Discover Credit Card Complaint

Discover Credit card department,

Payoff process Washington

I have been systematically overcharged interest by Discover Card for the past two years and I would like the overcharged amounts refunded. I had a series of 0 % balance transfers that processed last year, and I have been consistently making payments of $100.00 each month. However my payments, instead of being applied to earlier purchases, were being applied to the later balance transfers, so my purchase balances were n't being reduced even though I was making payments well over the minimum. Then, as each promotional period expired, my monthly payments were suddenly being applied to the later balance transfers ( with unexpired 0 % promotional periods ), rather than the earlier ones, which were now accruing interest. It has always been my understanding that with credit cards in general, and under the account I hold with Discover card, payments are to be applied to earlier transactions before later ones, to higher-APR balances before lower ones, and to purchases before balance transfers. According to their own interactive guide


applied to 0 % balances instead of higher-rate balances, to later transactions ( with 0 % interest ) rather than earlier ones, and to balance transfers before interest-earning purchase balances. This appears to be contrary to the cardmember agreement, as well as fraudulent or at best dishonest. One way that they did this as you can see from the statements is that whenever a promotional period expired, the remaining promotional balance was added to the account as a new transaction, even though it was n't a new transaction. But even apart from that, my payments - which were always over and above the minimum and never late or in default - were consistently and entirely applied towards reducing only 0 % promotional balances, and not to EARLIER purchase transactions, and EARLIER balance transfers ( which were accruing interest. I have been charged a total of $220.00 interest in -/-/- and -/-/-. I believe most of this was wrongly charged.