Credit-card `excesses' examined

Imagine that you just picked up a terrific pair of Lacoste sneakers on sale. Then, the phone rings a month or two later. The store is demanding that you hand over more money for the same shoes sitting in your closet.

Crazy talk, huh?

That's how it works in the whacked-out world of credit-card companies. They've got ways to zing you even when you think you're in the clear. Amazingly, they're getting away with it.

For now.

It's getting harder -- some might say downright impossible -- to be savvy when it comes to credit cards.

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