Advanta Corp. Plymouth Corporate Center Not depositing payment checks Conshohocken, Pennsylvania

As I mentioned in my earlier rebuttal, I did mail my payment that day on Feb. 15, 2011.

It was delivered to Advanta's address on Feb. 17, 2011-TWO DAYS is all it took to get my payment from me to them.

Anxiously waiting to see how long Advanta will withhold posting this payment this time.....

Advanta Credit Cards
PO Box 5657
Hicksville, NY 11802

Advanta recently changed the address that we send payments to. Ever since this change took place I have noticed that payment posting has become slower and s-l-o-o-o-w-e-er. The new payment processing center is in Hicksville, NY (Hicksville...perfect for the Advanta scam hicks!)

I mailed my usual payment on 01-18-2011. I always mail all credit card payments on the day that I receive the statement or by next day at the latest. It posted on 02-04-2011, THE DAY BEFORE MY DUE DATE! Funny thing, the other two bill payments I sent at the same time were received and credited in a timely manner. Hmmm....

I can only assume that the payments are being stacked aside and posted right before, on, or even after the due date. This allows Advanta to maximize its interest return. It can start collecting many late fees as it did with this OP. The law has been changed to make credit card companies send statements earlier (20 days before the due date) but there is no protection against slow posting. Advanta has figured this out and is now riding this horse hard.

Advanta may be trying to ding people's credit ratings in order to jack up their overall interest rates. Advanta does not give a rat's butt that it may ruin business owners by doing this. Heck, they tried to ruin us all with their crappy interest rate hikes to 30+% for no apparent reason except their GREED. I managed to get an opt-out letter to them before they got me with that one but now I pay them just above the scheduled payment and not much more. Let them wait! There is absolutely nothing to be gained by me by paying them off early.

I scan all credit card statements and checks into a file on my computer just before I mail them so that I always know what date they were mailed. I have a file full of evidence against them with their ever-slower payment posting.

Start mailing your payments on the day you receive the statement.

Mail your payments delivery confirmation requested. (Do not use certified mail as they will claim that no one who is "authorized" was available for a week or longer to sign for the payment. You can actually slow down receipt with certified mail.) With delivery confirmation you will get evidence of the day the payment was mailed and you can get the confirmation of the delivery date online and print it out. It is simple and not near as costly as certified. It is not as costly as the interest rate hike and late fees that Advanta has targeted you to receive, either. Protect yourself.

Once Advanta sees that they are being monitored in this way, you can bet that your payment processing will speed up. I got my statement today and this payment and some future ones will be sent delivery confirmation. Yep, it costs a little bit, but it is a business expense and cheap insurance against Advanta scams. After a few months I will send some payments regular mail. If payment posting immediately slows down again, I will have them! A few months evidence of payment posting delays with proof and a lawsuit can be filed against Advanta.

Just another scam from the world's scammiest bank! Advanta sucks! And I am watching them....