Originally Posted by
SailorJoe
Got the same email today. Sad to be shattered, but it was only a matter of time with One card. I managed to keep my One account alive almost 10 months before today. Always kept my loads small, only ever loaded once per day. Had DD. Never kept a lot of money in there, because all the shut down reports I've read proved it wouldn't help.
Don't know if this had anything to do with it or not, but I also refused to use my One card to buy GC, until last week. I always wondered if the 3% cash back at Walmart would trigger on a GC purchase, but didn't want to give them that reason to shut me down.
Last week I decided I wanted to close my One account for my own reasons. However they awarded me a one time $15 back on any purchase $100 or greater. I thought "since I'm closing my account anyway, I'll try it and see". Bought a GC at Walmart, got the $15 back. I was going to close the account tonight, after work, but they beat me to it.
Now I'm blacklisted from One I'll bet. Should have shut down the account myself when I had the chance.
Do you know for those that have opt to close their account preemptively before they get the ban stick were able to open up the One account later on?
Bad timing on the account closure. Seems oddly strange that the day you were going to close your account they did it for you. Kudos for 10 months on keeping the One card alive.