My 18 year old son just recently spent a holiday in the VA Beach area. While visiting a mall he and his girlfriend stopped in to Kay jewelers. He was lead to believe he was filling out a form for a discount/catalog program. His girlfriend of only 17 was also approached to fill in this form until they found out her age. When he told the salesperson he was only 18 she did an "uhhhh, well I will go ahead and fill this out anyway". Later when asking about employment, he told her he did not work she again made a hesitant noise, yet continued to fill the form out HERSELF and then had him sign it. He tells me that not once was the word "credit" used in her sales pitch. She kept mentioning to him that "eventually you will have to buy her (as in girlfriend) something". Not sure why this woman felt she could make that decision for him.
So now I have a young adult a bit wiser to the tricks and schemes of these types of sales people. The downside when or if he went to apply for actual credit this sort of nonsense will be on his record! I will also never visit a Kay Jeweler's store and I am doubting that my son will either!
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