Comments on: Platinum card, brass balls http://www.dustbury.com/archives/9284 I couldn't possibly fail to disagree with you less. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:23:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Kay Dennison http://www.dustbury.com/archives/9284/comment-page-1#comment-24490 Kay Dennison Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:28:16 +0000 http://www.dustbury.com/?p=9284#comment-24490 Highway robbery!!!! Highway robbery!!!!

]]> By: CGHill http://www.dustbury.com/archives/9284/comment-page-1#comment-24468 CGHill Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:24:05 +0000 http://www.dustbury.com/?p=9284#comment-24468 Actually, I've done exactly that on occasion. Up through about 2007, this process managed to get some mitigation of the atrocity some 40 percent of the time. It has not been successful since. (See, for instance, <a href="http://www.dustbury.com/vent/vent358.html" rel="nofollow">this</a>.) Actually, I’ve done exactly that on occasion.

Up through about 2007, this process managed to get some mitigation of the atrocity some 40 percent of the time. It has not been successful since.

(See, for instance, this.)

]]> By: fillyjonk http://www.dustbury.com/archives/9284/comment-page-1#comment-24466 fillyjonk Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:00:26 +0000 http://www.dustbury.com/?p=9284#comment-24466 Small shreds of the card sent back in one of their postage-paid envelopes, with a hotly-worded letter on just why what they are trying to do is a bad deal? If a lot of their customers did it, maybe they'd change. I realize that may not be practical (cancelling the account an all). But boy, would it be *satisfying* Small shreds of the card sent back in one of their postage-paid envelopes, with a hotly-worded letter on just why what they are trying to do is a bad deal? If a lot of their customers did it, maybe they’d change.

I realize that may not be practical (cancelling the account an all). But boy, would it be *satisfying*

]]> By: CGHill http://www.dustbury.com/archives/9284/comment-page-1#comment-24464 CGHill Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:17:20 +0000 http://www.dustbury.com/?p=9284#comment-24464 I'd find that slightly less abhorrent, which makes it, in my experience, substantially less likely. I’d find that slightly less abhorrent, which makes it, in my experience, substantially less likely.

]]> By: Sean Gleeson http://www.dustbury.com/archives/9284/comment-page-1#comment-24461 Sean Gleeson Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:57:51 +0000 http://www.dustbury.com/?p=9284#comment-24461 Are you sure that's what it means? Will it really charge the 1/12 fee "after 30 days"? Because I would interpret that "For each subsequent year" clause as meaning it will start charging the monthly fee after a full year has elapsed. Are you sure that’s what it means? Will it really charge the 1/12 fee “after 30 days”? Because I would interpret that “For each subsequent year” clause as meaning it will start charging the monthly fee after a full year has elapsed.

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