[TheForge] Re: TheForge Digest, Vol 58, Issue 19

[Fred Zickrick]

At 04:36 PM 11/24/2008, you wrote:
>Bruce,
>
>I don't think any of the Credit Card  "rewards" actually come as cash
>these days.
>
>The last "rewards" I got, was in the form a free magazine subsciption
>which turned into a night mare.   I had the devil of a time trying to get
>it dis-continued. Just like that TV Commercial of the Energizer Bunny,, My
>"free" subscription continued, and continued..  and kept auto billing my
>credit card.  I spent hours on hold trying to cancel the magazine.
>
>Finally I got the Credit Card Company to put a "contested payment" on it.
>They didn't do that easily,  either.
>
>I won't ever take those kind of free "rewards" again.
>
>Another trick they do.. They'll  give you a dollar amount, and then shift
>it to some kind of gift certificate ... say at say..  a Red Lobster  or
>OutBack Stake House.
>
>Which is really funny, because I live so far in the rural area...   that
>I'd have to drive 90 plus "one way" miles to get to those.
>
>
>Dann

FYI, Discover has been very good at paying their reward.  We've 
generally applied it against our balance. No hassle. We do it online.
They were also very good with their business card when we had one.

Thank you,
Fred Zickrick, fredz72 at cableone.net