Who gets DU magazine and also....

Steve

Whenever I think about your job as a salesman I envision Glengarry Glen Ross. Leads man, where are the leads! bwahahahaha
 
or course! du can do no wrong. i guess it's my fault. to think.. i'm in IT and i've never thought to look for those little boxes. sure.

and just so you know....

DU DOES sell your information to anyone it so chooses, and it tells you that on their website. so be disappointed... it's happened. whether or not DU sold my information to the pajama place, if i knew they flat out tell you they were going to sell your info, i wouldn't have joined. i would have sent 20 bucks and said don't ever keep my address. i get enough spam in my emailbox.. dont' need it elsewhere.

and as for the little checkbox on the "application", i was automatically joined by buying a license plate at the DMV.. i didn't think i was joining, just donating.. there was no paperwork other than me handing over a check to the dmv for my registration fees.

jeff
I'm with Steve on this one, I have been a DU member for a lot of years and I haven't received the catalog you are talking about, nor any other junk mail I would associate with DU. I don't know about DU but I have noticed that some organizations have a little box to check on the application asking wither they can give your contact info to other organizations. I always check "no".

Beyond that, I believe DU has proven itself to be one of the least contentious, most effective conservation organizations in the history of the world. I do get a lot of other unrelated junk mail and catalogs that I don't want, I just throw them away. I guess that even if DU sold my contact info to other organizations, I would be a little disapointed, but certainly not to the point of quiting them.
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Eric, that movie was "required watching" at sales meeting when I was at G.E.....it got to the point where it was almost like the audiance participation viewings of "Rocky Horror Picture Show".....

We never threw things at the screen but we could definately muster up a group recitation that was word for word with the "LEADS" portions.....

Steve
 
I liked the part when Jack Lemmon makes the big sale to the elderly couple and is on cloud nine, only to learn they buy anything and everything showed to them and their checks were rubber.

That was a good movie but gawd I'd hate to be in that line of work.
 
It also could be your state game dept. I know in SD lists of people buying hunting licenses can be obtained by businesses, sunshine laws. I believe now we can ask to be hidden. When I have had deer tags I would get a couple adds from local deer processors. Sportsman's Warehouse must get lists also. I can tell by how my name is, Tim or Timothy and middle initial, and much of mine comes by way of the state and Mac's PW. Mac's must sell their list to everyone or someone they share with does.

I'd trade you all your junk mail for states and debt collectors trying to get money from a guy named Timothy Jones...and it is not me. Try to get off those lists. No personal history or data matches so it isn't a case of identity theft. He just has a name close to mine and lived in this area at one time. They trade info, bad info at that, just like catalog companies.

Tim
 
a single catalog from anyone.....

How in the heck do you handle the exposure that comes from selling on E-Bay....I buy on E-Bay and get unsolisited e-mails and hard mail from them regularly. I can imagine that happens with sellers as well....does that piss you off to the same level as a catalog does? Have you quit selling on E-Bay as a result?

Never said they "didn't" just said I didn't know...but like I said even knowing that they do isn't going to stop me from supporting them because they are supporting the things that I appreciate....for sure they are making money from it but it benefits me and that far better than the other groups that do it just to add to their own profit margin and to their overinflated CEO bonuses....

Steve
 
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I work with a company that maintains and sells targeted address lists of all the boat owners in the US. I haven't asked them, but I imagine most of us here are in their database. Also, the warranty cards you fill out or call in for new products are all handled directly by the list sellers. They take care of all the data entry for the manufacturer.

Man, if you worry about that kind of thing there is plenty to keep you awake at night!


Ed
 
That's why I make a terrible corporate stooge. I'd have put my fist right through Alec Baldwin's solar plexis and then run off to the bathroom to look at a Victoria's Secret catalog to make myself feel better.

The way those red jammies drape on her slender hips...it's very sweet. Like a nice red apple.
 
