Dyslexia: It’s You Everywhere Want To Be
Typo In Visa Credit Card Agreement Offers Novel Way To Approve Purchases
If you believe the latest Visa credit card agreement, the credit card company is targeting the seldom addressed niche market of aspiring off-Broadway singers by offering consumers a new way to approve purchases.
Courtesy of Bizzia’s Phil Gerbyshak over at Slacker Manager, comes the following reminder to read your credit card statement carefully:
Phil is currently taking voice lessons in an effort to increase his credit limit.
The ability to “sing” to approve purchases, as opposed to the more traditional method of having to “sign,” means a trip to Wal-Mart will soon sound like the first six weeks of American Idol tryouts.
A spokesperson for Visa notes that the company will be interpreting the new policy narrowly until it has more experience assessing the credit of various applicants who choose the new method of approving purchases. As a result, approvals for shoppers who choose to rap instead of sing are likely to be denied. I’m not saying that’s right, but that’s just the way it is.
In other news, Visa recently closed the accounts of both Bob Dylan and Ashlee Simpson.
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“Once upon a time,
You looked so fine,
Had a credit line,
Didn’t yoooooouuuuuu?”
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Photo credit: Everystockphoto.com
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Kudos go to The Consumerist for the original story uncovering the new Visa approval process.
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I love it! I immediately sent it to my bank manager, so she could laugh along with me. She sent it to her boss and showed all her people. They are singing to the customers. It has to be the first human action of any credit card company.
Thankfully the tape was not running when I was taking lessons for the Broadway production of Visa: It’s Everywhere You Want to Be in 2009.
As a Slacker Manager, I’m surprised more companies don’t sing to their employees. Sure beats trying to teach them to use spell check :)
I’m not sure about that, Phil. Misspellings would actually look like a great option if you ever heard me sing!
Karaoke, anyone? :)