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How to make customers hate you

So my main credit card, a United Mileage Plus one, issued by Chase, got rejected on my last attempted purchase, just before I got on a plane at Logan headed for Frankfurt, where I am now, between flights.

Now here I sit, paying $.18 per minute to T-Mobile to “roam” on their system, to which I pay ~$30/month already for wi-fi access, trying to use the website to see what’s up with the card.

I type in my login and password, then get

  404: File Not Found. Could not find file

I try again and get,

  Your User ID is Locked
  You’ve exceeded the maximum number of logon attempts allowed. As a result, we’ve disabled your User ID and Password to protect your confidential financial information. Please click “Unlock User ID” to unlock your User ID and create a new Password. (Error Code AA398).

I’m not going to try. I know my old password. I probably won’t remember the new one.

Grrr.

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5 responses to “How to make customers hate you”

  1. Tim Jarrett Avatar
    Tim Jarrett

    Chase is the worst for this–very aggressive about expiring/locking UIDs. And they power dozens of loyalty program cards, so it’s kind of hard to get away from them.

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  2. Bob Boynton Avatar
    Bob Boynton

    If you ask they will undoubtedly tell you that they are protecting you from card theft. My credit card company does the same thing at least half of my uses out of my hometown. But they usually call my home phone as part of the ‘protection.’

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  3. Andrew Leyden Avatar
    Andrew Leyden

    Chase drives me nuts with rejections of charges, especially when I’m traveling overseas. In fact, just Friday I called them on the ‘collect’ number on the back of the card, told them I was going to make a several thousand pound purchase in London, that it was coming in a few hours, would be this amount, from this company, and they said ‘ok, we’ll note that.’

    And then they rejected the charge. I spent 30 minutes on the phone trying to get them to fix things.

    The only reason I’m with Chase is the mileage program for my airline (British Air). I’ll switch immediately if BA moves to another card company.

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  4. Carter Rabasa Avatar
    Carter Rabasa

    I had the same issue with Citibank the other day. Except that they didn’t tell me my UID was locked, my log-ins and attempts to reset my password just cryptically failed over and over and over again.

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  5. Jason Avatar
    Jason

    Sounds like Chase merely trying to protect you from yourself -except you don’t need the protection.

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