Jrk1901
Seattle,#2Consumer Comment
Tue, May 20, 2008
I received my statement today and saw that my interest rate doubled. I have been a loyal paying customer with WAMU Mastercard for more than two years and have only once paid late (two days). I called today to see what happened and they told me it was raised due to my "perceived risk" based on my FICO score - which is good by the way. It is exactly the same score I had when they first gave me the card! They told me that I could close my account to get back down to the 9.99% apr I had before. This left me no choice but to take that option. I have always been a good customer to WAMU. I have both my credit and checking through them. I am now going to close my checking account and move on to another company. It is very sad that at a time when the feds are lowering the interest rate to help consumers, this advantage is going towards the banks. If we weren't heading into a recession before, this will surely fuel us in that direction.
Jrk1901
Seattle,#3Consumer Comment
Tue, May 20, 2008
I received my statement today and saw that my interest rate doubled. I have been a loyal paying customer with WAMU Mastercard for more than two years and have only once paid late (two days). I called today to see what happened and they told me it was raised due to my "perceived risk" based on my FICO score - which is good by the way. It is exactly the same score I had when they first gave me the card! They told me that I could close my account to get back down to the 9.99% apr I had before. This left me no choice but to take that option. I have always been a good customer to WAMU. I have both my credit and checking through them. I am now going to close my checking account and move on to another company. It is very sad that at a time when the feds are lowering the interest rate to help consumers, this advantage is going towards the banks. If we weren't heading into a recession before, this will surely fuel us in that direction.
Jrk1901
Seattle,#4Consumer Comment
Tue, May 20, 2008
I received my statement today and saw that my interest rate doubled. I have been a loyal paying customer with WAMU Mastercard for more than two years and have only once paid late (two days). I called today to see what happened and they told me it was raised due to my "perceived risk" based on my FICO score - which is good by the way. It is exactly the same score I had when they first gave me the card! They told me that I could close my account to get back down to the 9.99% apr I had before. This left me no choice but to take that option. I have always been a good customer to WAMU. I have both my credit and checking through them. I am now going to close my checking account and move on to another company. It is very sad that at a time when the feds are lowering the interest rate to help consumers, this advantage is going towards the banks. If we weren't heading into a recession before, this will surely fuel us in that direction.
Jrk1901
Seattle,#5Consumer Comment
Tue, May 20, 2008
I received my statement today and saw that my interest rate doubled. I have been a loyal paying customer with WAMU Mastercard for more than two years and have only once paid late (two days). I called today to see what happened and they told me it was raised due to my "perceived risk" based on my FICO score - which is good by the way. It is exactly the same score I had when they first gave me the card! They told me that I could close my account to get back down to the 9.99% apr I had before. This left me no choice but to take that option. I have always been a good customer to WAMU. I have both my credit and checking through them. I am now going to close my checking account and move on to another company. It is very sad that at a time when the feds are lowering the interest rate to help consumers, this advantage is going towards the banks. If we weren't heading into a recession before, this will surely fuel us in that direction.
Cory
San Antonio,#6Consumer Suggestion
Fri, May 02, 2008
Saw a report the other day where wamu was gonna raise their "fees" by 100% and citigroup was gonna raise their "fees" by 31%. Hey after all the money they're losing on this sub-prime problem, they have to make it up someplace. Where better then a good, paying customer. Cut those friggin' cards up and quit playing their game. CASH ONLY.