From: "Nebulous" 
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Subject: Re: Small Balance Adjustment - GE Capital Card
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 06:22:15 +0100


"Ronald Raygun"  wrote in message
news:9_djc.2597$lt2.19999992@news-text.cableinet.net...
> Nick Read wrote:
>
> > For years I owed 27p on an A&L Visa card which I no longer used. It was
> > set up to be paid by DD but they never bothered to collect it. I assume
> > they thought it would cost more than 27p to process a DD, but that
didn't
> > stop them sending
> >  statements showing it every month for about 36 months, which must have
> >  cost more!
>
> They would have sent you a monthly statement even if the balance
> had been zero.
>

A and L may, but many companies wouldn't. I have several dormant cards that
I don't receive statements for. After a few months they just seem to give
up.

Neb