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Will they get upset? Who cares!
Do they care if you get upset if they raise your APR out of the blue? I don't think so.
Do they care if they upset you if they slap you with a late fee for being one minute late? I don't think so.
Live your life and do what is best for you and don't worry about the banks.
This thread is INSANE. Your "relationship" with a bank is not a real relationship. They're not girlfriends breaking up with you. It's business! Either of you can leave whenever the business relationship isn't working well for either of you. What you're doing isn't abuse, and what they're doing if they cancel you isn't personal. So unless you have other needs for the card and don't want to tick them off, take them for the most they're worth (probably no more than, for example, one of the excellent Chase offers per year or so to stretch the value chain out) and when they leave you, say "thanks for all the money, bye"
There are other sites I won't name on here where you'll find a lot more people who aren't in a romantic relationship with their banks and have a far more realistic concept of extracting the maximum value
I am withe the folks that say Who cares. If the bank actually has feelings and care, They will eventually get over it.. There is a whole subset of credit card applicants that the sign up bonuses is all they go for. My wife and i both got in two years ago on an american express gold card sign up bonus that we ulitmately wound up with 90k bonus points and 2 year no AF .. That ends next month and we cancelled the cards last month. I also applied and got citi hilton and an american express hilton in feb because they both were offering 50k hilton points with a min spend. Spent what i needed to get the points and enjoyed that free hotel for a week in march while on vacation. Have not used the cards since.
@nyancat wrote:This thread is INSANE. Your "relationship" with a bank is not a real relationship. They're not girlfriends breaking up with you. It's business! Either of you can leave whenever the business relationship isn't working well for either of you. What you're doing isn't abuse, and what they're doing if they cancel you isn't personal. So unless you have other needs for the card and don't want to tick them off, take them for the most they're worth (probably no more than, for example, one of the excellent Chase offers per year or so to stretch the value chain out) and when they leave you, say "thanks for all the money, bye"
There are other sites I won't name on here where you'll find a lot more people who aren't in a romantic relationship with their banks and have a far more realistic concept of extracting the maximum value
King Solomon couldn't have said it better.
Banks, credit unions, CCCs...ALL use you to make money. I see nothing wrong with a reciprocal financial "relationship" where both parties benefit. After all, there is no law saying that only the CCCs themselves are permitted to gain financially. If they toss a hissy fit, ADIOS. There will be dozens waiting to take the lost business.
@SnackTrader wrote:
If it helps, I plan on doing the same thing with the Arrival World MasterCard. And with that card, the no AF version is basically useless when compared to many other cards out there, so who cares if they get mad and throw you out?
But I doubt it would happen. They offer both cards, you tried one and now you think you prefer the other. If they didn't want you to have a no AF card, they wouldn't offer it. Believe me, banks make money one way or another, the AF has very little bearing on that.
It still looks halfway decent. You still get 2% travel and dining, and 10% off when redeemed for travel. And that free subscription to Tripit Pro, whatever that's worth haha.
@CreditCrusader wrote:
@nyancat wrote:This thread is INSANE. Your "relationship" with a bank is not a real relationship. They're not girlfriends breaking up with you. It's business! Either of you can leave whenever the business relationship isn't working well for either of you. What you're doing isn't abuse, and what they're doing if they cancel you isn't personal. So unless you have other needs for the card and don't want to tick them off, take them for the most they're worth (probably no more than, for example, one of the excellent Chase offers per year or so to stretch the value chain out) and when they leave you, say "thanks for all the money, bye"
There are other sites I won't name on here where you'll find a lot more people who aren't in a romantic relationship with their banks and have a far more realistic concept of extracting the maximum value
King Solomon couldn't have said it better.
Banks, credit unions, CCCs...ALL use you to make money. I see nothing wrong with a reciprocal financial "relationship" where both parties benefit. After all, there is no law saying that only the CCCs themselves are permitted to gain financially. If they toss a hissy fit, ADIOS. There will be dozens waiting to take the lost business.
Thanks for the perspective on this guys. And for making it comical. I read this and had to laugh. How true!
Yep, the "Who Cares" attitude is generally right.
They are a few cases where you may care. One case relevant to a lot of people is Citi. If you want a lot of American Airline miles via credit cards, over and over again through churning, Citi is the place to go. So if this is important to you, you might not want to annoy them in other ways (see TYP 5x shutdown stories).
But in most cases, even if an issuer blacklists you, there are lots of good alternatives. As said earlier, this, even with Amex (dig dig!) isn't a deep relationship, you each maximize your advantage in the best way you can.
I'll be the lone dissenter here and say be wary of these peoples' advice regarding "who cares".
I don't think that lenders will blacklist you for cancelling an AF card after 11 months, or if you PC to a non-AF version. However many banks will have a relationship score, in which the depth of your relationship with them is measured. Included can be how much you have in accounts with them, loans, credit cards and overall profitability. If your score tanks too much, you may not catch as many breaks in the future as someone with a higher score has. This doesn't have to alter your action on this particular instance, but be aware that they track literally everything and have extremely long memories. Doing things they see as unfavourable may have consequences down the road.
There aren't that many big lenders in the rewards area (perhaps 4-5), so writing them off unecessarily is a bigger deal than others make it out to be. If you get a job which requires you to stay in hotels often and your company chooses Marriott, you might be hurting if Chase has closed its doors to you.
Yes banks are out to make money, and they don't care much about you beyond that. This much is true. However just think twice before doing something that might end up burning a bridge. There aren't that many bridges in the financial world, and there will be even less over time as mergers, consolidations, acquisitions and takeovers continue to reduce the playing field. Losing access to even one lender may reduce the amount of cards you have access to by up to 1/3 now and also in the future.