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- From: burger@convex1.tcs.tulane.edu (The Rodman)
- Subject: Re: ATTN: Citibank Cardholders
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.175603.20407@cs.tulane.edu>
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- Organization: Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
- References: <9207210250.AA19783@TIS.COM>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 17:56:03 GMT
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- In article <9207210250.AA19783@TIS.COM> dave@TIS.COM 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 guess the main purpose of the experiment is to see how many suckers, umm,
- >customers would notice. I don't know how many customers this affects, but
- >it's worth checking out.
- >
- My payment date was also moved up about 5 days. I called Citibank, and the
- woman I spoke with said that there could be a couple of reasons why the due
- date could have been pushed forward, such as if a holiday falls on a certain
- date or the computers being down. But she didn't say why the dates had
- been pushed up in this particular instance and she said she knew nothing
- about an experiment. When I asked her, "Shouldn't you let people know that
- thei due dates have been moved forward because of a downed computer or
- whatever?", she had no answer. I did get her to push my due date back to
- where it had been before, though.
-
- Just another data point,
- --The Rodman
-
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