{"id":8005,"date":"2007-09-29T18:36:51","date_gmt":"2007-09-29T22:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=8005"},"modified":"2007-09-29T18:36:51","modified_gmt":"2007-09-29T22:36:51","slug":"class-action-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=8005","title":{"rendered":"CLASS ACTION TIME"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2007\/09\/28\/news\/companies\/macys\/index.htm?postversion=2007092816\">3.5 million plaintiffs<\/a> will make a helluva class:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Citi is issuing approximately 3.5 million credit cards to department store customers who did not request them, the banking company confirmed Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Macy&#8217;s selected a portion of its card members who have had inactive accounts for more than two years to receive the new Citi MasterCards, according to Citi spokesman Samuel Wang.<\/p>\n<p>A federal Law dictates that banks can issue credit cards only when customers request them or they replace existing cards. Citi considers the cards replacements to the Macy&#8217;s cards already accepted by the customers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Issuing a MasterCard to someone just because they used a Macy&#8217;s card 2 years before is <i>not<\/i> a replacement in kind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3.5 million plaintiffs will make a helluva class: Citi is issuing approximately 3.5 million credit cards to department store customers who did not request them, the banking company confirmed Friday. Macy&#8217;s selected a portion of its card members who have had inactive accounts for more than two years to receive the new Citi MasterCards, according [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8005"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}