From: "Adrian Boliston" 
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Subject: Re: Capital One credit cards ..
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 18:59:13 -0000

"GSV Three Minds in a Can"  wrote:

> There was a discussion a few months back about their somewhat dodgy
> handling of cash advances (basically they'd made it impossible to ever
> stop paying interest unless you took special steps to get a
> 'settlement figure' and pay it off =between= normal account periods).
>
> Seems they figured out the error of their ways (or the FSA or the
> ombudsman kicked their butt) because they just refunded me all the
> 'finance charges' they'd caught me for.

I got a sub £1 "finance charge" credit from C1 about a month ago, and when I 
queried it I got a rather cryptic answer which I figured had something to do 
with the cash advance fiasco earlier this year.