Email from MBNA AOPA

kontiki wrote:


Those points you earn from a credit card company is just a small
'kickback' they use as incentive to get you to buy stuff with a
credit card... so they can skim 3 - 5% off the top of every sale.

Yeah, but that's not where the real profits come from. The real
profits are from the usurious interest rates and fees charged to
those who don't pay the bill off completely each month.

Roy Smith wrote:
In article . com,
"Robert M. Gary" wrote:

Walt wrote:
In my experience, MBNA is a complete rip-off. I got rid of their card
quite some time ago (the one I got through AOPA).

I don't use credit cards much but when I do it's my USAA card.

Too bad, I get lots of points from my credit cards. I just got a $300
digital camera almost for free with points. And it doesn't cost me a
penny, the merchants pay for the entire thing.

-Robert

One way or another, you're paying for it.

I'm sharing the cost with you. Merchants are not allowed to charge
extra for credit cards so they charge you (the cash buyer) extra to pay
for my credit card, which I then get 5% cash back with. So, in a sense
*you* are paying for my rebates. I'm fine with that.

-Robert

Wow... what timing.... I am currently on hold with my credit card company
because somebody charged $525.05 to it on Friday for some computer parts...
We are working as quickly as possible to answer your call, thankyou for your
patience...
Jim

"Jim Burns" wrote in
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computer parts... We are working as quickly as possible to answer your
call, thankyou for your patience...
Jim

How, exactly, are they working as quickly as possible to answer your call.
Are they hanging up on everyone else in the Queue?

Nah... turns out they were transfering them to the same non effective
automated answering machine that I ended up with. How am I supposed to
know either the order number or the invoice number for something that
somebody else charged to my credit card??? When I refused to give the
machine either the invoice or order number, it thanked me for shopping with
them and then hung up on me.
Jim


"Judah" wrote in message
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"Jim Burns" wrote in
:

computer parts... We are working as quickly as possible to answer your
call, thankyou for your patience...
Jim

How, exactly, are they working as quickly as possible to answer your call.
Are they hanging up on everyone else in the Queue?

I usually find.. that hitting lots of zeros on the number pad.. when going
through an automated answering system will get me to some one who can talk..
comprehension is another matter..

it may take two or three times of hitting four to five zeros in a row.. for
the automated ssytem to give up on you and pass you off to a supposed human

BT

"Jim Burns" wrote in message
...
Nah... turns out they were transfering them to the same non effective
automated answering machine that I ended up with. How am I supposed to
know either the order number or the invoice number for something that
somebody else charged to my credit card??? When I refused to give the
machine either the invoice or order number, it thanked me for shopping
with them and then hung up on me.
Jim


"Judah" wrote in message
. ..
"Jim Burns" wrote in
:

computer parts... We are working as quickly as possible to answer your
call, thankyou for your patience...
Jim

How, exactly, are they working as quickly as possible to answer your
call.
Are they hanging up on everyone else in the Queue?

BT wrote:

I usually find.. that hitting lots of zeros on the number pad.. when going
through an automated answering system will get me to some one who can talk..
comprehension is another matter..

http://www.gethuman.com/us/

Happy Flying!
Scott Skylane

MBNA which issued the AOPA credit card, has merged with BoA..
more reason to jack up the interested rates...
pay it off, carry zero balance.. and close those that charge an annual fee.

BT

"Robert M. Gary" wrote in message
ups.com...
I just got the following email from MBNA ....

"You have a new e-Bill from Bank of America Credit Card - Aircraft
Owners and Pilots Ass : "

I think I'll pay off my $25 balance and cut the thing up. Right now,
USAA seems to have the best rebate on gas. I'm getting 5%.

-Robert

Robert M. Gary writes:

I just got the following email from MBNA ....

"You have a new e-Bill from Bank of America Credit Card - Aircraft
Owners and Pilots Ass : "

You're sure it's actually from MBNA, and not a phishing e-mail?

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In the early days of credit cards I used to offer on big purchases
mainly to the merchant that if he splts the 3% credit fee with me I
will pay witha check and we each make 1.5%... In those days they all
jumped at it... This past month I offered that on two purchases
totaling some $8K, and got a shrug and "Uhhh gee, we don't do that"...
So fine, I paid with a card, sent the check to the credit card company
and the merchant lost the opportunity to make an additional 1.5% and I
still have a zero balance card at the end of the month...... Seems the
world is getting curiouser and curiouser...

denny

Mxsmanic wrote:
Robert M. Gary writes:

I just got the following email from MBNA ....

"You have a new e-Bill from Bank of America Credit Card - Aircraft
Owners and Pilots Ass : "

You're sure it's actually from MBNA, and not a phishing e-mail?

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