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- From: mara@panix.com (Mara Chibnik)
- Subject: Credit cards (was Re: Posting Styles)
- Message-ID: <C06Kss.LxD@panix.com>
- Organization: (getting there)
- References: <C050q7.KyF@fig.citib.com> <thaaang.725835633@cwis> <1992Dec31.214930.28925@trentu.ca>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 15:10:04 GMT
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- xtkmg@trentu.ca (Kate Gregory) writes:
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- >Here is a method that has in fact worked for the love of my life.
- >In Canada, if you are turned down for a credit card, you have the
- >right to know *exactly* why. Not just "you don't make enough" but
- >"we require people to earn at least xxx and you don't make that"
- >or "we require rent to be less than y% of gross pay and yours is
- >more so you're stretched too thin."
-
- That is not so in the US. You're entitled to the information on
- which the decision was based, but not to the reasoning that went
- into that decision. We still don't have a clue why Marty was turned
- down for a card sponsored by one of his professional organizations.
- The most likely interpretation is that we don't carry enough of a
- balance to be of interest to them. (It's a rare month that we carry
- a aything over.)
-
- ObMotss???
-
- --
-
- Mara Chibnik
- mara@panix.com Life is too important to be taken seriously.
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