So I have a Citi Prestige credit card and had an outstanding balance of $20,000.
I got a refund of $5 so I thought I would only pay $19,995.
Fast forward to a few weeks later and I get hit with an interest charge of a few hundred dollars.
I contacted Citi and turns out that the refund doesn't get counted towards payment but also interest is charged on the full statement balance ($20,000) and doesn't count the repayment I've already made.
Is Citi allowed to do this? They refuse to reverse the interest and I'm not sure if there's anything else I can do.
TL;DR - got charged hundreds of $ of interest by Citi despite having no outstanding balance.
EDIT:
To clarify:
25 Jun - $20,000 spent using Citi PayAll
08 Jul - statement received with closing balance of $20,000 due 21 Jul
11 Jul - $5 refund received from a payment several months ago
20 Jul - $19,995 paid - outstanding balance is now 0
07 Aug - interest charged after 44 days (few hundred dollars)
So how I understand this is the refund didn't count towards me fully repaying off the $20k and so I get charged the full amount of interest (which had been accruing on the $20k) at the end of the 44 days.
Pretty ridiculous and they said they would get a supervisor to call me back. Hopefully I can get it waived but definitely lesson learnt.
Did you pay before or after the closing balance date? Makes sense if after, that's how they make money off giving you credit…