Card Offer Roundup
I haven’t updated this site in a while, primarily because I’m in the middle of rethinking its design to work in some new contentful sections. Expect more frequent, and more interesting, updates in the future.
Since I moved to Portland, my mailbox has been flooded with credit card offers galore. Apparently when you only have one credit card and you pay it off on time, they like you. After about the first month of receiving them I stopped throwing them away and started keeping them, thinking that it would be interesting to find out which company was the greatest offender. This evening, back in Ashland, I came upon the cache of offers and sorted them out. Results follow.
- 20 - Captial One (They win the award for creativity in their packaging. There were at most four of any one envelope style and they ranged from standard envelopes to padded manila packages)
- 14 - Chase Bank (12 of these were in identical envelopes)
- 9 - Washington Mutual
- 4 - American Express
- 2 - Citi MasterCard
- 3 - MasterCard
- 2 - Delta SkyMiles AmEx (note: I didn’t have a Delta SkyMiles account)
- 2 - Shell
- 1 - Texaco
- 1 - First Financial Bank
- 1 - US Bank
Total: 59
Hey man, I found your site through some incoming link to zenphoto in my stats and I have to say I love the design. very open and clean. Nice!
I’ve had about 15 offers from WaMu and 10 or so Capital One (they are pretty good at it aren’t they?). I’m doin the one credit card paying off on time thing too, I guess it’s the way to go!
Comment by Tristan — July 6, 2006 @ 11:09 am
i like how you said your entries will be more frequent… and that was back in june.
Comment by Naomi — October 4, 2006 @ 3:57 am