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- From: rubin@watson.ibm.com (Bill Rubin)
- Subject: Re: ATTN: Citibank Cardholders
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- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.150430.27454@watson.ibm.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 15:04:30 GMT
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- In <9207210250.AA19783@TIS.COM> dave@TIS.COM ("David I. Dalva") writes:
- > The purpose of this note is to alert Citibank cardholders of a slimy, secret
- > program implemented recently by Citibank to a subset (how big?) of their
- > credit card holders. They have quietly moved the payment due dates on some
- > of their credit cards up about a week, effectively reducing by about 25% the
- > advertised grace period. I noticed this when the payment due date on my
- > Citibank AAdvantage MasterCard changed from around the 8th of the month to
- > the 2nd. I called them to complain, and they mumbled something about
- > "conducting an experiment", and immediately restored my old due date.
-
- I am confused here. Did they change the closing date of your statement as
- well or just the due date? Seems to me that the number of days between
- statement closing and the payment due is a part of the cardholder agreement
- and you would need to be notified if it changed.
-
- -- Bill rubin@watson.ibm.com
-