http://blog.creditorweb.com/index.php/2007/10/31/student-credit-card-debt-loans-are-bigger-problem/ A survival guide for the plastic jungle. Mon, 20 Dec 2010 03:56:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://blog.creditorweb.com/index.php/2007/10/31/student-credit-card-debt-loans-are-bigger-problem/#comment-190 barry broome Sat, 03 Nov 2007 14:41:03 +0000 http://blog.creditorweb.com/index.php/2007/10/31/student-credit-card-debt-loans-are-bigger-problem/#comment-190 How about both are bad ideas. Marketing towards college students is about getting the students locked into a trend of buying now and paying later. This is the wrong message to be sending to students - I don't care what the dollar amount is. College's should be trying to teach fiscal responsibility and discipline. Instead they want these credit cards so students will buy more products the school profits from (shirts, school sports items, etc..). Wish it wasn't so. How about both are bad ideas. Marketing towards college students is about getting the students locked into a trend of buying now and paying later. This is the wrong message to be sending to students – I don’t care what the dollar amount is. College’s should be trying to teach fiscal responsibility and discipline. Instead they want these credit cards so students will buy more products the school profits from (shirts, school sports items, etc..). Wish it wasn’t so.

]]> http://blog.creditorweb.com/index.php/2007/10/31/student-credit-card-debt-loans-are-bigger-problem/#comment-187 Colin Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:19:50 +0000 http://blog.creditorweb.com/index.php/2007/10/31/student-credit-card-debt-loans-are-bigger-problem/#comment-187 I love the fact that Bank of America's exclusive contract "protects" the students. Wouldn't a choice from all card issuers be more democratic? I love the fact that Bank of America’s exclusive contract “protects” the students. Wouldn’t a choice from all card issuers be more democratic?

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