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I have an Amex Hilton card that started out with the lowest advertised APR of 15.24%. Last year I received an APR reduction to 12.24% through online chat. A week or two ago, I received a letter stating that the APR was going up to 13.99% since "the APR was lower than that of similar cards." My FICO scores are all in the 780-810 range with only 3 total inquiries in the last 9 months, so the decision was not due to bad credit. Anyone else receive a similar letter?
@370Z wrote:I have an Amex Hilton card that started out with the lowest advertised APR of 15.24%. Last year I received an APR reduction to 12.24% through online chat. A week or two ago, I received a letter stating that the APR was going up to 13.99% since "the APR was lower than that of similar cards." My FICO scores are all in the 780-810 range with only 3 total inquiries in the last 9 months, so the decision was not due to bad credit. Anyone else receive a similar letter?
About two months there were several news articles that said Amex would be doing this with quite a few account holders.
As far as I know, it has nothing to do with you personally and is just something they are doing across the board with many of their cards. It's unfortunate, but it is what it is.
I'm still in a 0% til August on my BCE, and have not recieved any letter about my ongoing APR for after that changing.
My BoA Cash card is at 9,99% APR which is lower they what is published.