@Anonymous wrote:Thank you. I was waiting for a response that didn't read like sour apples.
Sour apples? What happened to grapes? 
@yfan wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:Thank you. I was waiting for a response that didn't read like sour apples.
Sour apples? What happened to grapes?
They ran out of those. 
@Anonymous wrote:
@kdm31091 wrote:Why should they warn people when it is written on the page?
Because it's the right thing to do. Good business practice. Lots of people don't actually read T&C's.
With that logic AMEX should have warned people that they were going to close their OBC for MS. Or Companies should alert the consumer 1 week advance of AA like CLDs.
@Anonymous wrote:
@kdm31091 wrote:I really fail to see how they deserve a low blow for wanting to require you to use their card to get the cashback bonus that they are sponsoring.
It's like people who come into my store who want to use a Kellog's coupon for a General Mills cereal. I just do not understand it. Discover is paying out the cashback bonus. Discover can and should want/force you to use their card in order to recieve it. Otherwise they are giving you a bonus for using a competitor's card, and there is no business reason for them to want to do that, whatsoever. They deserve applause for good business decisions, not low blows because people who exploit the system are pissed because their free ride is ending.
They deserve applause ONLY if they fix the exploit. And disdain for shutting down people.
We don't know if rewards abuse was the reason though. Earlier in the thread the thought was they were shut down for using a personal card for business purposes, which is a great reason to shut down accounts.
@yfan wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:Make no mistake, they have no loyalty to you or any of us. Why kudos something that won't return the favor?
That is your opinion, but this isn't about loyalty. In my view, chronic rewards abusers are among top reasons for rewards getting nerfed - any company making an example out of them gets kudos in my book.
Agreed. OBC or Cash+ anyone?
Sometimes I don't even think it's abuse the rewards.. The company (any cash back website) gets money from promoting the commercial sites and they just distribute a part of it to their customers.. Using discover card or not, they still get their money just via customers using the portal..
And I really think closing people's account without notice is a bad act because it's your right not to give rewards when peoole don't use the card to check out, but this is your own flaw and you are responsible of fixing it.. Or at least a warning ahead of time would be better than just shutting accounts down.. It seems to me that they are desperate.. And have no other ways to prevent this so call abuse and only option is not to do business with some people anymore
And I really think closing people's account without notice is a bad act because it's your right not to give rewards when peoole don't use the card to check out, but this is your own flaw and you are responsible of fixing it.. Or at least a warning ahead of time would be better than just shutting accounts down.. It seems to me that they are desperate.. And have no other ways to prevent this so call abuse and only option is not to do business with some people anymore
As a bartender, who very occasionally has to ban someone from coming back to said bar, for bad behavior, I usually get kudos for doing so. Removing bad actors is usually more likely to get positive rep from the adoring public than not. As someone who takes advantage of those lovely 10 percent back deals, if getting rid of a few people who pimp the system for ean extra 2-5 percent keeps me saving 10 percent, I will write 10 good reviews of discover products for every one bad one I see 