Its funny that with credit card companies looking after your money in so many other purchases (bigger ones have whole departments that delight in hunting down dodgy salespeople etc), they can't/won't do something so simple as stop their equivalent of a direct debit. Particularly since its actually a bit of a faff (relatively speaking) to set up a 'proper' direct debit but you can cancel it online without even speaking to someone, yet you can 'accidentally' get these ones on credit cards (eg the original poster's one) and then spend all day on hold trying to speak to someone to cancel it…
Anyone have an explanantion for us mere mortals as to what the difference is and why?
If i was a more cynical person I would say that the credit card companies do too well out of the increased balances and more revenue (particuarly if you don't notice it for a year!) through interest to want to do anything major about it. Ooops, I just did.
