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- From: cp01081@dcsc.dla.mil (Eric A Yruegas)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers
- Subject: Re: How to cancel a credit card (Mastercard or Visa)
- Message-ID: <1542@dcsc.dla.mil>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 16:54:56 GMT
- References: <22072809441040@vms2.macc.wisc.edu> <14699@umd5.umd.edu>
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- In article <14699@umd5.umd.edu> dmatthews@uap.umd.edu writes:
- >Why not phone them and find out what they require? I suggest the most
- >important thing is timing -- cancel before they send out the bill for your
- >next annual fee.
-
- You mention timing - when I cancelled my Citibank Classic Visa, it was
- right *after* I had been billed for the annual fee... (That was why I was
- cancelling it! :) ) After the long diatribe with the tele-slime who trys
- to get you to keep the card "For all it's benefits," I got a letter in the
- mail about 3 days later - saying that my account balance had been "adjusted"
- for the fees and such - it was removed. That's about the only *good* thing
- I can say about it... :)
-
- Also - I didn't have to "cut-up" or send back the card - they told me to just
- destroy it, or keep it if I thought I would like the account re-activated...
- They never do give up...
-
- Eric
- I don't speak for nobody. Not even my employer. :)
-