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.
| Purchase APR | 35.99% |
|---|---|
| Annual fee | $35.88 |
| Late payment fee | up to $41 |
| Minimum interest charge | $3 |
Analysis
Comenity Capital Bank's filed agreement for Lexus Pursuits Credit Card Current Credit Card Agreements discloses a 35.99% purchase APR and a $35.88 annual fee. The purchase rate sits at roughly the 97th percentile of the 4,587 agreements indexed here.
On the face of the filing
What follows is drawn entirely from Comenity Capital Bank's CFPB filing for Lexus Pursuits Credit Card Current Credit Card Agreements. The filing runs 15 pages.
On the record here: a purchase rate, an annual fee line and a late payment maximum. It is silent on a cash advance rate, a balance transfer rate and a penalty rate.
Parsing confidence here is medium, so treat the figures as indicative of the filing rather than a substitute for it.
Pricing the purchase rate
The purchase APR of 35.99% places this agreement around the 97th percentile of the set — it is about as high as anything filed here.
Translating the rate into money
The purchase rate turns a $1,000 revolving balance into roughly $433 of annual interest.
On a median-priced agreement from this index (21.99%) the same $1,000 would run about $246 a year, so this card costs in the region of $187 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.
Default pricing
On the fee side, a late payment can cost up to $41, which is around the 89th percentile here.
Fees, and what triggers them
$35.88 a year is the disclosed annual fee, which ranks near the 84th percentile of the fees filed across this corpus.
Expressed in the card's own terms, the $35.88 fee equals about a year's interest on a $100 balance at the disclosed 35.99% purchase rate.
Against the rest of Comenity Capital Bank's filings
100 separate Comenity Capital Bank filings appear in the corpus. Their disclosed purchase rates run from 14.74% to 35.99%, and this one at 35.99% is more expensive than 47 of them.
Among the issuer's other filings that disclose a fee, 53 of 89 come in below this card's $35.88.
What is outside the disclosure
This page cannot tell you anything about cash advances, balance transfer terms, a foreign transaction fee and a grace period, because the filing's disclosure table as read does not contain them.
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.
The document itself
Everything here is a reading of the filed agreement, 15 pages of it, which is linked above and which governs. Terms also change between filings, so the date on the document matters.
In short
The defining fact about this filing is the purchase rate: at 35.99% it is in the expensive band of this corpus, and that cost only materialises for someone who revolves a balance. Against that sits the $35.88 annual fee, which is unavoidable once the account is open. Extraction confidence here is not high, so the conclusions above are provisional on the PDF agreeing with them.
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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