God, please.
I went to CC the other day to pick up a GameCube game, and the register drone REFUSED TO SELL ME THE GAME unless I gave him my name, address, and telephone number. Circuit City lost a customer that day. I cannot think that the money they make from selling/exploiting the lists on information they get has ever counterbalanced the money they use by driving away customers.
Huh, I just bought some stuff from the CC in Gurnee, IL on Sunday and they didn’t ask for anything. Maybe it varies by location?
Radio Shack: You have questions, we have acne.
They didn’t ask me down here in Georgia.
Circuit City has never asked me for anything. Toys R Us always asks for a phone number, and I either say no or give them my old dorm number that I haven’t used in several years. Best Buy sometimes asks for my Zip code, which I don’t mind giving, but I like to mess with them by giving my home one if it’s the school Best Buy and my school Zip code if it’s the home Best Buy.
Wegmans might also be wondering why someone from my town spends 99% of his Wegmans money in a store several hours away.
It must’ve been at least 3 months ago when I heard this on NPR (I think there might’ve been a slashdot story too), why would they be rereporting it now? Just curious.
It’s just now been made part of their actual ad campaign I think. Pretty pathetic when the best thing you can say to get people into your store is “Hey! We don’t ask for your address anymore!”
(My theory was that they finally noticed it was the same half-dozen nerds going there and buying stuff. Not exactly a high-volume shop.)
Why did they have to ask for addresses in the first place? Every customer who uses checks or plastic is giving them that info anyway. The ppl who pay cash for small things like batteries aren’t getting anything substantial enough to offset earnings with junk mail printing and mailing costs.
At my local Radio Shacks, they’ve traded one evil for another. Instead of asking for my name/address, now they ask me who my cellular carrier is, then give me the hard cell for Sprint.
Screw you and just give me my rca-to-s-video converter…
At my local Radio Shacks, they’ve traded one evil for another. Instead of asking for my name/address, now they ask me who my cellular carrier is, then give me the hard sell for Sprint.
Screw you and just give me my rca-to-s-video converter…
Ferret Herder, it WAS the Gurnee Circuit City I was at. I was up there visiting my folks, and stopped at the Mills to shop. Maybe I just caught the sales kid on a bad day. Crazy.