I think commercials with smiling actors are really funny when the commercial is for something people shouldn’t smile about. Of course, if you had such rampant credit card debt it’d be great to get it reduced, but you could still have a ton of debt which is still a terrible thing to have. Non-prescription medicine commercials are probably the king of this phenomenon.
Actually this was my girlfriend’s bill. I guess there’s no program over there that says “If amount equals $0.00 do not send paper bill.”
Usually I pay my credit card off way before due, but a while ago for some reason I wasn’t able to see charges on my account. I guess I sort of forgot about it until I received an automated phone call offering to help me pay it off. I was part way through when I hung up because I realized I could just pay it at the ATM if it wasn’t working online. Turns out I couldn’t via ATM either. So I called up, and after dealing with one person and their heavy Indian accent I got a guy who said that my card had been frozen, and that’s why I couldn’t pay or see it online.
He read off the last few charges all of which I knew I made. I think though that if there ever was suspicious activity on my card it’s long past so it’s almost moot that he asked me about the last four charges or so. It may have been because I used my card in Boston or Chicago when I was away during some anime conventions.
This is actually meant two ways. On one hand I can’t stand dealing with financial things because I know very little about how it all works and get a headache trying to think about them. On the other hand Citibank clearly outsources their phone service like all the other mega corporations because the guy who answered for the most part had good English but also was fighting a bit of the Indian accent so I didn’t even understand everything that he was saying. But I’m not one of the dicks out there who will get angry at the phone service person because their English isn’t very good so I just kept on saying no thanks until they ran out of things he was obligated to say and then I hung up. Though the last thing I said was “No thanks that will be all.” To which he replied “Is there anything else I can help you with tonight?”
All mailboxes should have recycle bins next to them like they did in my college dorms.
Yes, it’s scary how quickly I can punch it in. This does not bode well for impulse buying.
I looked pretty hard and never found the fine print.
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