Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site rayssd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!rayssd!hxe From: hxe@rayssd.UUCP Newsgroups: net.consumers Subject: Credit cards without applying Message-ID: <419@rayssd.UUCP> Date: Wed, 7-Mar-84 18:02:23 EST Article-I.D.: rayssd.419 Posted: Wed Mar 7 18:02:23 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 8-Mar-84 19:12:50 EST References: <1031@cbosgd.UUCP> Organization: Raytheon Co., Portsmouth RI Lines: 14 My very first credit card was obtained to help a friend whose little sister worked in a Cherry and Webb (department store). Every employee had a quota of credit card applications that had to be turned in each month, so I filled one out just so she could meet her quota. About a week after I got the card, I got a notice in the mail from another, but much larger and more expensive, department store (Jordan Marsh, for you New Englanders) saying that since I was obviously their kind of person I could sign a little form and have a credit card by return mail. I did, just for the heck of it, and have never used either one. Since this letter came so quickly on the heels of my receipt of the first card, and since I had no other cards, it seems pretty obvious that these stores trade information pretty freely. Heather Emanuel {allegra, decvax!brunix, ccieng5, linus} rayssd!hxe