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"Ron Natalie" wrote in message . .. Of course, MBNA seems to have gone down hill, following the fine tendency for any AOPA recommended service to be a good deal for nobody but AOPA. They so screwed up my account and ****ed off both my mechanic and insurance agent...that it was easier for me to just pay off the remainder of the loan than to deal with the arrogant asshole there. I'd be wiling to go out on a limb and offer the opinion that nearly all of the credit companies have become more difficult. Don't put the blame solely on AOPA. As the interest rates the creditors pay to the Fed to borrow money has been very low for quite a few years, the overall interest rates paid by the public has either held fast, or risen. The only notable exception to this seems to be home loans; and the money there seems to be in refinancing fees rather than interest. Possibly this is because the majority of home loans do not run out the term. They are either refinanced by the original borrower, or the home is sold and the loan is paid off early. MBNA and CitiBank both seem to be pretty poor at customer "service" and damn good at assessing late fees and punitive interest rates for someone who's payment is even ONE day past their deadline. I STRONGLY suspect that there is a delay in processing payments just to push more people into the late category. My suspicions are based on USPS delivery receipts and the tracking of delivery dates and times. I was told by one CitiBank customer "service" employee that payments received after 10AM on a given BUSINESS day are credited the NEXT business day. However, interest is calculated on a DAILY basis; so, a FRIDAY noon receipt of a payment is credited on Monday and is therefore THREE days late! Pretty clever, don't you think? MBNA seems to be operating on many of the same principals. I have heard, but been unable to verify that CitiBank and MBNA are actually subsidiaries of the same corporation. My CitiBank account is closed, and the MBNA isn't used much either. My other Mastercard has just been transferred (hijacked?) by Citibank, so I guess I'll have to drop that one into the shreadder too. If things don't change dramatically, I don't know how I'm going to be able to secure financing in a year or so for ANY kind of modest, 30-year old plane. If I have to wait until I can pay cash for a plane, I'll be too old to learn to fly it! (sigh) :-(( Gary Kasten |
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