Something for nothing

[Mom]

I got a surprise in my letter box a couple of weeks ago. A magazine, plastic wrapped, Compliments of my optometrist. Have to admit to it still being wrapped, somehow I have not found time to look at "NZ Life & Leisure" albeit a large and glossy looking thing.

I remember thinking it strange to receive it, but hey, gift horse and all that. Well you can only but imagine my delight today to receive a letter from www.mags4gifts.co.nz on behalf of NZ Life & Leisure thanking me for my loyal custom and reminding me that my subscription is about to lapse!

Cool beans, my name and address are now on some friggen obnoxious marketting companies database, without my permission I might add. No, I have not signed a waiver that allowed my optometrist to pass on my details to any random marketing company.

Me thinks I may have to make a call in the morning, to let someone know how I feel about them passing my details on without my express permission. I dont know about you guys, but I really detest this sort of shit. Far canal, I tell SKY to BUZZ OFF with more frequency than I like, this no doubt will lead to more invasive attention to my hearth and home. I wont fill out forms at trade shows, refuse junk mail etc to avoid being harrassed, and here is some unsolicited thing in my face as a reslut of visiting an optometrist. Thoughts?

[slofox]

Poke 'em in the eye Mom...

[Mom]

Poke 'em in the eye Mom...

I am more of an ankle biting height really

But fuckem, what is with that?

[Mully]

and your chicks for free?

[munster]

I hate it too. I used to regularly get sent a pre-approved American Express card. Fucked if I know where they got my details from, or that I was a good enough risk to send me a pre-approved card. Anyway, I kept politely returning the card with a 'no thanks'. They kept sending the card. In the end I got so many and got so frustrated I wrote 'FUCK OFF' on the envelope as I returned it 'Unsolicited Mail'. Never heard from them again.

[Smifffy]

They are bullshitting scumbags these direct marketers, so there may be a slight possibility that your optometrist knows nothing about it, and the scum just added the compliments tag and added a generic name of somebody you are likely to trust. If your optometerist really thought they were doing you a favour they would probably have also used the opportunity to add some of their own branding, ie business name etc, rather than just "your optometerist" - unless they did, and you have just simplified that bit for web consumption?

It's a lot like the almost daily email I get purporting to be from UPS quoting some bogus track & trace number for my important parcel that has some obscure technical delivery problem. (Like they aren't UPS and the parcel doesn't exist).

Wouldn't hurt to call the eye docs in any case.

[Fatt Max]

Yeah, bastards. Give em hell Mom.

It's when the pricks start ringing you at home from some call centre in Bangalore, who gave them my fecking home number.

When I made it known that sales of my music go to Starship, I had every fecking charity in the universe ringing and begging. Apparently once you say something like that or accept a free offer in the post, it gives evey leeching scumbag free reign on your life.

Yep, thay are bastards

As for this:

It's a lot like the almost daily email I get purporting to be from UPS quoting some bogus track & trace number for my important parcel that has some obscure technical delivery problem. (Like they aren't UPS and the parcel doesn't exist).

.......apparently these emails have a really desturctive attachment with them, or so I have been told....doing the rounds anyway

[Mom]

and your chicks for free?

How did you know I have a thing for balding blokes called Mark that play the geetar? Well ok, I will settle for bald ones

They are bullshitting scumbags these direct marketers, so there may be a slight possibility that your optometrist knows nothing about it, and the scum just added the compliments tag and added a generic name of somebody you are likely to trust. If your optometerist really thought they were doing you a favour they would probably have also used the opportunity to add some of their own branding, ie business name etc, rather than just "your optometerist" - unless they did, and you have just simplified that bit for web consumption?

It's a lot like the almost daily email I get purporting to be from UPS quoting some bogus track & trace number for my important parcel that has some obscure technical delivery problem. (Like they aren't UPS and the parcel doesn't exist).

Wouldn't hurt to call the eye docs in any case.

Wow, thank you for tempering my total cynic brain, a nice call will be the go in the morning. My optometrist thanks you too

[davereid]

Your optometrist may well have not thought it through, before he offered you the gift. But certainly your details have been given to a marketing company, and you will never get 'em back.

~ Aunty Maureen
Thought it would be nice to send us all "E-Cards". This nice service on the internet offers to do it FOR FREE. So Aunty went and filled out birthday cards for us. Of course that meant the ecard company knew lots about us, Our full names, birthday & DOB, real address and email address. So years of carefully avoiding sharing this data with Russians that I have never met was undone by Aunty Mo.

~The RSA
Its common, the misspelling of my surname, so it came as no surprise when my RSA membership card arrived, with "i" before "e" and an incorrect DOB as I now protect myself by using a different one for each person or company that request it.

But what I didn't expect was a letter from a life insurance company, offering me, or at least the misspelled me, life insurance based on (The RSAs version) of my DOB.

I cant prove it, but it would seem likely that "someone" in the RSA, may have leaked my details to an insurance company.

[MSTRS:Me]

It's not paranoia if they are watching...

[mdnzz]

Well Im just waiting for the 400,000 pounds that I won in the mobile sweepstakes. I'm a freakin millionaire
Yea brand new sim card, brand new ph (021) 2 weeks later this congrats text came thru. So If I have never given that number out and only registered it under my name how do you think they got it?
Oh an the number it came from....CONGRATS.......hmmmm

[Headbanger]

Heh, I was walking up my drive the other day and a copy of the local newspaper came flying over the fence onto my lawn, so I grabbed the fuckin piece of crap, went out the gate and to my disappointment the litter bug had moved to far along the street, so I threw it out on the road.

Next day I waited for the fucker, caught the newspaper, Threw it straight at the fuckers face.

Missed him, But the look on his mug was priceless.

I told him he was fuckwit for littering my property and if he done it again it was going down his throat, when he protested he was just delivering the paper (the morning paper arsehole, its now 4pm, If I had wanted to read the fucking thing I would have done so, Now the fuckers are getting rid of unwanted copies by throwing them on peoples fucking lawns, cant even use the fucking letter fucking box?) I asked him how much of a fuckwit he would consider me to be if I dumped my unwanted shit on his front lawn......






Haven't seen him since.

[Swoop]

Far canal, I tell SKY to BUZZ OFF with more frequency than I like, this no doubt will lead to more invasive attention to my hearth and home.

Simple.

When they call, stop them during their speech and tell them "I am formally requesting that you remove all of my details from your database AND any others that you have access to".

I did that with a few callers and they have ceased phoning. That was over three years ago.

[Gremlin]

I don't seem to get any of this? Then again, I'm barely ever home to pick up the landline and they don't do mobiles?