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- From: aa@iti.org (Aayush Asthana)
- Subject: Re: Discover Card - Pffffft!
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- References: <1993Jan19.153456.5168@spdcc.com> <JDAVIDSO.93Jan22112307@tigger.teknowledge.com>
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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 00:26:48 GMT
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- jdavidso@teknowledge.com (Jim Davidson) writes:
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- >In article <1993Jan19.153456.5168@spdcc.com> rdonahue@spdcc.com (Bob Donahue) writes:
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- >> Smart Rate[SM] - A new program that lets you lower your interest rate!
- >> ---> *IF* you've spent $1,000 in the last year.
- >>
- >> *This* is incentive?
- >> ...
- >> But, Discover has decided that although I've never missed a payment,
- >> and have been a cardholder for 5 years, I don't merit the same incentive
- >> as other might to use their card more. Moreover, they *are* willing to
- >> lower their rates, but only for about 1/5th of their customer base...
- >> ......
- >> Me, I'm cutting up my card and mailing it in.
- >> BBC
-
- >Lemme get this straight: you're complaining because Discover
- >expects you to charge a whopping $1000/*year* on the card?
-
- >Welcome to reality. The credit card business has become very competitive.
- >Small accounts (and anything under $1000/yr is *very* small) don't make
- >enough money for the card company. The fact that you've had the card
- >for 5 years or whatever doesn't make any money for them.
-
- >Also, are you saying that only 1/5 of Discover card holders charge
- >more than $1000/yr? That's hard to believe.
-
- >Let's look at the three ways that card companies make money: (a) annual fees;
- >(b) interest payments; (c) the percentage of every charge that they take from
- >the merchant. Cards that have no annual fees are dependent on the latter two
- >sources. Small account just don't generate much money either way.
-
- >-Jim
-
- Yes, but must us consumers be taken for a ride?
-
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