I finally got around to activating my new credit card this morning that I had received a few weeks ago.
I put it off as I really do hate these phone calls and I’ve done it quite a few times in the past as I transfer balances around to new cards in order to take advantage of the 0% balance transfer rates.
It is a good security procedure but more and more the card companies are using it as an opportunity to flog their overpriced payment protection policies. So sure enough having sat there on hold for five minutes waiting until they could connect me to an operator I was then told it would take five minutes to activate my card.
Like hell does it!
It takes a fraction of a second to activate the card and then five minutes of sales pitch.
