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Get A Citi Rewards Card, Buy Women
When spending rewards dollars on things like knife sets, LCD TVs and restaurant reservations is just a little too 2011, here comes Citi to spice things up a bit.
Consumerist tries to make some sense of Citi rewards' incentives... and fails:
Is there no limit to what banking rewards programs will cover these days? Flights, hotel rooms, rental cars, electronics, women. Wait -- what?
Consumerist reader F. is a member of Citi's Extra Cash rewards program and saw they could earn 100 points just for taking this survey. But when F. got to this question about "What products or services are you considering purchasing using your Extra Cash?", they noticed that apparently Extra Cash can be spent on adult human females.
We're sending this to Citi, because we're pretty sure this isn't what the survey was meant to say.
Maybe this is a special Citi card only designed exclusively for bankers, in which case it would make perfect sense of course. We would imagine however that only taxpayer bailout cash would be used for female purchases. Anything less would just be uncivilized.
And here we were thinking that HFT trading was cutthroat: it seems that when it comes to differentiating yourself in the saturated credit card rewards industry it is a truly no holds barred nuclear war. And no woman will be spared... Or overpriced.
Finally, we hear "Politicians" was just below the fold.
h/t Josh Zumbrun
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Word.
Spitzer is getting the banks to fall into line.
Of course, when the time comes, the metal we're hoarding has to become useful in some way...
Overheard at Citibank today:
Customer: "Hi. I noticed that my payments on my two mortgages in [State A] and [State B] were applied only to the interest."
Citibank Rep: "Yes. I see that."
Customer: "Why weren't they applied to the principal?"
CR: "Your payments are for the first 10 years interest only."
Customer: "Really? Are you serious? I had no idea. Are you kidding? I would never have gotten into a deal like that."
Customer calls her husband. "I'm at the bank. They say our payments are going to interest-only for the first 10 years. Did you know that?"
Meanwhile, the customer service rep in their glass cubicle, has a heated discussion with someone who is condemning her decision to buy last-minute, and expensive, tickets to some event in midtown, while her customer is trying to wrap her head around her state of misfortune.
DO NOT EXPECT CUSTOMER SERVICE REPS TO BE ANYTHING MORE THAN SOCK PUPPETS THESE DAYS. THEY ARE DISEMPOWERED NEGOTIATORS, AND DISHONEST BROKERS AT WORST. THEY CANNOT DO NEITHER JACK NOR SHIT FOR YOU. EVERYTHING IS DECIDED WAY ABOVE THEIR HEAD.
Why shouldn't the little guys get some of the "rewards" that politicians and banksters get? Oh... I guess the box would have read "Underage male prostitutes" instead of "women" if that was the case.