{"id":1353,"date":"2007-08-21T09:45:31","date_gmt":"2007-08-21T13:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2007\/08\/21\/you-mess-with-the-bulls-and-you-get-the"},"modified":"2007-08-21T09:45:31","modified_gmt":"2007-08-21T13:45:31","slug":"you-mess-with-the-bulls-and-you-get-the-horns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2007\/08\/21\/you-mess-with-the-bulls-and-you-get-the-horns\/","title":{"rendered":"You Mess with the Bulls and You Get the Horns"},"content":{"rendered":"

So Citibank just charged me an annual fee for my credit card. I had this card with them back in the 90’s but canceled it when they began offering their “Thank You” rewards card. When they asked why I canceled the card, I told them it was because the other card offered no annual fee. The representative said that I should have let her know because they’d just permanently waive the annual fee to keep me as a customer.<\/p>\n

Well, I signed back up again…and now the annual fee has reappared. Only this time, it’s gone from $50\/year to $85\/year. And I won’t stand for it, dammit! Credit card companies are raping people with their interest rates and fees (annual fees, fees to use the card in another country).<\/p>\n

I’d hate to cancel the account since I’ve been with Citibank for nearly 18 years – but I’m a cheap bugger and I’d do it to save $85\/year! Besides, Randy has shown me other cards with similar benefts that don’t charge a fee.<\/p>\n

In other news, I know my flight from Virginia was just an hour and a half…and it didn’t cross through any time zones…but I still feel a sense of jetlag this morning. It probably has to do with my flight yesterday being at 6:45AM. Add to that having to be at the airport an hour before my flight, and another 45 minutes for getting ready in the morning and you have one grumpy, sleepy Karl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So Citibank just charged me an annual fee for my credit card. I had this card with them back in the 90’s but canceled it when they began offering their “Thank You” rewards card. When they asked why I canceled the card, I told them it was because the other card offered no annual fee. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}