Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site sdcsvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!allyn From: allyn@sdcsvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.consumers Subject: Re: Sears Credit Cards and Freebees !! Message-ID: <589@sdcsvax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 15-Mar-84 23:17:02 EST Article-I.D.: sdcsvax.589 Posted: Thu Mar 15 23:17:02 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 17-Mar-84 03:19:34 EST References: <527@psuvm.UUCP> Organization: U.C. San Diego Lines: 16 > > 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