Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site cbosgd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!ihnp4!cbosgd!djb From: djb@cbosgd.UUCP (David J. Bryant) Newsgroups: net.consumers Subject: Re: Sears Credit Cards Message-ID: <1030@cbosgd.UUCP> Date: Wed, 29-Feb-84 10:09:34 EST Article-I.D.: cbosgd.1030 Posted: Wed Feb 29 10:09:34 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 2-Mar-84 06:47:24 EST References: ihuxw.724, <1316@ittvax.UUCP> <4366@amd70.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus Lines: 28 I also had a similar experience with Sears. While an undergraduate, I applied for a Sears card and was turned down for all the obvious reasons. Shortly thereafter, I was shopping with my fiance at J.C.Penney's and decided to give them a try. While my fiance was making her purchases of some ladies undergarments, I picked up a credit card application and started filling it out to kill time. The clerk interrupted to say that she was glad I was applying for a Penney's card, and that she would need to write the store number and department name on my application (for internal accounting purposes, no doubt). She took my application, and in large letters wrote on the top "Department: Ladies Intimate Apparel". We all laughed about the response that might cause in the credit department. In fact, I got my Penney's card less than a week later. I immediately went back to Sears, brandished my Penney's card in their face, and filled out another application, this time listing J.C.Penney's as a credit reference. In two days, Sears called back to say that they were happy to be sending me my own Sears card. * * David Bryant AT&T Bell Laboratories * Columbus, OH 43213 * (614) 860-4516 * . . djb@cbosgd.UUCP cbosgd!djb@Berkeley.ARPA * *