Consumer Affairs has posted up a credit card horror story that we absolutely covet. A phlegmy rope of drool pendulously dangled from our collective royal lip even as we read it. It’s just that good. Why can’t you guys get fucked over like this?
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Reader Actually Likes Bank of America
By 5.15.06
When Bank of America isn’t busy calling their customers liars, they seem to occasionally do the right thing.
Undergrad Credit: Jobless Students Go High APR Calypso
By 5.15.06
Why is it that some snot nosed punk can get over $5 million in credit upon being accepted to college but I, a grown adult, can’t get my credit limit raised by a few hundred bucks to fit a Macbook Pro into the slim wedge of non-debt still imbued into my Hustler Store credit card? Ten years of paying my credit card off only when I happen to remember is probably the answer. The sort of muffed financial sense that makes it all the more absurd that I work for an irreverent consumerist blog.
T-Mobile Trying to Kill Customer, For A Mistake Company Made
By 4.20.06
Through the frosted glass, in walks this dame into our office, she says:
Free Credit Report Nightmare Yields New ‘Screw Off!’ Champ!
By 4.20.06
We think we have a new favorite “go screw” line from a company: We understand that the privacy and security of your information is important to you; therefore we cannot provide a specific reason as to why we cannot fulfill your request. That just punches a steaming hand, Fist of the North Star style, right through the sternum of our old fave, We appreciate your concerns.
Reader Tip: Reduce Credit Card Interest Payments With Micro-banks
By 4.4.06
Reader Wandering Indian Monk wrote us in, linking to a little tip he wrote on his blog about how you might be able to reduce the interest you are paying on your credit card debt.
Citibank’s Statement on the ATM Crisis
By 3.6.06
Citigroup spokesperson Elizabeth Fogarty released the following statement to us regarding the ATM crisis:
Massive Citibank Alert: UPDATE
By 3.6.06
EXCLUSIVE: More dirt on the Citibank ATM failures. What happened after we posed as a concerned customer, as well as secret codes for hassling the Citibank public affairs department after the jump…
Countrywide Mortgage Identity Theft: We Can’t Find the Crime
By 12.21.05
We haven’t been able to determine to what degree the identify theft letters from mortgage companies are legit. But thanks to an astute reader ‘fotonique,’ we’ve discovered what might be the source of the letters being sent out from other mortgage companies, including ABN-AMRO.
