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- From: tzs@carson.u.washington.edu (Tim Smith)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers
- Subject: Re: 6.9% (!) Signet Visa Card
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 01:08:33 GMT
- Organization: University of Washington School of Law, Class of '95
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- I have one of their cards, but I think my rate is higher. If the one
- they are offering you follows the same pattern, it doesn't matter if
- you miss the deadline -- you'll get another pre-approved offer in a
- few weeks. I was on my sixth or seventh before I accepted, for instance.
-
- Also, I had recently moved, and the offer was forwarded to me after it
- expired, so I included a note saying why I was late (they seem to
- disconnect the phone number included with the offer as soon as the
- offer expires).
-
- The reason I got the card was that I have left work to go to law school.
- I'm out of phase on this -- rather than starting with a lot of savings,
- which I'll deplete during the school year, and replenish over the summer,
- I started with almost no money, and so am using credit cards to cover the
- difference between what financial aid thinks I can live on and what I
- really need. I'll pay them all off over the summer, and start the cycle
- again. Thus, I've stopped tossing the various pre-approved offers, because
- I want to have as much credit as possible for unforseen expenses.
-
- Thus, I decided to accept their card. Well, they really did send it to
- me. With a $200 credit limit. That is not a typo. The silly thing has
- a credit limit more than an order of magnitude smaller than any of my
- other cards (I've got four others)!
-
- I'll keep it for a while, using it and paying it off regularly, to see if
- they'll up the limit at a reasonable rate. If not, I'll cancel it -- I'm
- not paying $18/year for $200 of credit!
-
- --Tim Smith
-