Why I hate Chase more than anything on earth
Junkmail. It’s one of the many wonders of the modern age. If there’s one thing I hate more than spam, it’s junk mail. Rewind about a year and a half ago. I had just purchased www.TheBigFootChallenge.com from GoDaddy under the name of “JL productions,” with my home address and mobile phone number. I didn’t feel like spending the extra $8 for WHOIS anonymity because I thought “hey, if somebody needs to contact me, it’s probably important.”
In less than 24 hours, I began getting phone calls about every 2 hours or so from various companies offering me services from hosting to traffic monitoring. You name it, I got a call about it. I quickly called up GoDaddy, explained the situation and was met with a “Yeah, this happens all the time. Sorry about that” from the agent. 15 minutes and $8 later, I was completely anonymous again…to everyone except Chase who had apparently gotten a hold of it rather quickly.
Since then about three times a week I get a credit card offer from Chase that’s addressed to JL Productions. It’s the same exact offer, and they just keep sending it to me. I can only imagine how much it’s cost them just in postage JUST to send it to me. Needless to say, I hate having to shred these things. They come in this envelope that’s nearly impossible to tear open, and just thick enough so you can’t just pop it in the shredder. When you do open it, sometimes they’ll come with a fake credit card, which makes me have to pull it apart from the paper just to shred separately.
I began collecting these things in a big pile for mass shredding about two months ago. Today I was cleaning my apartment, so I thought I’d take the liberty of having a shred fest. What you see below is made up entirely of Chase credit card offers.
