Free $25 gc to Canadian Tire

[Ricki911]

My sister works at Canadian Tire, and I just asked her, she hasnt heard anything about this, she said you must of signed up for the credit card. I know in the past they have tried this with me especially at Walmart and Zellers. I would never give out my drivers licence number, nor ruin my credit just to get a free $25 gift card (which is what happened to my friend in the past), every time you sign up for credit card, and bank account it lowers your credit rating according to my bank, and how a lot of my friends have horrible credit, and mine is sparkling.

[justme1976]

Hi all,
no they didn't ask for my social insurance number just my address and phone number.
The lady said that they had put the mastercard and points card in one, and if you only wanted to use it as a points card you simply didn't have to call in to activate it. If you activated it, then yes it was a mastercard, otherwise you just used it as a points card.

Hope this helps

You dont need to give your SIN for a credit card application and many places no longer even ask becasue they know many wont give it to them.

It also does not make any sense that they are saying just dont call and activate the card to use it as just a points card sounds fishy, many of those people are paid by how many applications they get and they will get say alot of bs on stuff.

[r0c0upons]

this is the sneaky way they sign you up for a credit card! this happened to my spouse. i was outraged! we were in CT, he was approached by a guy with a clipboard saying he wanted to sign him up to get CT money on a card....then spent the next 10 minutes taking DH's information...i was ticked off as i knew it was probably a shady attempt at signing him up for a credit card for how long it was taking and sure enough a couple weeks later the CREDIT CARD was in the mail. !

and this was a few years ago! so it really kinda ticks me off now to see they're still taking that shady approach!

[CrazyQT]

It's definitely a mastercard credit card that you signed up for. I got hit last weekend at my local CT. The girl was really smooth in her wording. Stating it was a points card and I could earn points shopping anywhere and the card would be mailed to my house blah blah blah. I said "is it a credit card" she replied in a whisper tone, yes.

Also, if it was just a "points" card they would have the cards on hand at the time the application was filled out and you would be on your way with your card that day. No need to mail it to your house.

Nice try! I respectfully declined. I do not want any debt in my life TYVM even if it comes with rewards.

[Binky5]

Geeesh. I think my mom told me they attempted the same thing with her last week. She had to pry the info out of them. They kept asking her if she wanted a points card, when she told them she already had one they said this one was different. They wouldn't accually say it was a CREDIT CARD! Talk about shaddy!
On another note, you don't want to switch to pionts if you don't have to. Here in NS we are the "test Market" for this new points card. We didn't even get the last scratch card. You could get 9x the points if you bought something like a $100 coffee machine, which works out to $9 off of it. It was a bid dissapointment for us here.

[torontogal12]

You mean you didn't want to ruin your credit rating in exchange for $2 cookies you don't like?

What kind of bargain hunter are you

at no frills the other week a man followed me around shaking a box of cookies at me telling me i could get them free for signing up for a credit card. O_o I dont even like storebought cookies. wtf?

[krysta lynne]

You mean you didn't want to ruin your credit rating in exchange for $2 cookies you don't like?

What kind of bargain hunter are you

felt like kicking myself for missing such an awesome freebie. o_O (lmfao)

[FallenPixels]

I complained to HO about the No Frills guy Krista, he grabbed my cart and said he needed to see my valid ID and didn't tell me what it was for

It does sound like they signed you up for a credit card, which even if you don't activate will show on your credit report as available credit. They don't give out $25 for nothing

[Mo_Jo]

sounds good!