The beginning of the end? First National Bank breaks ties with the NRA following customer outrage...

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About ten years ago, I had an NRA card from this lousy bank in Omaha. It was a lousy bank than and its recent decision to abandon a business relationship after a handful of loudmouth, emotional idiots started screaming and ranting proves it is a lousy bank! A few months after I received the card, I discovered this bank had all sorts of little "schemes" to pad it's bottom line while sticking it to customers. For example, the bank sent out bills the week they were due. My bill frequently didn't arrive until after it was due! So the bank would stick you with a late fee, but the fee didn't appear until the following month, so you had another late fee the following month. They piled late fees on top of late fees! Another issue was that they would simply deny a purchase. You'd be in a restaurant or a retail store and go to pay for something and the card would be denied. When you called about the problem, the explanation was that this looked like a fraudulent purchase so they blocked it. Then more than half of the time they'd still block the card even while you were on the phone explaining to them that it was a legitimate purchase. And then they'd never tell you when they "unblocked" the card -- sometime you'd go to use a week later and it was still blocked! After a few months of this I complained to the bank and complained to the NRA, all without a positive reply, so I just cancelled the card. I say good riddance! If the NRA finds another bank to support a card, I will get one. Until then I plan on stopping by the NRA table at the gun show tomorrow and making a donation.
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I also have been a member for years and never used those discounts/programs either.

ETA: Next time yoy are going to use one of these type services call in and attempt to rent a car etc. and ask for the NRA discount. When they say it is no longer valid say no thanks I will go somewhere else to do business and hang up. Enough calls like this and they might rethink the decision they made has hurt the bottom line. No one makes a stink and they think everyone agree with their decision.
 
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Does anyone really know if the NRA contribution from using the affinity card stops when the card expires or can they stop now and just keep the money for themselves? I'd expect a contract to be in place, thus I expect it to the the former, in which case I will keep using the card and cancel when it renews without the affinity program. If the latter, I will cancel the card immediately!
 
As a former merchant bank customer (what you had to do to rent a card reader, "back in the day") there will be a contract.
But, the card company will find a way to dump off costs on the merchants using the cards, from my experience.

So, as a consumer, you will still be able to get your gun-related stuff; the merchant is the one bearing the burdens. Which is what it is.
 
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