Credit Card Junk mail

John_Johnson_3

jamalfatty wrote: »

With the state of my credit history at moment from when I was a financial train wreck a few years ago I would challenge anyone to do anything useful with my documents

Besides, junk mail very rarely if at all has any information on that isnt in public domain so nothing really that useful on it anyway, nothing to warrant the effort of going through my bins and piecing together thousands of strands of paper anyway

You are probably right but the more anonymous you are the better

hibees1875_2

On a slightly different note, but still a similar vein, i had british gas come to my door (3 times) to try and sell me their service. Fist 2 times i told them to go within 10 secs. However, third time round i made the chap stand on my doorstep late at night in the dark, raining, listening to his spiel for 20mins, then i said i wasnt interested and asked him to remove my details from their list of people to contact. Which he politely agreed to do. The point was, i had no intention of buying, i put that poor chap through a bit of torture, wasted his time a bit and hopefully he wasnt able to knock on as many successful doors which in turn costs the company more money for what i consider an unethical sales method. Every little helps when it comes to intrusive sales tactics. I do the same in town if i have the time to spare with people that approach selling sky, ntl etc etc because the time they spend talking to me is time not talking to a potential customer. When will these companies realise that consumers are savvy enough to search them out rather than vice versa. And those not savvy ebough to search them out in the first place probably are the ones they shouldnt be selling to. Y'know sometimes i feel like grandpa from the simpsons with one of his rambling pointless stories when i speak to sales people....

As a student i needed cash so i took an agency job selling mbna credit cards over the phone (scum i know... but times were harder than now) and the stupidity of the firm was unreal. They had us phoning man utd supporters during european games at night trying to sell them man utd loyalty credit cards. needless to say the fans werent too pleased!!! and i dont blame them. But just remember don't shout at the ones doing the low paid jobs selling these things. take your complaints to a higher level to someone who gets paid to take crap.

Why doesnt gordon brown put a GREEN tax on junk mail or companies sending out multiple thousands of prospective marketing letters. or at least like the car industry, enforce companies to recycle any returned junk mail as a matter of course. Or at least stop the fudging of companies buying carbon credits from each other to remain carbon neutral. Tut ive gone into grandpa simpson mode again.!!!! :rotfl:

lisyloo

The poll tax caused riots, thats why it was scrapped' No sane person is going to riot over Junk Mail.

I agree with you and I am not suggesting riots.

My point is that I believe that people can change the behaviour of companies IF enough people take action (big IF of course).

For example if sufficient numbers of people "opted out" of door-to-door mail from Royal mail then it would make life difficult for them and eventually they might consider dropping that product from their portfolio or at least not focussing on it at much in their business strategy.

If lots of companies actually get their junk mail back and have to pay admin staff to sort out genuine applications from junk mail then they might consider targetting their junk mail more carefully in future.
It's not only annoying for them to receive it but they have to actually employ someone to open the envelope, chack the contents and bin it as they can't risk throwing away genuine correspondance without checking.

lisyloo

Believe you still may have missed the first 6 words of my original post

Yep, I certainly had to look at it hard to see the significance.

I never mentioned anywhere about not trying to stop it being sent out in first place

Yes you are correct. You didn't mention about NOT stopping junking.
You have however contributed nothing to the discussion about stopping it so it doesn't come across as though you are motivated to put any effort into it at all.

Perhaps you are motivated but because (in your own words) you never mentioned it, then it doesn't come across.
Hence I had to look very hard for the signifcance.

If you do want to help people stop it then why not make some contributions to my list.