Offer Fulfilled! Got cashbacks when I asked for cancellation

[di1in]

I called up Citi to cancel both the IndianOil and Rewards cards that I had. After listing to their reasons for not cancellation, such as points and rewards, they eventually gave Rs. 2000 for each card as cash back if I don't cancel now, and also waived off 2024's renewal fees.

That's a total of Rs. 5,000 saved in a 14-minute call. They promised that the Cash back will be credited in 10 days, and gave tracking numbers for each request.

If anyone's trying this, you can use this link to quickly go through the IVR: https://www.online.citibank.co.in/customerservice/pdf/IVRFlow.pdf

 

[dexter_greycells]

The Citi Retention Team is going to have some terrible days starting today thanks to this post. Similar thing happened with SBI a few months back. Towards the end, people ended up getting their SBI CCs cancelled though their intention was only to threaten to cancel in lieu of rewards (points/cashback) and waiver!

 

[helloworld]

I called up Citi to cancel both the IndianOil and Rewards cards that I had. After listing to their reasons for not cancellation, such as points and rewards, they eventually gave Rs. 2000 for each card as cash back if I don't cancel now, and also waived off 2024's renewal fees.

That's a total of Rs. 5,000 saved in a 14-minute call. They promised that the Cash back will be credited in 10 days, and gave tracking numbers for each request.

If anyone's trying this, you can use this link to quickly go through the IVR: https://www.online.citibank.co.in/customerservice/pdf/IVRFlow.pdf

when is your renewal? is it already billed or yet to be billed?

 

[di1in]

when is your renewal? is it already billed or yet to be billed?

It’s yet to be billed

 

[helloworld]

It’s yet to be billed

for me always say 'calll after fee charged to account'.

 

[di1in]

for me always say 'calll after fee charged to account'.

Maybe it depends on the agent who picks up the phone, or some customer value calculation?