It isn't just loyalty cards that are abused.
Way back in 1993, I visited a "Sports and Automotive" store in the northwest U.S. I was going on a camping trip with friend who had a.22 rifle, so I picked up some targets and a few boxes of ammunition. I paid for this, along with a lot of other items, with my recently acquired debit card. Two months later, I got a membership application from the National Rifle Association with the salutation, "Dear Gun Owner".
Should I have gone after the store, the bank, or the NRA? I still like the store, but I have paid in cash there for the last 7 years.
Archie McFee was there first!
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Archie McFee has had these for years, and a lot cheaper, too. Great for Science Fairs and Department meetings.
Order new, used(!) and paperback from "The World's Greatest Bookstore", Powell's Books, Portland, Oregon, USA. Great selection, general and technical, great service, great web site. (Not a shill, just a happy customer.)
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Scott Adams knows this trick, too. See the DILBERT cartoon for Monday, August 21.
(This may be a more common tactic than I thought.)
It isn't just loyalty cards that are abused. Way back in 1993, I visited a "Sports and Automotive" store in the northwest U.S. I was going on a camping trip with friend who had a .22 rifle, so I picked up some targets and a few boxes of ammunition. I paid for this, along with a lot of other items, with my recently acquired debit card. Two months later, I got a membership application from the National Rifle Association with the salutation, "Dear Gun Owner".
Should I have gone after the store, the bank, or the NRA? I still like the store, but I have paid in cash there for the last 7 years.
Archie McFee has had these for years, and a lot cheaper, too. Great for Science Fairs and Department meetings.
Order new, used(!) and paperback from "The World's Greatest Bookstore", Powell's Books, Portland, Oregon, USA. Great selection, general and technical, great service, great web site. (Not a shill, just a happy customer.)