Originally posted by: BadThad
BULL Viper! As I stated, I have ALL THE ROOM IN THE WORLD TO BITCH. I guess you haven't done much financing with interest-free account, huh? In my area the majority of them are "same as cash" meaning no monthly payments are due and there's no interest as long as you pay it off before the year is up. :roll:
I have a Beacon score of 1785 and a house-hold income of over $120,000/year buddy. Where do you stand Viper?
How do you have a Beacon score of 1785???

Such a score does not exist.
Interest free does not mean payment free. All that means is that they are not charging you interest. You need to read the contract to find out when you were to make the payments and how they were to apply the payments, or speak with a CSR of that lender to find out their policy, which can vary from lender to lender and loan product to loan product, but is to remain consistent.
As a general rule (to be assumed if you are not sure), payments on installment loans are generally applied in this order: late fees and delinquent finance charges, principal, and then interest. Therefore, pre-payments of principal do not generally relieve the borrower of the responsibility of continuing to make the regular monthly payments. If I pre-pay $20k on my mortgage this month, I still have to make the regular payment next month. OTOH, if I pre-pay a couple of payments' worth on my car loan, that lender for that loan product will then allow me to skip those payments that I pre-paid if I choose to. How do I know this? Because I called and asked, as opposed to just assuming like you did.
Make sense? I hope so.
edit: in your installment loan documents was a form called the "Federal Truth-in-Lending Disclosure". On that form was your payment schedule.