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Jun. 20th, 2011 09:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livingdebMy credit card company is discontinuing the credit card I applied for (you get 3% rewards on all purchases made a grocery stores, gas stations, and drug stores and 1% on everything else). They are replacing it with a card I've already rejected once (you get 5% rewards on 3 categories at random each quarter--if you remember to apply each quarter to have those count--and those categories are usually ones I never use. They don't have a category for dance classes or flood insurance.)
They explain, "That means you can now earn even more cash back." There's not even an asterisk on that statement. (How can we teach our children how to read this crap?)
They'll be sending the new card in the mail at which point they tell me I should immediately destroy the old one and start using the new one.
How will they know when I've gotten it, I ask myself evilly.
Maybe this should be like when my college's financial aid department claimed that my family could afford to contribute $2000 per year, and that from the $900 I was making that summer, I would be able to save $1100 for college, so in return, I claimed that I had saved nothing over the previous year.
Similarly, since the credit card people claim that I will be getting more rewards, I could claim that I haven't gotten the card for as long as possible.
Hey, they've even given me a clue about how long they will let me get away with this. On the one hand, "You will begin earning points with every purchase you make beginning on or about June 24, 2011," so that's when they probably think I'll get it. On the other hand, "It will arrive by August 15, 2011." So, that's almost 2 months I can wait (possibly without them hassling me). My card doesn't expire until 10/11, though, so that's another possible answer.
During the July - September quarter, the categories are gas, hotels, and airlines. (It seems like they like to have themes--for this summer, they are helping us travel.) I think I'll hold off awhile. Do they have to let me use it until October if I don't screw up? I have no idea.
Quote of the Day (on baby carriers) - 'I was earnestly tempted to invent the sport of “extreme baby-wearing” just so that we could get something that was, you know, useful (the sport would start with a team of adults with an infant and you’d have to feed hir while in the carrier, cross rough terrain, do transfers from adult-to-adult to demonstrate the ease-of-attaching/removing baby/carrier, get on/off public transport (including sitting down and standing/strap-hanging poses), tie your shoes (while carrying) and untangle two large (but friendly) mutts’ intertwined leashes.' - bogart
They explain, "That means you can now earn even more cash back." There's not even an asterisk on that statement. (How can we teach our children how to read this crap?)
They'll be sending the new card in the mail at which point they tell me I should immediately destroy the old one and start using the new one.
How will they know when I've gotten it, I ask myself evilly.
Maybe this should be like when my college's financial aid department claimed that my family could afford to contribute $2000 per year, and that from the $900 I was making that summer, I would be able to save $1100 for college, so in return, I claimed that I had saved nothing over the previous year.
Similarly, since the credit card people claim that I will be getting more rewards, I could claim that I haven't gotten the card for as long as possible.
Hey, they've even given me a clue about how long they will let me get away with this. On the one hand, "You will begin earning points with every purchase you make beginning on or about June 24, 2011," so that's when they probably think I'll get it. On the other hand, "It will arrive by August 15, 2011." So, that's almost 2 months I can wait (possibly without them hassling me). My card doesn't expire until 10/11, though, so that's another possible answer.
During the July - September quarter, the categories are gas, hotels, and airlines. (It seems like they like to have themes--for this summer, they are helping us travel.) I think I'll hold off awhile. Do they have to let me use it until October if I don't screw up? I have no idea.
Quote of the Day (on baby carriers) - 'I was earnestly tempted to invent the sport of “extreme baby-wearing” just so that we could get something that was, you know, useful (the sport would start with a team of adults with an infant and you’d have to feed hir while in the carrier, cross rough terrain, do transfers from adult-to-adult to demonstrate the ease-of-attaching/removing baby/carrier, get on/off public transport (including sitting down and standing/strap-hanging poses), tie your shoes (while carrying) and untangle two large (but friendly) mutts’ intertwined leashes.' - bogart