Credit Card Guilt

[firstfrost]

A letter arrived from my Amazon.com credit card (well, from the company that furnishes me with it), saying, in essence, "We noticed that you made a large payment recently. We hope you aren't planning to switch to another card! Here, have some cash-advance checks!" Okay, so they're always sending me cash advance checks, which I don't want, and I did complain to Amazon that after the Chase/BankOne merger, I was getting all sorts of spam phone calls from them, so I could see why they might be nervous. But I pay my bill every month, and it's not even like last month was higher than usual (the one where we bought harrock's laptop, that was higher than usual, but that was months ago!). So it seems strange that they want to guilt me this time about paying it.

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[readsalot.livejournal.com]

They don't want you to pay off the balance; it means that they can't charge you interest.

One of my credit cards recently sent me a "you charged a lot of money on this last month. here, have a bigger credit limit!" letter, which was kind of amusing.

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know it's that they want me to pay the interest. :)

I guess they couldn't think of a good way of phrasing that to guilt me, so they went with "Oh no! Don't you like us any more?"