@expatCanuck wrote:Anyone know what's behind Citi's effective abandonment of the Visa network?
Absent compelling a bonus, I have no wish or need for a third MC (and I wasn't one of the chosen who received the $50 offer). Just got off the phone w/ Citi to ask that it not send the TYP. The rep said that the mailing was automatic, and that Citi couldn't stop it.
I advised that I would not be activating the TYP, and asked when the Forward would no longer be accepted. The rep advised that if I did not activate the TYP, the Forward would be good 'til its expiry date. I rather doubt that, given that my Forward doesn't expire 'til well over 3 years from now. We'll see. (AAoA be damned - I'll choose the network that I want to use.)
Citi reached a deal with MasterCard in 2015.
"Citigroup Inc. reached a deal to issue most of its global consumer credit and debit cards on MasterCard Inc.’s network." March 4th, 2015 Bloomberg News
They've been slowly phasing out out Visa. Here's an article about when it started changing and people noticed:
https://milecards.com/1588422755/citi-is-converting-aadvantage-visa-cards-to-mastercard/
@longtimelurker wrote:Seems like they are finally killing of the Forward (which was pretty useless since they removed the 5x version) Forced conversion to the Preferred Jan 6
I know that people have had difficultly PCing the forward, maybe some time after the conversion you will have more luck PCing from the Preferred.
Over the years I have had Citi eliminate and replace many cards of mine. Now being a good MyFicoer the death of the Citi Forward Visa Signature Card was not going to hold me back so I went after a P/C to various cards and got denied. Then I got into a MyFicoer mode and pushed hard on the Citi Card Tampa Call Center and went up the latter with an end result of a p/c from the Citi Forward Visa to the Citi Double Cash MC. After getting the card and reading other people's Double Cash's coming in as World and World Elite MasterCards I again contacted Citi where I got an off shore call center and the CSR felt sorry for me (gave her my story) and she looked up my Double Cash Card and said it was a World Card ... looked over my card and informed the CR that it was a regular card ... she went off line for a few minutes and came back on line to inform me they had just converted the card to the Citi Double Cash World Elite MC and would get it to me post haste ... I was all smiles. Now for those of you reading this post holding your breath for the grand finale it was the Citi Executive Office could not get my $1900 CL increased as a CLI but could transfer the soon to be closed Citi Forward Visa CL to the Citi Double Cash and now it it $5K+. In my past actions with Citi and reading many posts on Citi I suspect our various requests fall on the CSR a supervisor/manager and our favorite YMMV. Over time I cannot say Citi dealt with any of my similar requests
with the same outcome or with any predictability (time for the crystal ball). End result be a MyFicoer and don't give up easily
@expatCanuck wrote:
...I advised that I would not be activating the TYP, and asked when the Forward would no longer be accepted. The rep advised that if I did not activate the TYP, the Forward would be good 'til its expiry date. I rather doubt that, given that my Forward doesn't expire 'til well over 3 years from now. We'll see. (AAoA be damned - I'll choose the network that I want to use.)
Follow-up: The rep with whom I just had a chat session advised that the Forward card would no longer work 90 days from receipt of the TYP (assuming that the TYP was not activated). That strikes me as more believable than the stamped expiry date.
That Barclay Ring (no-fee 0% BT for 18 months) can't arrive too soon.
@expatCanuck wrote:
@expatCanuck wrote:
...I advised that I would not be activating the TYP, and asked when the Forward would no longer be accepted. The rep advised that if I did not activate the TYP, the Forward would be good 'til its expiry date. I rather doubt that, given that my Forward doesn't expire 'til well over 3 years from now. We'll see. (AAoA be damned - I'll choose the network that I want to use.)
Follow-up: The rep with whom I just had a chat session advised that the Forward card would no longer work 90 days from receipt of the TYP (assuming that the TYP was not activated). That strikes me as more believable than the stamped expiry date.
That Barclay Ring (no-fee 0% BT for 18 months) can't arrive too soon.
The actual communication I received mentions a set date - April 15th, 2018, after which the Forward card would no longer work. Simply mentioned the date and no information regarding how many days from receipt of new card.
