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The cost of unwanted offers.(Marketing Solutions)
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Bank Marketing
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May 1, 2005
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- Hall, Robert
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2005 Bank Marketing Assn. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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I recently made the mistake of purchasing a business credit card by responding to a direct mail solicitation from one of the top credit card providers. Boy! Was I unprepared for the onslaught of offers that started coming my way from them. I got loan offers, my wife and daughter (who is away at college) received a deluge of credit card offers, and I continued to receive offers for the very business credit card I had purchased from them. Now anyone who has been through an episode of identity theft knows how averse it is to receive copious card offers in your mail box that invite a replay of the crime. I thought nay purchase might buy some protection from future "unsolicited" ...
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ProQuo Launches Web Site to Help Manage Credit Card Offers
Wireless News;
September 18, 2008 ;
453 words
......Launches Web Site to Help Manage Credit Card Offers WIRELESS NEWS-September 21...Launches Web Site to Help Manage Credit Card Offers (C)2008 10Meters - http...consumers better manage their credit card offers. Using the service, consumers...
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 "The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)")
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CHECK THE FINE PRINT ON CREDIT CARD OFFERS.(MoneyWise)(Column)
The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY);
July 15, 2002 ;
620 words
......I have been bombarded with credit card offers. It probably has something...when you said the number of credit card offers you have recently received...be shopping for a new card. Credit card offers with tantalizing low introductory...
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ATTORNEY GENERAL AYOTTE URGES ATTENTION TO CREDIT CARD OFFERS
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;
October 22, 2007 ;
347 words
......Hotline or filed written complaints. A major credit card company is providing former customers of...store with an unsolicited ready-to-activate credit card. The credit card company claims they prefaced the actual...they had acquired the department store's credit card ...
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WHAT, MORE PLASTIC?(increase in number of credit card offers...
Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine;
July 1, 2001 ;
WILCOX, MELYNDA DOVEL;
115 words
......increase in the number of credit card offers being stuffed in your mailbox...every 1,000 people reply-credit card companies still find two-thir...receives more than three credit card offers each month. You'll be getting...firm. One-fourth of all credit ...
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 "Post-Crescent (Appleton, WI)")
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Relief from Credit Card Offers Delivered by Mail Is a Phone Call Away.
Post-Crescent (Appleton, WI);
June 9, 2004 ;
382 words
......being bombarded by unsolicited credit card offers in the mail? One toll-free phone...said it's alright because the credit card issuer probably already has...S. households received fewer card offers per month last year (an average...
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Stemming the Flood of Credit Card Offers.(Ahead)
Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine;
September 1, 2003 ;
92 words
......How can I reduce the flood of credit card offers I get in the mail? Call 888...offering discounts to major credit card issuers, and the upcoming national...receive an average of five credit card offers per month, and half of all college...
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Credit card offers flood student mailboxes
University Wire;
February 27, 2007 ;
Natalie Campbell;
580 words
......good credit. But the credit card companies make it seem...between nine and 15 credit card offers. With phrases bulleted...especially when using a credit card. If any miscellaneous...best way to get out of credit card debt. Having a budget...debt is to call ...
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[ Q: Opting out of credit card offers ... ]
Daily Breeze;
June 26, 2004 ;
223 words
...Q: Opting out of credit card offers Do you have any information on...contact to specifically stop credit card offers? I probably get three or four...solicitations and junk mail but the credit card offers just keep on coming. -- NIKKI...
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Advocacy group warns students about credit card offers
University Wire;
November 16, 2007 ;
Nicole Fineo;
296 words
......About Credit," in an effort to limit aggressive credit card marketing to college students. Ed Mierzwinski...lobbying Congress to pass laws that regulate credit card offers to full-time students. Every campus has its own policy, he said, but in most states card marketing on ...
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MANAGING THOSE ZERO PERCENT CREDIT CARD OFFERS CAN BE A BALANCING ACT
Roanoke Times & World News;
March 5, 2003 ;
BETH MACY THE ROANOKE TIMES;
787 words
......those zero percent credit card offers that arrive in the...to the zero percent credit card, in many cases - is...the stacks of credit card offers. The response rate...with a zero percent credit card. When the introductory...
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Read the fine print | Those credit card offers come with a laundry list of...
Daily Breeze;
February 16, 2003 ;
Scott Barancik;
787 words
......PETERSBURG TIMES Nearly 100 credit card offers tumbled through my...learned. Don't choose a credit card based on the "Dear...with every legitimate credit card offer. It's either...time. Otherwise the credit card lender has the right...transferred from your other ...
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'Virtual Card' Offers Online Security Blanket; Some Fraud-Wary Credit Card...
The Washington Post;
October 1, 2005 ;
Caroline E. Mayer;
787 words
......online. "I hate to give out my real credit card number," said the retired manager...after he discovered a little-known credit card service that allows him to give Internet retailers a substitute credit card number for his account. Offered...
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