Originally Posted by
tassojunior
I've been on the phone the past 2 days with Citi trying to change my bronze back to a regular full-featured AA card. Five different people including supervisors have told me that under the new federal laws they may not convert a no-fee card into a fee card.
And Citi has stopped allowing people to open new AA cards if they held a prior AA card. "The jig is up". (Chase and AmEx allow you to open a new one but usually don't let you have the same bonus twice).
Again, IMHO, nope.
1. Don't take purported legal advice from Citi bank low echelon workers (or even high echelon ones
)--Citi's interests are not the same as yours. Very often, claims that the law requires something is just saying: "We don't want to do it." Or: "Go away and leave us alone."
2. As to not being able to get an AA card after having had one before--a myth, plain and simple.
I've had a LOT of AA cards and recently got some more that were good for a couple of hundred thousand miles.
Some even say that it is easier than ever before to get bonus credit card miles because the available bonuses are getting bigger. ^
In any event, thanks for providing your experiences and thoughts.
And remember, as that great consumer advocate, Barry Goldwater, said: "Don't let the .......s grind you down!"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegitimi_non_carborundum