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THE ADVENTURE CREW: Master, The Nomad, Sweet Bird of Freedom (aka Freeta Roam), Pixie & Pod, Miss Cycle, Ivan the writing muse, Jude, and the brains of the crew--Croc. DOUBLE-CLICK ON ANY PHOTO TO ENLARGETuesday, May 17, 2005
OUTSMARTING THE MAN
POST BY JUDE
When supermarkets started requiring savings cards/club cards to "track" a customer's buying habits, I protested by not patronizing those stores. Now I do. Kind of.
My son got a card at Safeway and when I shop there I enter my home phone number and up pops Adam's name. That means my buys are attributed to him--so in effect I am still incognito.
Then I got a card at Albertsons, but put a wrong telephone number down (also an alias and ficticious address), and promptly threw away the card figuring I'd access their bargain buys by entering in the wrong number. But I forgot my wrong number, so I was soon back in my original fix.
Last year I got a membership at Camping World--a great place--www.campingworld.com-- using my cell number. BUT they mis-entered it into their computer, flipping the first 2 digits. So the first time I shopped there, my cell number didn't work and they had to look up my name.
The good part of this story is: I can actually remember the wrong number at Camping World, so now I give out that wrong number at other places, including people that I don't want calls from.
Hmmm, I'm thinking if I use this wrong number long enough, I won't get any more telemarketing calls.
I wonder if this will ruin my credit record.
I wonder if my wrong number actually belongs to someone.
When supermarkets started requiring savings cards/club cards to "track" a customer's buying habits, I protested by not patronizing those stores. Now I do. Kind of.
My son got a card at Safeway and when I shop there I enter my home phone number and up pops Adam's name. That means my buys are attributed to him--so in effect I am still incognito.
Then I got a card at Albertsons, but put a wrong telephone number down (also an alias and ficticious address), and promptly threw away the card figuring I'd access their bargain buys by entering in the wrong number. But I forgot my wrong number, so I was soon back in my original fix.
Last year I got a membership at Camping World--a great place--www.campingworld.com-- using my cell number. BUT they mis-entered it into their computer, flipping the first 2 digits. So the first time I shopped there, my cell number didn't work and they had to look up my name.
The good part of this story is: I can actually remember the wrong number at Camping World, so now I give out that wrong number at other places, including people that I don't want calls from.
Hmmm, I'm thinking if I use this wrong number long enough, I won't get any more telemarketing calls.
I wonder if this will ruin my credit record.
I wonder if my wrong number actually belongs to someone.
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