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Entries Tagged as 'Follow-up'

One Year Today!

June 6th, 2008 · No Comments

Loose the trumpets! Sound the confetti! Off The List is 1 year’s old.
How’s it feel?
As empty as my mailbox.

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(un)American Express

April 7th, 2008 · No Comments

After receiving my 4th piece of direct mail from American Express OPEN for Business in 5 days, I have no other choice.
I have declared war on American Express.

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Tags: Follow-up · General Frustration · Hostage Marketing · Name Serializer

Limited Response

March 24th, 2008 · No Comments

Squeaky wheels occassionaly get something more than grease.
In this case, a little smoke up my butt from Limited Too Customer Service.

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DMA vs. Dataquick — And the answer is…

March 10th, 2008 · No Comments

Dataquick!
The DMA was actually very responsive and emailed confirmation of our opt-out registration — as of September 2007 — which I forwarded to Dataquick.
Now, we’ll see just how compliant “the real estate information experts” truly are.

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Ticketmaster Strikes Back

February 7th, 2008 · No Comments

The evil empire heard my plea — and shrugged.

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Tags: Follow-up · Name Serializer

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

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

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