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- From: Eric De Mund <ead@netcom.com>
- Subject: refused store charge card when i declined to provide ssn
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.070747.6986@netcom.com>
- X-Reply-To: Eric De Mund <ead@netcom.com>
- Sender: ead@netcom.com (Eric De Mund)
- Reply-To: Eric De Mund <ead@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom Online Communication Services
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 07:07:47 GMT
- Lines: 29
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- misc.consumers, misc.legal people,
-
- at robinson's of santa barbara, i was offered a store charge card and a
- 10% discount on my purchase. the register clerk made this offer when i
- was about to pay with my mc. all he needed to see were my ca driver's
- license and a major credit card. oh, and halfway through the
- application, my ssn.
-
- i politely refused, and he informed me that the credit bureau/reporting
- agency that he was about to call (*) would unconditionally deny my
- application without an ssn. i decided to purchase the items with my mc
- and skip the 10% discount.
-
- after re-reading the ssn-privacy faq's "lenders and borrowers" section,
- in which it states:
-
- Banks and credit card issuers and various others are required by the
- IRS to report the SSNs of account holders to whom they pay interest
- or when they charge interest and report it to the IRS.
-
- i wondered whether store charge card issuers also fell under this
- rubric. i don't recall being asked for my ssn as part of the application
- for my mervyn's card. is such a practice legal (especially in
- conjunction with a 10% discount)?
-
- eric de mund <ead@netcom.com>
-
- (*) or whomever he was about to call for an immediate answer to the
- question, "should we offer this guy a card?"
-