Mortgage rate-match promotions hide exclusions until after you qualify
A mortgage lender's advertised rate-match gift card promotion never disclosed that competing credit-union offers were excluded, so after the borrower supplied a lower competing offer as instructed, the lender simply refused to honor the promotion.
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