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Complaint Review: Advanta Credit Card Small Business - Spring House Pennsylvania
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Advanta Credit Card Small Business
Welsh And McKean Roads Spring House, 19477 Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
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Advanta Credit Card Small Business Raised interest to 35.08% after 9 years with them, NEVER LATE WITH PAYMENT! Spring House Pennsylvania
I'm in the same boat as the rest of you. Small business, retail store, have carried the Advanta Card for 9 years. They just increased my spending limit, sent me new cards, and then, low and behold to my surprise when I opened this statement, interest jumped to 35.08%. I did not receive a notification, or if I did it appeared as those checks they send every month, which I shred.
Here's the kicker. I do major buying for my retail store 2 months out of the year, March and August. I will charge anywhere from $20,000 to 30,000, then pay most of it down within 4 months. They increased my rate just after I had attended one of the gift shows and my balance is very high.
I called, got the same response, no they would not lower it, no they do not know why it increased. Then I received an email with all that bs about the market and economy and how now I'm suddenly a high risk. I checked our D&B rating, no change there, checked credit reports (thinking maybe I was a victim of fraud), nothing, credit score is over 800.
I closed the account, will sell off my personal stocks and pay this card off. If anyone is going to be making almost 36% off my company, it's going to be me, with a personal loan to the company.
This has got to be illegal. I figure Advanta is tight for cash, dividends were due, and so they just screwed their own customers to pay their investors.
Kat
Small Town, Maryland
U.S.A.
Here's the kicker. I do major buying for my retail store 2 months out of the year, March and August. I will charge anywhere from $20,000 to 30,000, then pay most of it down within 4 months. They increased my rate just after I had attended one of the gift shows and my balance is very high.
I called, got the same response, no they would not lower it, no they do not know why it increased. Then I received an email with all that bs about the market and economy and how now I'm suddenly a high risk. I checked our D&B rating, no change there, checked credit reports (thinking maybe I was a victim of fraud), nothing, credit score is over 800.
I closed the account, will sell off my personal stocks and pay this card off. If anyone is going to be making almost 36% off my company, it's going to be me, with a personal loan to the company.
This has got to be illegal. I figure Advanta is tight for cash, dividends were due, and so they just screwed their own customers to pay their investors.
Kat
Small Town, Maryland
U.S.A.
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John
Louisville,Kentucky,
U.S.A.
re:
#2Consumer Comment
Wed, September 17, 2008
It's great that you have the resources to escape their usury trap...Yet, most don't and that's why they can get away with it.