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My favorite is the mortgage companies. You can fill out an app for one to refinance and the next thing you know there are 14 offers in the mail every other day. I love the hand written ones "Jay, This is Steve...reviewing your loan it seems you and the wife could be saving TONS of money. You need to get a hold of me right away before these rates change...I'm thinking I can get you about 300K in cash back with something coming in around 1%. You're already approved on our end"..... And then you look closer and it's actually been printed on a printer to look perfectly hand written...the envelope is too...all weird and unbalanced like the guy was in a hurry to write so I could save more money. They even use real stamps. Man, I love those. I'd like to hunt old Steve down and smack him upside the head with a late notice.

Jay
 
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stomp a mud puddle in their chest?

Last week it was the PT guy that hurt you while trying to help you, today its an actor in a movie, or any counterpart in the Corp. Wienie World that you apparantely think so highly of, and now the anonymous letter writer....

I'm reminded of the exchange int he movie, SLEEPERS, where one of the "good guys" in the show is setting up a "bad guy" for a fall with the Police...the Policeman that is getting the "iron clad" proof from the "Good Guy" states...

"If I ever get on your shit list please give me a call so I can apologize".....

Sounds like you'll be a busy man when you open that ass kicking parlor....

Steve
 
I get these Bill looking things in the mail from yellow page advertising..look legit and if you weren't reading well enough to see the "this is not a bill" in small print..you'd swear it was your yellow page bill...if you have a yellow page listing. credit card companies got wise to me..tempt my ass with 0% will they! Got a zero % card..tapped it out then switched to other zero % cards when the "introductory" time ran out..free money for like two years..then they quit sending me the 20 some "offers" a day and I paid it off..no interest no fee's. The only spam I ever had that I felt good about.
 
By the way, I didn't even notice that I used your name as my alias guy-sorry about that. I actually did have one with the name Steve once I recall!

You know, come to think of it you're right...I need to take a deep breath and relax. This sitting around taking care of my bride stuff is getting old. "All sitting around and no work makes Jay a crazy boy".

The only guy that really deserved it was the guy that yelled at us the other day while we were hunting. Hey, the PT guy hurt me. He really did...like they had to go in and fix something after he was done with me. I can't stand Alec Baldwin or his character but I wouldn't have really punched him. Maybe I'd have quit instead!

All the violence and rage! Maybe it's watching 24 that has done this to me?
 
the use of "Steve" was Fruedian.....buwhahahahahahahahah....

As a now ex nephew used to say to his quick to anger youngest son.....

DEEP CLEANSING BREATHS.....DEEEEPPPPP CLLLLEEEANNNSSSSIIIINNNGGG BREATHSSSSSssssssssss....

And then the kid shot him....

Steve
 
Hmmmm...so you lnow where this guy lives??? Maybe you could do him a "favor" and submit his name and addy on a couple marketing cards..you ever get those ?..The ones that come as a stack with about 50 card ads in them? If you do would you send me the Garden Way one with the Troy Bilt tiller on it? I can't seem to be able to find a Troy Bilt tiller any other way;)
 
I doubt it was...but maybe. I figure there are your basic names you use in a story...for me Bob is number one. But there is also Bill, Pete, and of course Steve. I'm going to chalk it up to that!

Deep Cleansing Breaths......Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. I feel great if it weren't for the headache.
 
Lee, I shite-canned it a long time ago. I don't even look at them. I was fooled a couple times with those "hand" written ones. Of course, right now that's on the back burner...that little detail called "stated income".

Breath......uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.............
 
Here's a get even or ahead idea. When you get really pissed off at someone, put an add in the newspaper selling their car. Give it a great discount price and the persons name and phone number. Pay cash for the add so no trace. Or put in Craigs list.
 
Per Sutton's comment...I'd get that all wrong. I'd do exactly as you say and then I'd sneak over in the night and burn it too. Like Norman Bates when he poisons his mothers tea in Psycho 2. He puts it in and then hits her over the head with shovel. Redundancy man...redundancy!
 
By taking care of my bride I meant that I'm taking care of my bride. She's been on bedrest for 9 weeks. The twins are coming...the twins are coming! Mr Mom I am. In fact...off to get the kids at school.
 
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