Let me get this right... (so-called 'credit card' rant)

Let me get this right… you sent me a card, with my name on it and everything, pre-approved, ready to go. All I need to do is call your number to activate the card and I’ll get “up to” $6,500 in credit. To buy things from you. And only you.

You have a website that one can buy things from, but won’t tell me what the url is, even when I call you at your 800 number (by the way, where is your office? On a train??) but tell me that once I sign up, I’ll receive that information in my ‘credit package’…

The $199 sign-up fee and the $99 annual fee will be deducted from the credit issued on my card.

So you want me to spend $298 for a card that I can only use to buy things from your catalog, and I’m not allowed to even see what is in that catalog until I’ve already agreed to this. I’m supposed to take your word for it when you say “we wouldn’t be offering you this much credit only to offer you low quality products” ?

Ok… so assuming that I have this straight… I just have one question:

WHAT DO I LOOK LIKE??? A CHUMP???

See that’s the problem, no one trusts anyone anymore.

:wink:

Clearly, the primary product they’re selling is “sign-up fees”. Well, also “annual fees”.

I can send you the catalog. There’s a small fee for that.

Of course you can’t understand the catalogue without the code book. I can send you that for a small fee.

And then…

Redboss

[sub]Getta you tootsie-frootsie icecream![/sub]

And BTW, for another small fee, you can upgrade to the “Premium Deluxe” and we will send you the URL for free!

Why do I never get offers like this?

Just the world has turned to a bad bad place these days ,and money is all powerful and people will do anything to get if off you. Hell bootleggers are even making fake soy sauce .

I get these offers all the time. And I am a leper to creditors. I went into a car dealership one time and they took one look at my credit and laughed my ass right on outta there. And the only people that will offer me a card are THOSE places with their “special catalogs” ect. ect. That should tell ya somethin’ right there…

For only 37 cents extra a day, you can upgrade to the “platinum level membership” and receive free gift wrapping on all orders over $99.99.

I got one of those. When they asked for my checking account number I politely told them to piss off.