The So-Called Chase Prestige Credit Card Is Not What it Seems to Be

I'm writing this article in hopes that Chase bank will notice it and do something to stop the deception. About a week ago, my wife got a letter in the mail from someone that claimed to be Chase Prestige Credit Card. The letter informed my wife that the credit card that was recently mailed to her was pre-approved to be upgraded to a Chase Prestige card. The letter further stated that only 15% of credit card holders qualify for this distinction. The letter went on and on describing the wonderful features of the card.

But from experience ,I've learned that when something sounds to good to be true, it often times is. And despite the fact that I now mostly write, I spent many years working in an accounting department. So after balancing so many ledger sheets, I have a fairly good idea as to how much things cost. And all the goodies that the so called Chase Prestige Card offered just didn't gel with any sort of ledger sheet I could think of. And then of course, being from New York, you see it all. For instance, I remember riding the bus to work, when I worked the night shift. The same guy would get on the bus every night, and ask everyone if they had change of a $100.00 bill till he got to his stop. And then there was the pretend blind guy who would shake his cup for donantions, buy a Racing Form at the newstand and then hail a cab.

So, of course, I did what any other suspicious New Yorker would do that has internet service. Yes, I Yahooed the words Chase Prestige Credit Card to see if any claims of fraud might come up on the search engine. And sure enough; there it was. I found a site called Twiki Edumacation that had the goods on this company and was willing to spill the beans. This is the link to the Twiki Edumacation site http://edumacation.com/ChasePrestigeCreditCard but please keep in mind that this is a wiki site and anyone that logs in is allowed to change the contents. Of course, I hope that doesn't happen, but the Reunion Group could be tempted to tamper with that wiki page for obvious reasons.

Anyway, I would have loved to cut and paste the entire page the way it currently is, but then I would be violating the copywrite of the wiki page creators. So, a link is the best I can do. And aside from the link, my wife did contact Chase bank to inform them of my internet find. Chase told my wife, that they had nothing to do with the card, and helped her track down how this happened. After several calls to several different departments at Chase, it turned out that the card had some sort of connection to Shoprite supermarket. While Shoprite itself had no connection to the deceptive company, Shoprite had provided third parties information about its customers for marketing purposes.

Shoprite informed us, that for now at least, the best Shoprite could do for us, would be to remove our name from third party marketing lists. And it would seem that the Reunion Group is doing everything legal, as far as covering themselves goes with crossing their legal t's and dotting their legal i's. But to me, this is plain and simple deception, and it's wrong. And of course, I have no idea what Shoprite and Chase may do, or not do about this. But, at least writing this article, is what I'm doing about this.