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From: ags@pucc-i (Seaman)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: American Express credit card
Message-ID: <246@pucc-i>
Date: Wed, 4-Apr-84 10:39:36 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr  4 10:39:36 1984
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>  I used to think that American Express cards were hard to come by.
>  Now I find that they offer them to anyone.   I have a phone that
>  is listed in a name that is not my own and in a name that has no
>  (to my knowledge) credit rating.  The other day, that name received
>  an offer to "Preferred Status" to apply for an American Express
>  credit card.

Preferred Status is not a guarantee that the application will be approved.
It only means that they apply a slightly more liberal set of standards in
evaluating the application.  You still have to qualify.
-- 

Dave Seaman
..!pur-ee!pucc-i:ags

"Against people who give vent to their loquacity 
by extraneous bombastic circumlocution."