Anybody get "misread" by marketers?

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See, you're cooler than me. I give out my grandparents' zip code.

A perfect example of why I hate that crap... ESPECIALLY the baby formula stuff. Why is pregnancy and motherhood capitalized on? Because they can... and it's horrific. I'm so sorry that happened. Blech.

I have had salesmen, litteraly stalk me. I said I wasn't intrested and he STILL followed me. I was afraid he was going to follow me out to the car. I don't like people following me anyway, it makes me have meltdowns. I filpped my middle finger at the man and he got the message. If that didn't work, I was ready to kick him in the "boys".

I get junk mail. I throw it in the bin.
I get junk email. I hit "empty".
It's not a big problem for me.

A man did that to me in Paris. It was very annoying and I saw it as harrassment and then he finally backed off when mom and I kept on walking away. In that city there are tons of people selling stuff and if one of them stops you to draw a picture of you or to tie a string around your wrist, don't do it because then they end up charging you. I wouldn't trust anyone in the streets who have stuff.

Hmmm, maybe I should start giving the address of governomental agencies instead.

Or better yet, find out who owns the company and give them their address

It's a marketing strategy known is "throw enough crap at the wall until some of sticks". It's nothing to do with you personally at all.

At the risk of asking a foolish one, what TD bank would it be?

Canada has a TD bank, whose full name is Toronto-Dominion Bank (white letters "TD" on a green field).

One more thing: you said something about being addressed by the opposite gender. In other words, they thought "Mick" was short for Michaela as opposed to Mickey?

hehe whatever works to subvert the marketing machine




Yeah, that would be a good turnaround as well, but too much bother looking up each company to make it fun. It reminds of the Seinfeld episode where Jerry asks the telemarker for their number so he can call them back. Classic.

I find my 2 stand-bys for jamming big brother work well in amusing me

That kind of thing disgusts me too.

When I was a kid and this was in the 70s when advertising was far less shamless than it is now, my dad refused to buy any productes that were advertised, on principle, because he refused to contribute to their advertising budgdet.

What I find galling is that here in NYC there are billboards that take up the entire sides of buildings, there is Times Square with its flashing screens, which is one of the most dystopian places I've ever been, there are construction sites where the plywood barriers are completely papered in posters for new releases of movies and mainstream music, yet it's illegal for a person to put up a flyer on a telephone pole to advertise her garage sale, or a gig by her little underground band, or an announcement for a demonstration or community event, and there are heavy fines levied for such postings. If it were true that the rationale behind it is that flyers on telephone poles are unsightly, then wouldn't giant billboards be considered even more so? Nope, the way it goes is that you only have freedom of speech if you have big bucks to buy advertising space.

If a total stranger got close enough to tie a string around my wrist, they WOULD get kicked in the "boys". Luckily I don't plan to go to Paris anytime soon. If I ever had to go there on buisness, I would go strictly to the zoo, university or whatever and then go home. No sight seeing for me.