[net.consumers] Sears Credit Cards and Freebees !!

psuvm%iks@psuvax.UUCP (03/12/84)

In reference to Amb2c.231 !! I was glad someone sauteed the card and
sent it back to them !

I had once (long ago) applied very seriously for a Sears card. I have
had very respectable credit lines on my MC and Visa cards but Sears
didn't think that was good enough for them. Too bad for them I thought !
I now go to Sears only to fill out more application forms in which I
don't mention my income nor my credit references and since they are
always having a promotion I always collect. So far I have got:
         1) numerous Pen watches,
         2) few sets of steak knives,
         3) umbrellas,
         4) a picnic jug and tumbler set,
         5) free meals at McDonalds,
         6) imitation jewelry.

I think their not giving me a credit card is really paying off !!

                                           --Indra K. Singhal
      Bitnet: IKS at PSUVM
      uucp  : :allegra, akgua, ihnp4:!psuvax!IKS@PSUVM.BITNET

allyn@sdcsvax.UUCP (03/16/84)

>
> I now go to Sears only to fill out more application forms in which I
> don't mention my income nor my credit references and since they are
> always having a promotion I always collect. So far I have got: ...
>
>                                            --Indra K. Singhal

The problem with this idea is that each time Sears runs a credit check
on you, it goes into your credit file.  Serious prospective credit-givers
may wonder why you have 25 credit checks by Sears and no Sears account and
decide to refuse you credit.

-- 
 From the virtual mind of Allyn Fratkin
                          UCSD Pascal Project
                          U.C. San Diego