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Killed my first card. Bye Orchard! Would have loved to keep you around!

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Funk-O-Meter
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Killed my first card. Bye Orchard! Would have loved to keep you around!

I waited too long and they slapped my with the annual fee. I called up to see if they could retain me. I told them I have other good cards now. Theirs was $520 CL with no rewards and a fat annual fee and my others cards are rewards cards with CL's in the thousands. All they offered me was to half the annual fee. I said KILL IT WITH FIRE! If they could have made it a worthwhile card to keep I really wanted to.

 

I was actually stupid to not take the half fee deal, pay that and then cancel after a week or so cause now I think I'm stuck with the whole $79 fee. Smiley Sad But you know that card did me a great service and I knew I'd pay a price for it so it's a fair cop. It took me from an empty credit file to a 747 score in 2 years for about $300 in fees. Fair enough I guess.

 

By by Orchard!

 

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Shogun
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Re: Killed my first card. Bye Orchard! Would have loved to keep you around!

RIP...   On to bigger and better.   Congrats!!!

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LS2982
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Re: Killed my first card. Bye Orchard! Would have loved to keep you around!

RIP.

 

Did you give it the proper shredder treatment??




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lithium78
Established Contributor

Re: Killed my first card. Bye Orchard! Would have loved to keep you around!

Congrats!  It's a good feeling to move on to prime cards and leave the rebuilders behind.


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calihlove75
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Re: Killed my first card. Bye Orchard! Would have loved to keep you around!


@Funk-O-Meter wrote:

I waited too long and they slapped my with the annual fee. I called up to see if they could retain me. I told them I have other good cards now. Theirs was $520 CL with no rewards and a fat annual fee and my others cards are rewards cards with CL's in the thousands. All they offered me was to half the annual fee. I said KILL IT WITH FIRE! If they could have made it a worthwhile card to keep I really wanted to.

 

I was actually stupid to not take the half fee deal, pay that and then cancel after a week or so cause now I think I'm stuck with the whole $79 fee. Smiley Sad But you know that card did me a great service and I knew I'd pay a price for it so it's a fair cop. It took me from an empty credit file to a 747 score in 2 years for about $300 in fees. Fair enough I guess.

 

By by Orchard!

 

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Good call. Never look back!!!

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coldnmn
Mega Contributor

Re: Killed my first card. Bye Orchard! Would have loved to keep you around!

If it's less than 30 days I believe they have to refund the annual fee. Over 30 days out of luck.

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Funk-O-Meter
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Re: Killed my first card. Bye Orchard! Would have loved to keep you around!

hows that work Coldnmn?

 

It JUST dropped a couple days ago. I JUST cancelled yesterday. Should I expect it to disappear on it's own or do I have to complain yadda yadda?

 

Anybody else know about this?

 

 

Yea I did give it the proper shredder treatment. Cut it up into tiny pieces and burnt it in the fire in the back yard while we made smores Smiley Happy No kidding.

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Cadillac-XTS
Established Contributor

Re: Killed my first card. Bye Orchard! Would have loved to keep you around!

Congrats

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Rhaeny
Valued Contributor

Re: Killed my first card. Bye Orchard! Would have loved to keep you around!


@LS2982 wrote:

RIP.

 

Did you give it the proper shredder treatment??


ROFLMAO! Smiley Very Happy

 

 


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coldnmn
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Re: Killed my first card. Bye Orchard! Would have loved to keep you around!

I read it on here 2 months after I paid my fee. I closed my account and waited 2 months to be sure I didn't have a balance. If I had known I would have called and closed it within the month. According to what I read had something to do with the new credit card act. I would definitely call them to be sure. I trust the people on this board way more than Orchard. 

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