Getting a Macy's store card

Arranged to meet Donna at Macy's department store on Wednesday morning so she could pick her Mothers' Day present. They had a large sale on. Typical discount offer was 50% off a range of jewellery, another 20% off on the preview day of the sale, and then another 20% off if you bought it on a Macy's store card that you opened that day.

Having found the bracelet she wanted, we then went into farce mode. To be fair, I had left my passport and our completed application form at work. They started with my driver's licence and credit card. Then wanted another photo id. My JITSIC building pass didn't pass whatever test they were applying so that was me out. They had already told me that they wouldn't open a joint account for us anyway.

So then it was Donna's turn. She was better prepared than me. However they couldn't understand that her passport was a passport rather than a visa because it was only issued for 18 months when everyone knows passports are issued for 10 years. (Yeh, we don't understand why work decided to issue an eighteen month passport either.) Having got past that and various other minor dramas, they decided to issue Donna with a store card. Which was interesting in that she is on LWOP for the year so has no income source. Having borrowed a pen and paper from Donna, the sales assistance wrote her card number down for her.

So all was fine to buy the bracelet. Except that the card had no credit on it! Turns out that it did but not quite enough to buy the bracelet. So they gave her some kind of credit extension and let us leave the store with the bracelet.

I wasn't game to go back to try and open an account in my name. Figured the story was probably worth more than the bracelet!

Malcolm