White-Label Product or Service

A white label product or service is a product or service produced by one company (the producer) that other companies (the marketers) rebrand to make it appear as if they made it.

So if you just know what Companies produce what products or provide what services, you could start a business providing their products and services and just rebranded or with a different appearance. Of course you need a contract with the original producer as well.

The producer Company would often be happy to provide you this because obviously their sale and revenue will be increased.

Therefore, we now understand the concept of:

• White Label Music
• White Label Clothing
• White Label Food
• White Label Software
• White Label Seed
• ...

Nominal APR and Effective APR (EAR)

These are about how much interest you have to pay when you get a loan or overdraft:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annual_percentage_rate

AER is a compounded interest and that's the real interest that you finally pay.

Example:

For example, imagine you have a Current Plus account from NatWest and you are allowed to have an overdraft of up to £2000. You use £1000 of your overdraft on 1/1/2009. If you don't pay anything back monthly because the AER is %19.24, according to this site, after 1 year what you have to pay back is 1,192.4 (base + base * 19.24 / 100). This amount is your new base and any further payment is calculated based on that so

If you don't pay back anything after 2 years your debt is:

1,192.4 + 1,192.4 * 19.24 / 100 = 1,421.82

After 3 years your debt is:

1,421.82 + 1,421.82 * 19.24 / 100 = 1,695.38

After 4 years your debt is:

1,695.38 + 1,695.38 * 19.24 / 100 = 2021.57

As you can see after 4 years time, your debt has been doubled. Also you have exceeded your overdraft limit, so you will be charged for that too and the debt can easy reach to a higher amount.

So, be careful of your debts and know well how they are calculated.

Bank's Profit:

On the other hand, if you have saved £1000 in your NatWest bank account and haven't touched it for 1 year, the net interest bank pays you is %0.08, according to this site, which means after 1 year you will have £1000.80.

As you can see for a £1000, Bank sells it for £194.20 a year whereas it buys it for only 80 pence; So much profit!

If you see it for longer periods the profits will be much larger.

When Government lowers the interest rate, one immediate consequence of that is that they want to help the banks make more profits essentially.

The worth of your money

Another interesting point I want to make is that Your £1000 in 2009 isn't worth the same in 2010 simply because of the inflation rate. Assuming the inflation rate is %5 per year then your £1000 in 2009 is worth £950 in 2010.

What I mean is that if you have saved money in bank hoping to get some interest then you're making your bank richer and yourself poorer.

Think more to find a better alternative.