I'm sitting here getting a fresh install of XP working on my office PC, and while the SP2 patch installs I happened across this interesting link that has appeared on Outlaw's home page recently. It seems that Outlaw has teamed up with a credit card company to offer an Outlaw-branded credit card that allows for 12-month no-interest on Outlaw purchases over $500. I don't recall hearing of any other internet-direct home theater companies doing this.

As the husband of a former credit card product manager, I'll offer one caveat for anybody who gets one of these: leave this card at home and only use it with Outlaw. If it's like most specialty cards like this, you'd most likely have to pay off those other purchases before payments were applied to the Outlaw order - making it easy for that original Outlaw purchase to linger unless you paid the card off entirely before the 12-month deadline rolled around. Of course, the mere observer in me would also be curious to see what the plastic for this card looks like...

Now I don't have to take that 4th mortgage out for more equipment! Where do I sign up?

Good advice, Gonk. I learned that one long ago with my Sears card.

The no-interest cards are awesome, but only if you use them correctly.

-Joe

This is a huge step for Outlaw and totally awesome fro their customers. In the past, I really had to save and struggle for purchases due to coming up with the dough all at once. Kudos Outlaw! Hopefully other internet companies will follow.

It would appear that Outlaw may have started a trend. Eight months after Outlaw made this announcement last September, a second internet-direct company has done much the same thing - AV123 is also offering a branded GECAF card with some on-interest, no-minimum financing options.