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- From: jill@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Jill Lundquist)
- Subject: Re: Phone numbers?
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 21:48:57 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan26.162317.12610@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> fowlerc@boulder.colorado.edu writes:
- >
- >In my experience, the phone number is there only to contact you if the check
- >bounces. Although it's suspected that merchants compile telemarketing
- >lists, I've never met one who did.
-
- I have, though it was a mailing list instead of telemarketing.
- I worked for a company that was both a retail outlet and a mail
- order organization. The managers of the retail outlets were
- given bonuses of some kind from their higher-ups for getting a
- lot of names on the mailing list. There was a contest (monthly
- drawing for neat stuff) to get names, but our manager also
- required the salesfolk to copy names and addresses from
- customers' checks to get more of them.
-
- However, this is not quite the same situation; the company
- did not require (nor ask for) phone numbers on checks. They
- just took whatever you chose to preprint, which unfortunately
- always includes the address.
-
- It was a large hassle, too. Safeway is much smarter, getting
- people to run their cards through a machine that lets them keep
- track of who bought what and when. I don't use those. But
- then, I avoid Safeway as much as I can because I can't stand
- hearing advertisements while buying things.
-
- --
- Jill Lundquist jill@cs.colorado.edu DoD #882
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