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Complaint Review: Kay Jewelers - VIRGINIA BEACH Virginia
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Kay Jewelers
701 LYNNHAVEN PARKWAY VIRGINIA BEACH, 23452 Virginia, U.S.A.
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Kay Jewelers Misleading young adults into credit applications! VIRGINIA BEACH Virginia
My 18 year old son just recently spent a holiday in the VA Beach area. While visiting a mall he and his girlfriend stopped in to Kay jewelers. He was lead to believe he was filling out a form for a discount/catalog program. His girlfriend of only 17 was also approached to fill in this form until they found out her age. When he told the salesperson he was only 18 she did an "uhhhh, well I will go ahead and fill this out anyway". Later when asking about employment, he told her he did not work she again made a hesitant noise, yet continued to fill the form out HERSELF and then had him sign it. He tells me that not once was the word "credit" used in her sales pitch. She kept mentioning to him that "eventually you will have to buy her (as in girlfriend) something". Not sure why this woman felt she could make that decision for him.
So now I have a young adult a bit wiser to the tricks and schemes of these types of sales people. The downside when or if he went to apply for actual credit this sort of nonsense will be on his record! I will also never visit a Kay Jeweler's store and I am doubting that my son will either!
Ticked off parent
Somewhere, Kentucky
U.S.A.
So now I have a young adult a bit wiser to the tricks and schemes of these types of sales people. The downside when or if he went to apply for actual credit this sort of nonsense will be on his record! I will also never visit a Kay Jeweler's store and I am doubting that my son will either!
Ticked off parent
Somewhere, Kentucky
U.S.A.
4 Updates & Rebuttals
Cory
San Antonio,Texas,
U.S.A.
Here's A Suggestion II
#2Consumer Comment
Thu, September 04, 2008
Got that beat. When I left zales in '86, we had a gal by the name of brenda. We called her brenda blo***b. Guess what SHE "gave away" with every approved app? She had really high numbers. And that was 22 years ago. She worked for tonito.
Nope81
Nopeville,Virginia,
U.S.A.
Sounds About Right
#3UPDATE EX-employee responds
Thu, September 04, 2008
This company is VERY hard on it's employees to get 'credit apps'. They hound their employees non-stop to bring in the credit applications, to the point where employees feel they have no other option but to resort to trickery to keep the numbers up. This isn't even the tip of the iceberg. I have personally witnessed much worse acts of disshonesty to solicite applications for credit. Imagine working for a district manager who sends female employees out into the mall with their 'credit app outfit' on to hound males in the mall to fill out the application! Sexual harrassment in 2008 hasn't hit the mall scene just yet, but hopefully it will soon!!!
Davinci
Shelbyville,Kentucky,
U.S.A.
Lesson learned...I hope!
#4Author of original report
Mon, April 21, 2008
I totally agree Cory. I explained to him that this woman was trying to get herself a commission of some sort. According to my sons girlfriend the sales clerk was calling the form a "survey". She knew what she was doing in filling the form out herself, of that I am sure.
Cory
San Antonio,Texas,
U.S.A.
Here's A Suggestion
#5Consumer Suggestion
Sat, April 19, 2008
You might want to teach him to read what it is he is signing BEFORE he signs it. That said, there are gonna be a bunch of dishonest people out there who are gonna try and seperate him from his money and you are to be commended for trying to teach him about them. In my old zales days, they required employees to get so many apps per so many hours worked. It didn't matter whether they qualified or not. It was reflected on your evaluation. They actually gave bonuses to employees who signed up the most. My thinking was I'd rather sign up a few good, qualified customers then a dozen that got turned down or had terrible credit, but they could care less about quality, all they were interested in were numbers. That's why the girl signed your son even though he didn't have a job. She was only interested in the numbers.
