Target ding.

[prog]

The morning I bought my Wii, I thought I signed up for a Target loyalty card, because the 10 percent off that purchase was sweet enough bait to get me to bite. I just learned that what I signed up for was a credit card, though. And I just got its first bill. Argh. (The Wii purchase made up its starting balance.)

I'm going to slightly blame Target for this one, because at no point did the guy make it clear to me that I was signing up for a credit card. I'm not even sure he said "card". He just smilingly let me make my own sleep-deprived assumptions.

It's still a net win if I kill it right now. Pain in the ass, though.

Edit I'm fairly certain that I went through the motions of paying for the games with my existing credit card, which is why I didn't suspect anything. But I was seriously wacky after getting up so early to go stand in the weekly Wii Line, so who knows.

Comments

[jadelennox]

no, see you can see if you actually seem to have paid with a visa. If you handed him a credit card and got a credit card receipt somehow, and yet were charged for the target card, then there's a problem going on.

[prog.livejournal.com]

Ah. No, everything's on the level, paperwork-wise. I just got bamboozled. And there ain't no law against that.