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Entries from March 2008

Closing the (Pottery) Barn Door

January 30th, 2008 · No Comments

Did you get any of the 4 new Pottery Barn catalogs today? We didn’t!

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Tags: Follow-up · Success Story · Tips

What did you do Today?

January 25th, 2008 · No Comments

Check out our friends at CatalogChoice.org on the Today show.
If Anne Curry can get off, why not you?

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Tags: General Frustration · Good guys · Tips

(another reason) Ticketmaster is Evil

January 24th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Exorbitant handling fees. Weak seat selection. Jammed phone lines.
To this august list of Ticketmaster’s ills, add unapologetic name serializer.

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Tags: General Frustration · Name Serializer · Tips

J. sCREWed

January 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

Have you seen the new J.Crew catalog?
“Which one?” is the correct response — so far this year, they’ve already sent 2!

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Tags: Catalog Overkill

(American) Express Relief from Junk Mail

January 17th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Are you an American Express card holder? Get ready to get off.

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Tags: Name Serializer · Tips

Harry and David: Uh oh, Sergio

January 16th, 2008 · No Comments

In my battle with Harry and David, all was not peachy.

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Tags: Catalog Overkill · Emotional Spyware · Follow-up

And this is green how?

January 16th, 2008 · 1 Comment

You may have received one of these over the weekend:

Consider yourself lucky — I got 2.

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Tags: Bad guys · Catalog Overkill

When Jonny met Harry (and David), again

January 15th, 2008 · No Comments

Harry and David finally got back to me about all the catalogs they’ve been sending.

But their answer, like their Celebration Gift Basket, was kind of a mixed bag.

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Tags: Catalog Overkill · Emotional Spyware · Follow-up

Send a letter, Maria

January 11th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Name. Address. Phone number.

Data miners scour public records in order to sniff out these info truffles, which are then sliced, diced, and repackaged as mailing lists to serve you fresh junk mail daily.
Time to separate your pearls from those swine with this sample letter:

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Tags: General Frustration · Tips

My kingdom for an RSS

January 11th, 2008 · No Comments

At the risk of showing my incompetence, can someone please tell me how to get my RSS feed to work?

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Tags: General Frustration