http://cogdogblog.com/2005/05/10/jeffrey-stone/ Alan Levine's space for barking about and playing with technology Fri, 25 May 2012 14:40:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://cogdogblog.com/2005/05/10/jeffrey-stone/comment-page-1/#comment-1297 novak Wed, 11 May 2005 19:22:43 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/2005/05/10/jeffrey-stone-do-you-think-i-am-a-professional-moron/#comment-1297 hey alan, now you made me dig into my paper-recycling bin to look for the letter from the citibank. i hope i'll find it when i get home tonight. the letter made me feel so special that i almost threw up on it. and now i am in the process of changing all my automatic payments to the other bank. so what was in the letter? well, they informed me that they had actually increased my already high limit by, like, 30% or so. that was the problem for itself, since i was actually thinking of decreasing my limits with an idea of getting rid of credit cards in general. but the really annoying part was the language in the letter, bragging about how hard i work, how great the person i am and how i deserved to spend all that money (which citibank will gladly borrow at the 19% annual rate). i think that either there are two many "morons" around that will buy this kind of stuff, or that the world is ready for the new style in business that will stop treating people like morons. so, we better tell them what we think! hey alan,
now you made me dig into my paper-recycling bin to look for the letter from the citibank. i hope i’ll find it when i get home tonight. the letter made me feel so special that i almost threw up on it. and now i am in the process of changing all my automatic payments to the other bank.
so what was in the letter?
well, they informed me that they had actually increased my already high limit by, like, 30% or so. that was the problem for itself, since i was actually thinking of decreasing my limits with an idea of getting rid of credit cards in general. but the really annoying part was the language in the letter, bragging about how hard i work, how great the person i am and how i deserved to spend all that money (which citibank will gladly borrow at the 19% annual rate).
i think that either there are two many “morons” around that will buy this kind of stuff, or that the world is ready for the new style in business that will stop treating people like morons. so, we better tell them what we think!

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