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Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Summerville, SC
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Targeted Marketing -- Missed by a Mile!
I got a jewelry company catalog in the mail yesterday with Rolex watches being the highlight of their offerings.
Yea, like I would ever spend $35,000 on a watch! I don't know who they bought my name from, or what purchase I could have made that would put me on the list as a possible purchaser of such items, but do know that this "targeted marketing" attempt missed by a mile! It actually got me thinking that I had better check my credit reports to see if someone has swiped my identity -- it just doesn't fit in with my usual targeted mailings. Maybe Northern Tool or Cabela's sold my name to this jewelry retailer? |
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11-26-2006, 10:37 AM
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Cars & Coffee Killer
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: State of Failure
Posts: 32,246
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I've noticed I've gotten a lot of these things since I bought my first Porsche 3 years ago. I know in Illinois, the DMV sells your name to marketers--and there is absolutely nothing you can do about it.
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Some Porsches long ago...then a wankle... 5 liters of VVT fury now -Chris "There is freedom in risk, just as there is oppression in security." |
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11-26-2006, 05:38 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: West of Seattle
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When I was a college student and computer science major, I used to get IBM's catalog, listing $35,000 computers. I don't know how they figured out I was rich beyond my wildest imagination. :rollseyes:
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'86 911 (RIP March '05) '17 Subaru CrossTrek '99 911 (Adopt an unloved 996 from your local shelter today!) |
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11-27-2006, 01:53 AM
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durn for'ner
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: South of Sweden
Posts: 17,090
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Apparently I am considered well off since I bought my $20k Carrera. I frequently get flashy ad material and catalogs. Not least from car dealers, like Ferrari.
Maybe they just missed a zero. I did not by a Porsche for $200k.
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11-27-2006, 02:56 AM
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Back in the saddle again
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Central TX west of Houston
Posts: 55,964
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My first year of college, I didn't own a car, just a bicycle, lived in the dorms. One day I got a thing in my mailbox that said that I had a package. When I picked the package up it was a poster tube from Porsche NA. It was a poster of a turbo with an invitation to setup a test drive. I thought that was pretty darn funny. I wish I had the poster still.
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Steve '08 Boxster RS60 Spyder #0099/1960 - never named a car before, but this is Charlotte. '88 targa  SOLD 2004 - gone but not forgotten
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