Comments on: Apply for Credit Card & Get a Free Bottle of Soda? Hell Yes!?

By: money funk

money funk — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:19:04 +0000

That bottle of soda is probably worth about $3,000 in interest collected during the life of the card. Dang, it better taste like gold! :)

By: Todd

Todd — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:14:14 +0000

I missed free pepsi?! dangit!

By: jim

jim — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:33:42 +0000

Wow, that’s a terrible offer hahha, especially nowadays. Back in the day, on colleges with t-shirts, that was how they marketed. Now, they offer CASH. :)

By: Miss M

Miss M — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 03:00:19 +0000

I don’t remember them giving away bottles of soda, on my college campus it was always t-shirts. It was almost a joke, I think some guys never had to do a load of laundry. They just kept signing up for credit cards and getting free t-shirts, problem solved.

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:25:57 +0000

‘Our wallets can’t repulse offers of that magnitude!’

By: Finance

Finance — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:22:47 +0000

This is very common nowadays, almost all financial institutions are offering free prizes to credit card applications.

By: shtinkykat

shtinkykat — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:50:14 +0000

Love the Admiral Ackbar reference (although he only starred in the cr&ppiest original Star Wars trilogy.) I think the worst trap I fell for was opening a store credit card so I can save 10% on a $5 panty. I think that might be worse than the free soda.

By: Steven

Steven — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 02:05:55 +0000

Back in the early 90′s I saw this a lot on my college campus – they’d put up a card table signing up people for a credit card and giving away bottles of soda. I saw one once giving away king-size snickers bars!