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- Path: sparky!uunet!olivea!apple!apple!TIS.COM!dave
- From: dave@TIS.COM ("David I. Dalva")
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers
- Subject: Re: ATTN: Citibank Cardholders
- Message-ID: <9207211824.AA13102@TIS.COM>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 13:24:07 GMT
- Sender: daemon@Apple.COM
- Reply-To: dave@TIS.COM
- Followup-To: misc.consumers
- Organization: Trusted Information Systems
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- In article <1992Jul21.150430.27454@watson.ibm.com>, you write:
- > 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.
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- They did not change the closing date. They changed the payment due date.
- How many people here have noticed this?
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- Dave
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