Re: [MT] Washington Mutual Ads

On 1 Oct 2003 13:06:42 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric da Red)
wrote:

>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>Mr. Tea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Washington Mutual is the Seattle based thrift bank that has risen to
>>national success in the last ten years.  The reasons for this success, in my
>>opinion, are two fold.

>Yes, two fold:  (1) charging high fees (2) for inferior service.

and using creative accounting to rip the users off, $22 at a time

...cheap interest compared to Check Into Cash, tho

check protection to $800 is an equivalent to credit

...don't quite work-out to any advantage, tho

SeaFirst tactics, without the card-eating feature

if you don't eat the card, the user will continue
getting cigarettes and gas, and the cost of ten
dollars of actual credit advance is like $88 or so

...duh.  someone haz an exec. salary for that idea?

but they make mistakes in the pass-the-buck game

...gonna get called on it, too.  soon, even

this iz not an invitation to dump yer stock, tho