{"id":264,"date":"2009-04-18T22:34:27","date_gmt":"2009-04-18T22:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=264"},"modified":"2010-04-06T20:06:01","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T20:06:01","slug":"us-bank-is-number-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=264","title":{"rendered":"US Bank is Number One in Fees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US Bank recently\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/news\/story\/us-bank-issues-30-millionth\/story.aspx?guid={C96E6DBA-57A2-4610-BC09-BFA4BB18ADC6}&amp;dist=msr_3\">announced<\/a> that it is the number one issuer of Visa branded gift cards. An analysis of their\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usbankmyaccount.com\/index.cfm?pageid=g07\">gift card fees<\/a> shows that they are even worse than everyone&#8217;s least favorite gift card, the All-Access gift card. The US Bank Visa gift card starts charging a $2.50 monthly fee ONLY six months after issuance, charges $0.50 for every call (after the first two) to the AUTOMATED balance check number, strictly prohibits resale of US Bank gift cards (huh?), and charges $15 to replace a lost or stolen gift card.<\/p>\n<p>Is it just me, or are gift card companies getting even more brazen with their high fees? Perhaps they feel that because they have escaped regulation thus far, anything goes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Bank recently\u00a0announced that it is the number one issuer of Visa branded gift cards. An analysis of their\u00a0gift card fees shows that they are even worse than everyone&#8217;s least favorite gift card, the All-Access gift card. The US Bank Visa gift card starts charging a $2.50 monthly fee ONLY six months after issuance, charges [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fees-breakage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions\/266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}