In article <867ijod3x5.fsf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Steve Coltrin <spcoltri@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> "Default User" <defaultuserbr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
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> > Steve Coltrin wrote:
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> >> Robert Hutchinson <servoid@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
> >>
> >> > Steve Coltrin wrote:
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> >> >> The last time I used my credit card at Target, the machine printed
> >> me >> a coupon for my brand of cat food - and I wasn't buying cat
> >> food then. >> Note the use of language - that was the *last time* I
> >> used my credit >> card there.
> >> >
> >> > Was it a popular brand? I see room for coincidence there.
> >>
> >> Why, when I paid with credit before or cash after, did they never
> >> give me coupons for dog food, or motor oil, or tampons, or something
> >> else I don't buy?
> >
> > The register coupon systems I've seen dispense them in response to
your
> > current purchases. Like today, I got a $1.50 coupon for Kikkoman soy
> > sauce. I had purchased Hoisin.
>
> Hello? See up there where I said I wasn't buying cat food? Nor,
> for that matter, any other feline-related product.
>
> > It's possible that it happened as you say, but so what? The cards
> > gather all kinds of data on your purchasing. What's your objection,
> > that you saw them use it? That seems mighty silly, especially as it
was
> > of benefit to you.
>
> Hello? See up there where I said 'credit card', not 'let us make lists
> of what you buy card'? My objection is to them gathering any data
> about my purchases, or anyone else's for that matter.
Agreed, 100%. I don't much care to have "them", whoever the "them" might
be, able to look at a database and say "On day X, he bought product Y".
I don't care if product Y is legal, gray market, outright illegal, or
anything else. What I buy is MY business, and if I want someone knowing
about it, I'll tell them. Until I do, it's a case of "You're putting
your nose in MY business - it doesn't belong there. BUTT OUT!"
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