to quit paying your bills.

This in turn starts jacking up interests rates, not just for you personally, but also company wide, to make up for the loss.

If you are really lucky, the credit card will not take legal action and sue you. Hope you have a good lawyer if that happens.

Once the mess you created is fixed, then, just maybe in five years, your score will be good enough to get a high-interest credit card or loan. Maybe.

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after 180 days of non payment your account will be charged off and turned over to collection agency


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