You all know that sticker on your new card that tells you that you need to activate the card from your home number before you can use it? Apparently it’s no more than a marketing opportunity for the issuing bank. Your card can be used without it.
(Via KOMO News – Seattle Washington)
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Tom, this just blows my mind. I just had an experience at the opposite end of the spectrum regarding activating a new credit card, and now I wonder if I even needed to bother with all of it!
I got a new Chase business credit card for our business purchases (because Citibank raised our interest rate to 18.99% for NO reason, ugh). Some of the cards we get let us activate them online, but this one had a toll free number.
Since I'm deaf, I had my husband call the number. I was right there (I could've talked into the phone, just not understood what was said back) and he knows all the usual stuff (last 4 of my social security, mother's maiden name, etc.) They would NOT let him activate the card.
They gave us a TTY number to use, so we hooked up the TTY and did that (which, to me, is stupid because he could just as easily be the one typing the answers and they wouldn't know). It wasn't the right department. They gave us another number to try.
Finally, about 30 minutes after we started, we got that darn card activated. I guess I should have tried just making some purchases straight off the bat and not bothered! :P
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