Being an OFW before, you will always end up having a lot of half-used prepaid SIM numbers because your main purpose was to contact your friends in a few weeks before you leave again and come back the following year or maybe a few months.
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| photo courtesy of http://siliconangle.com/blog/2013/07/21/sim-card-vulnerability-puts-one-quarter-of-all-phones-at-risk/ |
Others who knew they will be going home more often, invest on getting a roaming SIM which they ask their loved ones to top up when the credit is about to expire (yep, it only allows 75 days for Globe subscribers... not so sure about share-a-load credits... have to find that out).
Anyways, with any bank transactions, a contact number is required.
Now that we are back here (gulp!) for good we thought it is best to update the bank of our new contact details and at the same time, update any other necessary information that needs to be changed.
Upon coming in, we were greeted by a warm smile in our BDO branch. Immediately, we were offered to sign up a credit card. My mom informed us that there is a promo running right now regarding this and we thought
why not?! (BIG SMILEY for me)After the initial purpose of going to the bank, I inquired about it and rightly so, we were provided with forms to fill in.
We obliged and fill in what we can. The customer representative was very patient and read through all the answers. She smiled and asked
Ma'am, we need to have your landline number so that the request can be processed.
Oh no (BIG FROWN-Y). I told her that we do not have a landline number as we did not think it is really necessary at this day and age. She offered to provide suggestions (like maybe we have relatives who have a landline or the neighbors!). We said there is really none.
She smiled again and said,
Okay Ma'am, let us see na lang po if they process.
So in the end, we do not have our hopes up about the credit card thing-y because they might not even give us a call because it's not a landline number.
Let us see how it goes... I will hold on to our bank's slogan (teehee) :)
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| photo courtesy of BDO |
