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According to a national survey, when credit card customers called their credit card company, said other companies had offered them lower interest rates, and told their current company that they were going to switch, 56 percent of the time their current company offered them lower rates as an incentive to stay. They dropped an average of five or six percentage points off their annual interest rate, and some of them got perks like zero percent interest for six months. One customer with an exorbitant interest rate managed to reduce it by more than half, encouraging news if you have a credit card for bad credit. Customers suffered no penalties if their credit card issuer refused to lower their interest rates. As long as you are civil, requesting a lower interest rate is a risk free method of improving your interest rate with an excellent chance of succeeding.