the artist formerly known as ish Posted September 1, 2005 Report Share Posted September 1, 2005 My lad Trevor aged nine, received in the mail today Geico insurance information offering quotes for motorcycle insurance, who gives them this information ? only place I can think is the AMA,if so are they selling our personal info ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alan bechard Posted September 1, 2005 Report Share Posted September 1, 2005 Call Geico and ask. I imagine they are required to tell you. There are a lot of information gathering services out there that you can buy mailing lists from. We looked into several that we could purchase for the lawncare business to do targeted mailings, with the ability of computers to store so much information and sort and catogorize it, it was amazing too me how specific we could request the lists to be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the artist formerly known as ish Posted September 1, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 1, 2005 Called!! AMA is the source. They said they would remove him from the list, I'm not happy he was on a list in the first place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charliechitlins Posted September 1, 2005 Report Share Posted September 1, 2005 They sell those lists, too. Then they use the money to fight helmet laws...except at their own events. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronm Posted September 2, 2005 Report Share Posted September 2, 2005 I am not sure, but I seem to remember a box on the AMA membership form that you can check if you do not want them to share your info. I am always careful about things like this but although my mailbox always seems to be full of crap I never asked for, I don't get anything I could trace back to the AMA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the artist formerly known as ish Posted September 2, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 2, 2005 It was the AMA I called and asked,I know it's no big deal throwing junk mail in the trash bin, but shouldn't they ask you to sign for the permission to use your personal information rather than if you don't tick some obscure box we will sell your information to any Tom, Dick and con man who is willing to buy it. Most the riders in this area are not members of the AMA, and I very seldom use it, only time it is needed is for US national events, and I haven't ridden any in the past two years, I informed them that if the junk mail keeps on coming it will go in the bin, so will the next membership renewal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian r Posted September 2, 2005 Report Share Posted September 2, 2005 I've told my wife I'm going to build a furnace that I can use to burn junk mail. Just keep it all year and heat your house for free all winter! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toofasttim Posted September 2, 2005 Report Share Posted September 2, 2005 Better still, post it back to sender marked "postage to be payed by addressee". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinell Posted September 2, 2005 Report Share Posted September 2, 2005 My Dad sends the junk mail back in the pre-paid envelope. It doesn't cost them 'owt if you simply throw it in the bin but it costs them the price of a stamp if you send them their own junk mail back - Revenge isn't expensive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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