Comments on: USA, Singapore: On buying brides with credit cards http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/12/usa-singapore-on-buying-brides-with-credit-cards/ A social platform for raising global issues and finding solutions Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:12:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Credit Card Website http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/12/usa-singapore-on-buying-brides-with-credit-cards/comment-page-1/#comment-3186 Credit Card Website Wed, 09 Jun 2010 23:19:25 +0000 http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/?p=1780#comment-3186 Credit is a method of selling goods or services without the buyer having cash in hand. A credit card is only an automatic way of offering credit to a consumer. Today, every credit card carries an identifying number that speeds shopping transactions. Imagine what a credit purchase would be like without it, the sales person would have to record your identity, billing address, and terms of repayment. According to Encyclopedia Britannica, "the use of credit cards originated in the United States during the 1920s, when individual firms, such as oil companies and hotel chains, began issuing them to customers." However, references to credit cards have been made as far back as 1890 in Europe. Early credit cards involved sales directly between the merchant offering the credit and credit card, and that merchant's customer. Around 1938, companies started to accept each other's cards. Today, credit cards allow you to make purchases with countless third parties. <a href="http://cardwebsite.co.uk" rel="nofollow">Credit Card Website</a> Credit is a method of selling goods or services without the buyer having cash in hand. A credit card is only an automatic way of offering credit to a consumer. Today, every credit card carries an identifying number that speeds shopping transactions. Imagine what a credit purchase would be like without it, the sales person would have to record your identity, billing address, and terms of repayment.

According to Encyclopedia Britannica, “the use of credit cards originated in the United States during the 1920s, when individual firms, such as oil companies and hotel chains, began issuing them to customers.” However, references to credit cards have been made as far back as 1890 in Europe. Early credit cards involved sales directly between the merchant offering the credit and credit card, and that merchant’s customer. Around 1938, companies started to accept each other’s cards. Today, credit cards allow you to make purchases with countless third parties.

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]]> By: Theresa http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/12/usa-singapore-on-buying-brides-with-credit-cards/comment-page-1/#comment-2333 Theresa Fri, 26 Mar 2010 03:25:50 +0000 http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/?p=1780#comment-2333 What upsets me about this article is that I'm ON your side, but you do not provide enough information, and as we can see you get comments like "what's wrong with this", this is irresponsible journalism. I found this site easily by typing something into google and it could be a great resource. But no, your last sentence is that you know people enter into these contracts willingly, but you wonder if they could ever truly be happy. OH NO! What a disgrace to an important topic! We should be outraged because people MIGHT NOT BE HAPPY! Goodness gracious. Please stop writing crappy articles and start raising people's consciousness NOW. What upsets me about this article is that I’m ON your side, but you do not provide enough information, and as we can see you get comments like “what’s wrong with this”, this is irresponsible journalism. I found this site easily by typing something into google and it could be a great resource. But no, your last sentence is that you know people enter into these contracts willingly, but you wonder if they could ever truly be happy. OH NO! What a disgrace to an important topic! We should be outraged because people MIGHT NOT BE HAPPY! Goodness gracious. Please stop writing crappy articles and start raising people’s consciousness NOW.

]]> By: Buy Stuffs http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/12/usa-singapore-on-buying-brides-with-credit-cards/comment-page-1/#comment-1307 Buy Stuffs Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:55:26 +0000 http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/?p=1780#comment-1307 That's unfair, to make such judgement. Who are we to say that brides mail order is wrong? Such system helps women in impoverished countries to get better life, at the same time helps more well-off man who find it hard to meet suitable life partner otherwise. That’s unfair, to make such judgement. Who are we to say that brides mail order is wrong? Such system helps women in impoverished countries to get better life, at the same time helps more well-off man who find it hard to meet suitable life partner otherwise.

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