Thread: First Savings Mastercard - SCAM!

I opened the mail tonight and saw a nice invitation, turned it over and saw a SD address.
I thought - hmm - maybe a prime offer.....

The First Savings mastercard was an 18.9% rate with grace period. Sounded OK.
$2500 limit - well - OK.
return by July 5 - OK.

Turned it over and read the great terms:
do these fees sound familiar from any other card we've discussed?

Ann fee $35
acceptance fee $119
monthly participation fee $6 ($72 annually?)
setup fee $79
express delivery - optional - $49

THEN I started to read the small print!
Limit from $250 to $2500.
Premium Club - brochure included - in relatively nice print - proudly says for another $49 you are in a special program that would be available for credit limit increases.

Then it says they will charge $25 for the first time they look at raising your limit - BUT - this will only
apply as long as you stay in the SCREAMium Club.

Premium Club members get emergency 48 HR
card replacement!

I then saw it was part of First Premier ;)
WHEN will I get these dog card preapprovals OVER and onto prime?

First Savings Mastercard - nope - they did not have a picture of this wonderful card. Again, the interesting thing about this crappy offer is that it was all printed on nice stationary and looked like AMEX or platinum card invitation type quality!

I decided not to get the card.

buyers beware - dogman

Hey Dog, I can't beleive you didn't accept that offer. LOL. Actually, I got one of those offers about 2 months ago. I didn't see First Premier mentioned, but after I turned it over and saw the fees, I quit reading it.

I received one of these offers today!

Mine was:
$29 processing fee ($6 opt express processing)
$50 annual membership fee
$72 annual participation fee ($6/month)
$119 acceptance fee
$25 credit limit review fee (first time only)

I didn't notice any reference to Premier, but I did notice a $5 fee for Automatic payments. I like autopayments, so that would suck.

I feel so privileged. Currently, I have a Providian $880 (I know, I know.. but it's enough to cover rental car expenses when I travel, so I keep it), Orchard $300 (due any day now for an increase?), Sears (doesn't everyone?), and a new Speigel (don't remember what the limit is, it's small).

-zelda

I want that card!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Give me a credit limit of $269.00 so I can be over-limit by $1.00 and you can charge me an over-limit fee BEFORE I GET THE CARD!!!!!!!!!

Originally posted by zelda


$25 credit limit review fee

Wow, these guys never run out of ideas :)


Saar

Cross Country must be giving seminars on how to get every cent out of folks desperate for a credit card.
Just automatically include the monthly overlimit and late fee on each statement, please.
Get out the tongs and deposit this application in the circular file, quickly!!

How about a fee every time you use the card? That would be nice too. If they'd add that then I'm in!

It might be nice but they would have to add a $50.oo payment acceptance fee before I'd be remotely interested! Ha Ha


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Originally posted by Marie
How about a fee every time you use the card? That would be nice too. If they'd add that then I'm in!

They also need to have a 45 DAY PAYMENT HOLD...just incase your check bounces and the bank has a machine that breaks for one week and the weather at the airport shuts it down and the baggage handlers are on strike the the mail truck has a flat tire, and the truck runs out of gas and somebody decides that the gas in NEW YORK works better, so somebody drives four days round trip with the gas can to get gas in NEW YORK and when they get back the mail driver went on vacation so you have to wait till he gets back.............


:)

Today I was threatened by Eileen, a customer service supervisor of FIRST SAVINGS CREDIT CARD 888-469-0291 because I complained about a ten day hold being placed on a $500 payment I made on my account. She said that it was in the contract that they can take money out of my bank account and then not credit it to my FIRST SAVINGS CREDIT CARD. When I complained that this was fraudulent as the money was taken by EFT from my bank account, she said that was too bad. I said this wasn't right and I was going to complain to the parent company (FIRST SAVINGS BANK 201 N. Third
Box 431 Beresford, SD 57004 Ph: 605.763.2009) . Eileen then laughed and said she could arrange to have me hurt even though I lived out of state as they have "contractors" working all over the country. She further stated that she had control of my credit card and could charge against the account anything she wanted and if I didn't pay she would "ruin me".

Now I have been a customer of FIRST SAVINGS CREDIT CARD for over five years. In that time I have had minor problems with erroneous over limit charges, but today's criminal activities on behalf of an employee of FIRST SAVINGS CREDIT CARD and FIRST SAVINGS BANK were way worse than anything I have encountered with any creditor. I have filed complaints directly with the South Dakota Attorney General's office, the FBI, the FTC and my local law enforcement agencies. I am also filing this report to publicize their threats in case some serious bodily harm is inflicted on me by "contractors" of FIRST SAVINGS CREDIT CARD FIRST SAVINGS BANK.

Before filing this report, I checked on the internet and found many complaints of this type of activity by employees of FIRST SAVINGS CREDIT CARD and FIRST SAVINGS BANK.

STAY AWAY FROM THIS BUNCH OF CROOKS AND CRIMINALS OR RISK LOSING YOUR CREDIT AND MAYBE YOUR LIFE.