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- From: nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette)
- Subject: Re: ATTN: Citibank Cardholders
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.164810.28674@cs.yale.edu>
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- Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT
- References: <4512@bacon.IMSI.COM>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 16:48:10 GMT
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- In article <4512@bacon.IMSI.COM> jordan@IMSI.COM (Jordan Hayes) writes:
- > Nathan Janette <nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu> writes:
- >
- > If that isn't enough to make you drop them, how about the
- > notice they sent out a month ago about the rates becoming
- > variable instead of fixed. Sounds good at first, until you
- > catch the line that states they can transfer the entire balance
- > to their highest rate (19.8%) if they decide you've been a bad
- > person.
- >
- > Uh, maybe I missed something.
-
- Yes, see below.
-
- > Your interest rate is x%. They say "for being a good customer (any
- > customer is "good" these days :-) we'll drop your rate to (x-y)%, but
- > if you change into a bad customer, it will go back to x%" ... this is
- > bad?
- >
- > I suppose they could have left it at 19.8% and you'd be happy?
-
- It started at 16.8% fixed (gold card). They want to change the
- terms of credit *after* the purchases have been made.
-
- They are offering the chance to gamble in a game of chance
- with the interest rates - but they can declare you the
- loser at any time!
-
- Bye, bye, Citi-stank.
-
- --
- Nathan Janette "I'm a NeXTstep man,
- Dept MB&B, Yale Univ I'm a NeXTcube guy"
- New Haven, CT
- nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu (NeXT)
-
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