 NightfallMy Goal Is To Deny YoursPremium,MVM
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| While we are at it.... Its time to outlaw those stupid cards that some grocery stores use that enable you to save more off the price of your groceries. We have a local store that likes to bring the price of a grocery product down .20 cents if you have their card. What they don't tell you is that the card tracks your eating habits and they sell those to whomever they please or use it themselves.
Lets face facts here. Our habits are more easily tracked now than they ever were before. Our credit card companies are tracking our habits by how we use our cards. Do we buy from newegg a lot? If so, then these companies may be of interest. Even cash is easily tracked now by a little magnetic strip inside the bills that we have. I have heard of casinos that have installed devices that tell how much someone has when they walk through the door. Then, the people in the casino know if they should treat these people extra nice.
So whats a consumer to do? Here are some things I would do to keep you sane in this world of privacy invasion.
Get a separate phone line for all that spam and other garbage. We have a line at home that I bought as a $10 extra line on our cell phone plan. It sits on a charger at home with the volume turned off. Every day it gets hit with at least 10 calls from solicitors and so on. Whenever I fill out a form asking for my contact info, I use that line. I check the messages once a week and I typically have about 10 crap voice mails to clean off that phone by then.
Get a good antispam product. I use google mail which works great and is free.
Get a mailbox without a newspaper holder. Its illegal for someone to open your mailbox and throw junk mail in unless they are a postal employee. I have people driving up and down my road all the time throwing junk mail and free advertisement newspapers in that holder. The people who don't have a holder they just drive by.
Lastly, don't panic. Personally, I could care less if a company knows where I go on the internet. Nothing we are doing on the internet is private anyway. I could also care less if a store knows I eat Chips Ahoy cookies.
There is no way that government is going to come down on companies like this and stop this kind of privacy invasion. Consumer groups already tried that with the do not call list and while it did work for all the cold calls, I still get telemarketer calls on my phone because I have done business (IE bought something) with one of their partners. My advice is to vote your elected officials into office that are against this kind of thing. Best thing you can do at this stage of the game.
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| said by Nightfall:Its time to outlaw those stupid cards that some grocery stores use that enable you to save more off the price of your groceries. Just fill in bogus information in the application for the card. I happen to be Captain Nimrod, 45 E Adventure St, Apt -125.
I have a couple cards not tied to anyone because they let me take the application home (and I never returned it).
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| said by amigo_boy:Just fill in bogus information in the application for the card. I happen to be Captain Nimrod, 45 E Adventure St, Apt -125... Yes, you are...(couldn't resist a straight line like that one!) |
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said by amigo_boy:said by Nightfall:Its time to outlaw those stupid cards that some grocery stores use that enable you to save more off the price of your groceries. Just fill in bogus information in the application for the card. I happen to be Captain Nimrod, 45 E Adventure St, Apt -125. I have a couple cards not tied to anyone because they let me take the application home (and I never returned it). And don't forget to return all those postage-paid return envelopes you get with junk mail so the company that sends them is sure to pay the postage. Just be sure not to ID yourself. Big Brother IS watching 
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| said by Titus Pullo:And don't forget to return all those postage-paid return envelopes you get with junk mail so the company that sends them is sure to pay the postage. Just be sure not to ID yourself. Big Brother IS watching -- Actually, I take all the contents (including the original envelope) and put credit card offers in their postage-paid envelope and send them back. I noticed that after I did that for a couple months the amount of credit card offers drastically reduced.
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said by Titus Pullo:And don't forget to return all those postage-paid return envelopes you get with junk mail so the company that sends them is sure to pay the postage. Someone told me they tape them to a brick and drop them in a mail collection box (before the 1-lb limit which requires you to take things to the post office personally). I don't know if you can really do that. But, it sounded like an interesting possibility (to cost the recipient about $5 in postage).
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said by amigo_boy:said by Nightfall:Its time to outlaw those stupid cards that some grocery stores use that enable you to save more off the price of your groceries. Just fill in bogus information in the application for the card. I happen to be Captain Nimrod, 45 E Adventure St, Apt -125. I have a couple cards not tied to anyone because they let me take the application home (and I never returned it). Mark Have to admit, I do the same. I have yet to figure out how my cat got a credit card offer. Of course, the same idiot bank does try and "refinance" my house even though the mortgage is with them. 
FYI - Albertson's quit the card biz. They did a study and found customers thought it was just anoying. Winn Dixie did too.
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said by Nightfall:Its time to outlaw those stupid cards that some grocery stores use that enable you to save more off the price of your groceries. We have a local store that likes to bring the price of a grocery product down .20 cents if you have their card. What they don't tell you is that the card tracks your eating habits and they sell those to whomever they please or use it themselves. A Law Enforcement Officer I knew was building up a year supply of stuff; about 8 years ago (preSept11). He was purchasing cases of stuff from one of the chain grocery stores.
Some weeks later, he was ordered to report to the investigative arm of the State Law Enforcement Agency to explain a bulk purchase of cleaner and some other on the shelf product. Apparently they could be used to cobble together some bit of nastiness.
Later he went back and checked his receipt on the purchase and confirmed that he had paid cash that day, but had used his shopping card.
The store never felt compelled to mention it's arrangement with BigBro in the card agreement.
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Albertson's cards are alive and well.. its the only way you can get the sale price! |
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