I get at least a dozen credit offers every week. Its pretty annoying, because I go through and open each one and tear it up because I'm paranoid enough about identity theft that I actually think its worth the effort. I guess this is part of the deal when you buy a house, although my real estate agent didn't mention it.
I find it especially annoying when I get offers for products I already have, which happens amazingly frequently. I get bombarded by pounds and pounds of mail for months, and staunchly resist their wares. Finally when I can't take it any more I break down and accept their offering, conceding victory to the evil credit card company, and they don't even acknowledge the defeat. I guess its not worth the bank's time to cross me off their solicitation list when I sign up. "Hello sir, we'd like to offer you (another) Amazon.com Visa card!"
The irony in all this is that if they knew that I quit my job, they probably wouldn't see me as such a valuable customer. Its hard to lend to someone with no verifiable income, although maybe my home equity is more valuable to them than my employment status.
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