Christopher, I'm not in a position to buy any of your beautiful birds but I wanted to offer you some hugs. I know this must have been and extremely difficult decision for you. I hope things improve for you soon.
We're planning on doing it next spring. My son and I have been reading Little House on The Prairie where they're making maple sugar and syrup and he's dying to try it.
Makes me want to only pay with cash. Scary scary stuff. For the average person a few hundred dollars makes the differance in paying the bills and being on the street. These low lifes don't care for a second though.
Here's the link on credit freezing:
http://clarkhoward.com/topics/credit_freeze_states.html
I agree call the company yourself via the number on the back of the card. They may not have asked for information on this call but may on the next.
There's a way to freeze your credit so that no one can apply for any more cards in your name. Clark Howard talks about it all the time. Let me see if I can find the link on his website.
Of course I'm special. But I wasn't the only one who did more than one swap. I believe there were three folks doing multiple swaps this month.
I actually ended up doing two due to someone dropping out though.