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Mike1951 wrote:If it was, in fact, an error and they do take steps to correct the damage, then a boycott would just be a punitive action 'after the fact'. I fail to see how this rewards a company for fixing their mistake.

Maybe the NRA's role might be to make contact with the right person at Citibank and try to correct the "misunderstanding" if that's what it is. And keep members and the general public posted on the results of course.

Something similar got American Airlines to correct a misguided policy a few months ago.

OK. It looks real. Some good fact finding work done by the TX CHL Forum "crew".

I'm willing to pull my Citibank account, but to be effective they have to know why I would be doing it. I'm thinking some kind of organized effort is needed here. Maybe NRA involvement would help, as in announcing a boycott via a news release and its own NRA News show on Sirius radio and webcast. And maybe the NRA could identify some contact person or office in Citigroup that people could vent upon when they cancelled their Citibank cards.

I'm concerned that if I simply paid off the card and sent them the cut up pieces with a note of some kind, the message would never make it out of the mailroom.

It would be much better if some Citibank fatcat had to cope with millions of dollars of lost credit card receivables that he knew were from angry gun owners.

How do we make that happen?

Of course, in my case, I'd be doing them a favor if I paid them off. A few years ago I took advantage of an offer of 1.99% for transferred balances until paid in full. So I transferred several other accounts to my Citicard, including the loan for my wife's new SUV. (I had a pretty high limit and I took full advantage of it at 1.99%.)

These days, it's about half paid off. So it will cost me money to dump the Citicard, as I can't get anywhere near 1.99% today.

But if a boycott can be organized, I'm willing to jump in with it.

stevie_d_64 wrote:"funds being seized"???

By whom and under what authority could this ever be possible???

For lawful, legal transactions, and CitiBank is seizing peoples money that is transacted at a private business, or by private citizens???

This is the part of it that doesn't pass the smell test.

I also have a dim recollection of this issue surfacing years ago and being resolved.

Something doesn't seem right about this whole thing to me. I hold a Citibank card and I'm holding off on dumping it until I am convinced that this is a real and current issue.