I was completely duped by Synchrony Financial ( www.synchronyfinancial.com ; XXXX : SYF ) which was spun out from GE ( XXXX ). This company claims its roots in helping American 's purchase GE appliances in the Great Depression. What a joke! 

The story is that I purchased some sports equipment ( {$7500.00} ) for my rehabilitation from XXXX XXXX using what I understood to be a 0 % finance credit account for 18 months after which point I would then start to incur finance charges ( if not paid in full ). That 's perfectly acceptable to me, but XXXX things happened, ( 1 ) They charged me for all past interest on the card ( {$2600.00} ), and ( 2 ) the interest charge was a mind boggling 29.99 % APR. Outrageous! The sales person advertising the option at the time, sold it as why not take the credit, its basically free and then you just pay it off. I was shocked that such a thing could actually happen. 

Talking to their customer service of course be me online with call center in XXXX speaking with people that could only manage to recite company script. Given the accuracy and eloquence of the description I 'm quite sure that they have it printed out as part of the call center representative training. I think this really vilifies Synchrony, i.e. as a call center representative going to get numerous calls from angry people when we nail them with the steal their money interest charge, here 's what your read to them. 

I 'm sure they covered themselves in fine print legalese or perhaps it was lost in translation when GE spun out Synchrony, but I never received a call or any formal written notice that I was about to be charged nearly XXXX % of the amount I borrowed. One would think that your about to be charge {$2600.00} warrants at least a call to the home or a written notice. 

I basically assumed since I was then dealing with GE ( at the time ) that I was dealing with a company with 100+ years of integrity and strong reputation. Bad Assumption. It is the modern era, so I set up auto-pay to insure timely payment of my debt and I also set up paperless statements to be a good planet citizen. My bad. 

I 'm disgusted more with myself at being fooled, than with Synchrony who obviously know how to play the game in taking advantage of people. 

I filed this complaint to maybe help others from being fooled by Synchrony. 

They win again, buyer beware.