Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.10 $; site uiucuxc Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uiucuxc!hamilton From: hamilton@uiucuxc.CSO.UIUC.EDU Newsgroups: net.consumers Subject: Re: Discover -- A product of the Sears Message-ID: <34200017@uiucuxc> Date: Sun, 9-Feb-86 23:19:00 EST Article-I.D.: uiucuxc.34200017 Posted: Sun Feb 9 23:19:00 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 12-Feb-86 05:59:02 EST References: <343@uwai.UUCP> Lines: 13 Nf-ID: #R:uwai.UUCP:343:uiucuxc:34200017:000:547 Nf-From: uiucuxc.CSO.UIUC.EDU!hamilton Feb 9 22:19:00 1986 re: sears credit policy just to show the other extreme: sears was my first credit card; i got it at age 18, as a college student with zero credit record. my memory is a little fuzzy about it (this was ~1970), but i think i used the credit right away for a $400 purchase (even before i got the plastic). wayne hamilton U of Il and US Army Corps of Engineers CERL UUCP: {ihnp4,pur-ee,convex}!uiucdcs!uiucuxc!hamilton ARPA: hamilton%uiucuxc@a.cs.uiuc.edu USMail: Box 476, Urbana, IL 61801 CSNET: hamilton%uiucuxc@uiuc.csnet Phone: (217)333-8703