OT: Credit Card Refunds

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Privet Nika,

 

Long time since we've communicated .. hope you are doing well in your new

digs. :-)

 

Butch,

>

> I'm expecting a nice fat refund. I spent most of these 10 years

> overseas, all the time using my US-issued credit cards. Filed my

> paperwork a couple of months ago, having spent loooong hours putting

> together my bank statements and receipts.

>

 

Good for you .. I found out that I have nothing coming back .. the two

companies I used (USAA & Pentagon Federal) both followed the law from the

git go and were not penalized. Folks can call the issuers of their cards

and get the official line from them .. just use the number on the back of

the card. Odds are that the person answering will be unaware of what you

are talking about but they will look it up on their system and find a

company position on it.

 

 

> BTW, I doubt that the deal only applies to US citizens. Most likely the

> settlement has nothing to do with one's citizenship but with whether or

> not one's credit cards were issued by a US bank. I might, however, be

> totally wrong about that.

>

 

Hope you are right. Visa and M/C and others were penalized but the two

institutions I use (though they are Visa and M/C) choose to not follow the

pack .. so it might get down to how did your particular institution handle

the fees. IF that is the case .. then a U.S. District Court will have no

authority over a bank or credit union in Canada or whatever.

 

 

> Cheers,

> Nika

>

 

Y'all keep smiling. :-) Butch

 

PS: Looking back at a couple of receipts from Ruble withdrawals in Russia

... I found that NO fees were charged by my institutions .. but I paid fees

for Lira withdrawals in Turkey ???

 

 

>

> > Hi y'all,

> >

> > If you have used your Credit Cards outside the U.S.A. during the period

> 1

> > February 1996 to 8 November 2006 .. you are probably due a refund

> > based on a

> > U.S. District Court decision. Apparently the CC companies are not

> > advertising these refunds well enough.

> >

> > I lived in Turkey during that entire 10 + year period so I am now

> > trying to

> > scrape up all of my old receipts.

> >

> > The cut off for applying for a refund is 30 May 2008.

> >

> > I don't know if this applies to other than U.S. citizens because the

> > decision was made by a U.S. District Court.

> >

> > You can check it out here ..

> >

> > http://www.ccfsettlement.com/ <http://www.ccfsettlement.com/>

> >

> > and here ..

> >

> > http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/nothing/ccfsettlement.asp

> > <http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/nothing/ccfsettlement.asp>

> >

> > and here ..

> >

> > http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104 & article=54731

> > <http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104 & article=54731>

> >

> > Y'all keep smiling. :-)

> >

> > Butch .. http://www.AV-AT.com <http://www.av-at.com/> <

> http://www.AV-AT.com <http://www.av-at.com/>>

> >

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