Who sold my information?
That’s a question my wife and I often ask each other. Several times a week, or so it seems, we receive a new catalog from some company — JCrew, LL Bean, a random home furnishings store we’ve never heard of. It’s always fun to look through them and pick out what we would buy if we were trying to get back into debt.
The point is, we don’t need all these catalogs we never requested. And so we’ve tried to put a stop to them by calling some of the companies and requesting that we be taken off the mailing lists. Yeah, right – it couldn’t be that easy. Catalogs still flood our mailbox.
Being amateurs of the “remove our names from your mailing lists game,” we failed to get the results we expected. So it appears that we’ll have to enlist the help of a professional. In this case, that professional is Catalog Choice, a free service that helps you get your name removed from mailing lists. The process seems simple: sign up, find the catalogs you no longer want to receive and sit back and see (or in this case, you won’t see) the results. As a bonus, if you continue receiving unwanted catalogs after you use the service, they will follow up with the merchant.
So I’m off to sign up for Catalog Choice.
In a follow up post, I will review the process and the effectiveness of this service. Wish us luck!
