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- From: rcarter@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ron Carter)
- Subject: Re: Citybank Choice card
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.013803.19121@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 92 01:38:03 GMT
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- schep@math.scarolina.edu (Anton Schep) writes:
-
- >My wife got in the mail an offer for the Citybank Choice Visacard and
- >I was wondering whether there was a catch to the offer: no fee, 25 day
- >grace period, and upto 2% rebate! This seems to make the card more
- >attractive than e.g. the Discover Card. I know that their interest
- >rates suck, but we don't care, since we pay off the balance each month.
-
- There doesn't seem to be any catch at all; got the same offer from
- Citibank myself, and I will gladly accept a better `kickback' than
- Discover any day... The grocery store I shop at accepts plastic,
- so I now am in one of the higher (read: higher rebates!) percentage
- brackets... I love it! And I do the same as you in paying off the
- balance every month, so...
-
- >The only suspicious thing I noticed in the fine print was, that this
- >offer was not valid for current Citybank cardholders. Does this mean
- >that they plan to change the terms on me a year from now?
-
- Looks like Citibank is just trying to attract `new' customers with
- this offer; after all, it doesn't need to attract customers they
- already have... Their notice of `has no annual fee. And never will.'
- sounds good to me... Sounds like a winner; already sent back the app.
-
- BTW, the `old' Choice card (pre Visa) didn't have a fee, but I got
- rid of it when it establish a fee, but then they didn't have a
- `never will' clause, either...
-
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