{"id":45,"date":"2005-07-21T21:28:14","date_gmt":"2005-07-21T20:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pgregg.com\/wp\/2005\/07\/free-credit-card\/"},"modified":"2013-05-28T23:38:48","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T22:38:48","slug":"free-credit-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.pgregg.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/free-credit-card\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Credit Card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those of you who regularly read this tome (thanks mum!) may be aware that I recently applied for an Alliance &amp; Leicester Premier Plus account with Credit Card.&nbsp; Story is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pgregg.com\/forums\/viewtopic.php?id=37\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">over here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As I noted, when I read the Terms &amp; Conditions (that they send out to you to get a real signature since I applied online) I decided I did not like the Credit Card terms and scrawled a large C-A-N-C-E-L-L-E-D across that particular &quot;agreement&quot; and did not sign it.<\/p>\n<p>So imagine my surprise at what arrived in this morning&#8217;s post:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pgregg.com\/images\/forums\/al_mbna_creditcard.jpg?w=525\" border=\"0\" align=\"top\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>How is it possible for a bank to hand out a credit card in this way?<\/p>\n<p>Apparently I now have 5 days to cancel this &quot;agreement&quot; that I never made.&nbsp; I guess I better at least try to cancel &#8216;by the book&#8217; or watch my credit rating go to hell. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those of you who regularly read this tome (thanks mum!) may be aware that I recently applied for an Alliance &amp; Leicester Premier Plus account with Credit Card.&nbsp; Story is over here. As I noted, when I read the Terms &amp; Conditions (that they send out to you to get a real signature since I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.pgregg.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/free-credit-card\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Free Credit Card&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbQOUu-J","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":535,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}