Did you get any of the 4 new Pottery Barn catalogs today? We didn’t!
Entries from March 2008
Closing the (Pottery) Barn Door
January 30th, 2008 · No Comments
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?
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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?
Tags: General Frustration