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Comenity Capital Bank

Petland Credit Card Current Credit Card Agreements

The filed agreement discloses a purchase APR of 35.99%. Below: every term the document states, what it leaves out, and how the cost compares with the rest of the database.

Disclosed rates and fees

Every figure below was read from this issuer's filed agreement. Anything the filing does not state is left out of this table rather than shown as zero.

Terms as disclosed in the filed agreement for Petland Credit Card Current Credit Card Agreements
Purchase APR35.99%
Penalty APR39.99%
Annual fee$35.88
Late payment feeup to $41
Minimum interest charge$3

Analysis

The Petland Credit Card Current Credit Card Agreements filing from Comenity Capital Bank sets out a 35.99% purchase APR, a $35.88 annual fee and a 39.99% penalty rate. That purchase rate ranks near the 97th percentile across this corpus of 4,587 filings.

The disclosed terms

This page covers the agreement Comenity Capital Bank filed for Petland Credit Card Current Credit Card Agreements. The filing runs 21 pages.

The filing is explicit about a purchase rate, a penalty rate, an annual fee line and a late payment maximum. No figure appears for a cash advance rate, a balance transfer rate and a foreign transaction fee.

Pricing the purchase rate

The purchase APR of 35.99% places this agreement around the 97th percentile of the set — it is at the extreme upper end of the corpus.

What a balance actually costs

A $4,000 balance left untouched for twelve months accrues about $1,732 in interest at this purchase rate.

On a median-priced agreement from this index (21.99%) the same $4,000 would run about $983 a year, so this card costs in the region of $748 more annually for the identical balance.

There is also a floor: the filing sets a minimum interest charge of $3, so any cycle that accrues less than that is billed at $3 anyway.

These figures are arithmetic on the disclosed rate, not a quote: they assume the balance is never reduced, ignore any payments, and take no account of fees charged separately.

The no-interest path

The $3 minimum interest charge means the effective cost of carrying a very small balance is far higher than the quoted APR implies.

Penalty pricing and late fees

If the account defaults, the filing permits a rate of 39.99%. Among disclosing agreements here that ranks near the 86th percentile.

A default therefore reprices the debt by 4 points: about $117 a year more on $2,000, for as long as the penalty rate stands.

Late payments are capped at $41 under this filing, about the 89th percentile of late fee maximums in the corpus.

What the card costs before you borrow

Holding the card costs $35.88 a year before any transaction takes place — about the 84th percentile among agreements in this index that state a fee.

One way to size that fee: at the card's own purchase rate of 35.99%, $35.88 is roughly the interest a balance of about $100 would generate in a year. The fee is a fixed cost that behaves like perpetual interest on that much debt.

Against the rest of Comenity Capital Bank's filings

This is one of 100 Comenity Capital Bank agreements collected here. Across that lineup purchase rates span 14.74% to 35.99%; this filing's 35.99% sits above 47 of the comparable ones.

What you cannot learn from the filing

The disclosure parsed here does not state anything about cash advances, balance transfer terms, a foreign transaction fee and a grace period. Those gaps are gaps in what could be read from the filing, and the PDF may well address them in prose the rate table does not capture.

It is worth being explicit about scope: these filings record terms and pricing. They say nothing about rewards programmes, cardholder benefits, promotional offers or who the issuer will approve, and this review does not speculate about any of it.

Where the authority sits

Everything here is a reading of the filed agreement, 21 pages of it, which is linked above and which governs. Terms also change between filings, so the date on the document matters.

In short

35.99% on purchases is the number that dominates this agreement. Paid in full each cycle it never applies; carried, it is among the dearer prices in this index. Against that sits the $35.88 annual fee, which is unavoidable once the account is open.

The source document

This page is a reading of one document: the cardholder agreement Comenity Capital Bank filed with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Where the two disagree, the filing is correct and this page is wrong.

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