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How I called the credit card company, talked with two agents, got a refund on my $85 annual fee, and got a spending bonus for the next 18 months.

Call it a case of youthful naivete – in 1994, artist Cain Motter received a convenience check in the mail for $50 – and he spent it believing it was a gift. It wasn’t, of course; it was a standard marketing strategy used by many credit card companies. He learned that lesson when he received a bill in the mail for that amount plus the usual charges a credit card company applies.