November 18, 2008
Twitter listener @saalon writes:
Credit Anecdote: Applied for and received financing for an Apple laptop with 90 days interest free. A whole $3k approved. Wow!
Which is a quite different story from the one Michael shares, about American Express closing a certain type of business account — not just his, but all of them. He sends photo evidence.
Keep these reports from the economy coming, please. You're living it.
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