Cancelled Credit Card Annual Fee Credit Never Applied Despite Representative Promise
Barclays cancelled a JetBlue card with an explicit agent promise of a 15-day annual fee credit and instruction not to pay the bill, but the credit was never applied. Customers following agent instructions face delinquency risk when promises are not fulfilled. Credit card cancellation promise tracking is an unsolved consumer protection gap.
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