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From: djb@cbosgd.UUCP (David J. Bryant)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Sears Credit Cards
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Date: Wed, 29-Feb-84 10:09:34 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 29 10:09:34 1984
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus
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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.


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