BoA Product Change - WHAT A MESS!

[haulingthescoreup]

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erchambers signed:
Make a link in firefox:
Example Link

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Hi, PJ, hope that you'll forgive a brief threadjack!

erchambers, I gave this a whack before and didn't get anywhere. Would I substitute the URL for the words "example" and " Example Link " above? Do I keep the spaces at the beginning and the end of the " Example Link " section? Is it case-sensitive (you capitalized the E and L.)

Hope you don't mind being grilled --this is my own great white whale in Firefox. thanks

hmmm, noticed that it appears as a link when I quoted it --how weird!

[athensguy]

Would I substitute the URL for the words "example" and " Example Link " above? Do I keep the spaces at the beginning and the end of the " Example Link " section? Is it case-sensitive (you capitalized the E and L.)

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It is from web code, called html (click here). What is included in between < and > is called a tag. So, if you look closely, you will see that there are two tags, one that has "a href="http://www.example.com"", and one that has "/a".

The words "Example Link" can be changed to what you would like the link to say. If you look at where you copied the post, you will see that it says "Example Link". It is not important what you say here, and it is not case senstive. Just preview it to make sure it looks like you want it to. The spacing only matters because it will be spaced like other text. If you put spaces before and after the tags, it will have the same effect.

To change where the link points, you would swap out "http://www.example.com" for a valid web address, leaving all of the rest, including the quotes.

You can generally get a valid web address by copying what is in your browser's location bar.

The reason that it turned into a link when you posted it but not when I did is because I used an html character code to make the less than sign, but when you copied it, it copied it as a regular character.

This web forum allows some basic html. That is why this works. you could have a <blockquote>...</blockquote> set if you want, for blockquoting, and <hr> makes that line across the post.

[Anonymous]

Test

OMG! it worked....sort of. I typed in the url preceeded by the and > and the h ref stuff then typed "Test" and the "Test" became the link itself. How cool.

Message Edited by Sylviatob on 03-23-2008 09:50 AM

[haulingthescoreup]

Thanks! I will go experiment on one of the lesser-visited boards. (Heads-up for FICO Forum Feedback readers! )

I've learned a lot of basic html editing since joining the forums. If I quote an IE post, it's apt to have a couple of yards of white space if I don't clean up dozens of < DIV > < /DIV >'s and whatnot! thanks again

[haulingthescoreup]

Hey, it worked! Got it in my siggy now. Thanks so much!

Sorry, pj, you can have your thread back...

pj, is it possible that the conversion problem is due to the fact that your original card was an affinity card? (Florida Marlins, in your case.) I have a BofA affinity card that is branded with my professional organization (AHIMA), and DH has a BofA AAA card. I'm wondering if either of these will be eligible for a product change in the future. Although they're nice little cards so far.

[Anonymous]

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haulingthescoreup wrote:

Sorry, pj, you can have your thread back...

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     Oh my!  Threadjacking by a MOD.

     pj, let us know what happens with your product change.

[Anonymous]

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@Scout1965 wrote:

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@haulingthescoreup wrote:

Sorry, pj, you can have your thread back...

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Oh my! Threadjacking by a MOD.

pj, let us know what happens with your product change.

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Will do. No worries. Thanks. Hopefully, I'll hear some good news via e-mail customer service. Or perhaps not, I've come to peace with it. If worst comes to worst I'll use this card as "the card to beat" with my other CCCs when I call in for CLIs or APR reductions. I'm hoping it will help me get an APR reduction with Amex and USAA in a few months!! Woot!

[Anonymous]

I got an e-mail back. It said to call to find out more! How ridiculous, lol...online support is worthless, oh well. I guess I'm going to give up, thrown in the towel, and find joy my new CL and great APR...BOA 1, PJ 1

[Anonymous]

So I decided to attempt the product change from my BoA/MBNA Baseball card to the Bank Americard two last times today...after six transfers and several attempts to speak to a supervisor it was a "no go". I sent them a somewhat harsh e-mail that will probably be disregarded...but I fought a good fight, lol!

[haulingthescoreup]

I'm still wondering if it's because your original card is an affinity card. So a regular BofA Visa can switch to MC or AmEx or whatever, but a BofA Marlins or AAA or AHIMA or whatever can't.

For instance, my ludicrous Citi Sears MC won't convert to a straight Citi card. Not quite the same thing, but similar?