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Old Jul 28, 2011, 10:36 am
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drwilliams
 
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: NB, Canada
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Originally Posted by Ichinensei
this is kind of stupid.. the reason why they force you to take the Infinite is so they can charged the merchants more.. or so i read.. i guess if you really really want the Aerogold, just put your household income as $50K or something instead of whatever the minimum to qualify for the Infinite
Agreed, this is just to charge higher rates to merchants. CIBC does not care what your income is, they have no idea what my income is and keep offering to upgrade me to the infinite version.

I only use it as a backup card for work, so do not care to change it so they can get more fees.
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