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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
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Posted: Wed Mar  7 18:02:23 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 8-Mar-84 19:12:50 EST
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Organization: Raytheon Co., Portsmouth RI
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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