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Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Sears Credit Cards
Message-ID: <382@mh3bs.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 29-Feb-84 09:14:14 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 29 09:14:14 1984
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Organization: Walt Morris @ AT&T Technologies, Summit
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I'll add my experiences to the list of "How to get a credit card (in my
case Sears and Mobil).

When I was at school, I got a letter from Sears "inviting" me to get one
of their cards.  I filled out the application, listing income as $0
(yes ZERO!) and listed the college and bookstore as credit references
(the accounts were in my name, although I got the money to pay them 
elsewhere).  A few weeks later, they called me back to confirm the
data, and after they were done, said I would be getting a card shortly.

Around the same time, I got a similar letter from Mobil Oil.  I did
the same thing, with the same result.

Walt Morris	AT&T Technologies, Summit   {ihnp4,allegra}!eagle!mh3bs!wsm