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| No | 81% | 1187 votes | Total: 1472 votes | |
| Yes | 19% | 285 votes |
No
Created on: November 13, 2009 Last Updated: May 02, 2012
Are credit card companies that greedy that they have to enslave millions of college students already
by Todd Pheifer
Created on: February 21, 2008
You walk through the student union building and there they are: the credit card company with their table
by Carol Gioia
Created on: September 05, 2007 Last Updated: June 11, 2008
The presence of credit card company representatives at college orientations is a disturbing sight. Financial
by Wicked_Kitty
Created on: March 17, 2010 Last Updated: March 18, 2010
To ask if credit card companies should be targeting college students is the equivalent of asking if
by Duane Craig
Created on: September 05, 2007 Last Updated: April 11, 2011
Credit cards and people who don't have jobs are not a good mix. The concept is actually quite absurd.
by Erika Armyn
Created on: January 21, 2009 Last Updated: September 24, 2009
From personal experience, I can assert that in many cases, credit card companies are dragging college
Created on: August 29, 2007 Last Updated: February 26, 2009
Credit card companies and their targeting of college students.
Should credit card companies really be
Created on: August 30, 2008
Giving credit cards to colleges students is one way that colleges and banks have scratched each others
by Kimberly K
Created on: June 24, 2009
Credit card companies that target college students really shouldn't complain when they don't get their
Created on: December 04, 2011
One of the many things Congress attempted to do when it enacted the Card Accountability Responsibility
Created on: March 13, 2010
Credit card companies can be found camped out at colleges and universities all around the United States.
by Monty Cliff
Created on: October 27, 2008
What side you take on this debate depends on what's more important to you; good business or integrity.
Created on: November 19, 2009 Last Updated: November 20, 2009
Credit companies are not without knowledge of what they are doing by targeting the college students.
Created on: March 26, 2009
Credit card companies should not be targeting college students, or indeed anyone, until they are willing
Created on: May 08, 2009 Last Updated: May 10, 2009
Credit Card companies are greedy and don't seem to care who gets into debt with them. College students
Created on: November 23, 2007
She opened the envelop initially with a slight rush of excitement, but when she saw it was the credit
by Elton Gahr
Created on: March 27, 2009
There is a great deal of questionable activities when it comes to credit cards but one of the most problematic
Created on: May 27, 2009
Credit card companies targeting immature, innocent and vulnerable college students is like a liquor
Created on: September 05, 2007 Last Updated: May 05, 2010
One of my first credit cards was a Discover I was offered my freshman year. The balance was $2,000;
Created on: February 17, 2008
The thing about targeting college students is that there's one critical thing to remember: most of these
Yes
Created on: October 09, 2009
When most people hear the mere mention of a credit card company, their mind begins to race with ideas
Created on: September 05, 2007
If making money had nothing to do with running a business, I'd say that credit card companies should
by Mr. Joshua
Created on: February 09, 2010 Last Updated: February 10, 2010
Personally, I don't see anything wrong with credit card companies that should be targeting college students.
by T. Haskett
Created on: February 20, 2008
Yes, credit Card Companies should target college students. There are many reasons for this standpoint.
by B Smith
Created on: December 07, 2008
Coca-Cola has long been my favorite soft drink
Or, as we from the North call it, "pop". I love the taste
Created on: September 05, 2007 Last Updated: November 13, 2011
"Targeting" is an emotional word conjuring images of stalking and premeditated thought. You perceive
by Nicole Nolan
Created on: February 05, 2009
This is a difficult issue. Many students do not know how to manage money, but a credit card can teach
by Juan Leer
Created on: September 05, 2007
Yes, credit card companies should be targeting college students. Why? Simply put, the demand is there,
Created on: October 22, 2007
College students are adults and should be treated as such. They are able to handle being "targeted"
by Keen Johns
Created on: February 16, 2008
The credit card industry is really big business, to be this successful a credit card provider has to
by Gordon Sies
Created on: September 02, 2007
Do you have $208,000 to buy a house? Chances are, you do not. That number is the average cost of a home
Created on: March 13, 2009
Catch them when they are Young!
A lot of companies believe in this philosophy, and why not? It is easy
by James Jester
Created on: July 14, 2009
Should credit card companies target college students? Well personally I would say no, but if I were
Created on: September 02, 2007
Targeting college students for credit cards is no different than a buy here pay here car lot selling
by T. M. Beeker
Created on: September 06, 2007
You can't tell a company who they can pursue as a potential customer. If there is a pool of naive customers
by Alex Kee
Created on: September 30, 2007
Money is not the root of all evil, it is the LOVE of money that is the mother root of all evil!
The fact
by Ms D.Kerins
Created on: September 06, 2007
Yes, Credit Card companies have every right to target students. I recently graduated college having
by Jonte Rhodes
Created on: October 26, 2007
Many people are at the most debt they will ever be in when at college other than having a mortgage,
Created on: September 30, 2007
Credit card companies set out to make money, just as everyone else in the world. They should target
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