CSR: Thank you for calling Capital One customer service, how can I assist you?
DB: Yeah, about a week ago, I called to close my Capital One credit card account, and it seems that you guys have added an annual fee onto the final statement, presumably for the upcoming year that I won't actually be a cardholder.
CSR: Well, it does take 7-10 days for a card cancellation to fully take effect, and any charges during that time period would be valid. I show that your annual renewal date is June 13th, so that would be a valid charge then.
DB: When did I call you to cancel the account?
CSR: I show you having called us on June 10th, sir.
DB: And what day did you charge me for another year of service?
CSR: June 13th.
DB: So, assuming for the moment that I don't care how long it takes you internally to process the closure, because I don't, why would I be willing to pay you a charge for a service I'm not going to partake of, and clearly had no desire to partake of?
CSR: I'm sorry, sir, but that's a valid charge.
DB: May I speak to your supervisor?
SUPE: How can I assist you?
DB: I cancelled my card on June 10th. On June 13th, you decided to charge me for an upcoming year of service that would never happen.
SUPE: Oh, you're right. One sec. *clickety-click* OK, I've made that charge go away, the account should zero itself out and close within the next 24 hours.
DB: Any idea why the CSR I spoke with couldn't do that?
SUPE: They wouldn't?
DB: Nope, gave me some nonsense about how it was valid because a cancellation takes a week or whatever to process, yada yada yada.
SUPE: I'll have a chat with them about that.
DB: Thanks much. Cheers!
SUPE: Have a good day, sir.
DB: You too.
*click*
Your site is looking pretty freaky. I'm getting this in the left column (which is causing it to truncate the right column:
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yeah, I fixed that.
Thanks,
D
Wow, a supervisor who actually knew what to do - I'm impressed.
I'm not too surprised at the first-line flunky not being cooperative. Capital One seems to stick out in my head as being one of the two companies (Sears being the other) that wouldn't lower the interest rate on my balance when I went through a debt reduction/management company.