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Offline Nemesis

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Handling unwanted credit card applications.
« on: December 05, 2004, 07:22:55 pm »
Earlier tonight I was visiting my parents and my father mentioned his way of handling unwanted credit card applications.  If they include a postage paid evelope he rips them up and uses the envelope to mail it back to them.   That way the credit card company pays the postage cost, then the cost of handling and disposing of the recieved mail.  If enough people were to do the same perhaps they would get the hint and stop sending unsolicited applications.

The same might be done with other types of junk mail.
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Re: Handling unwanted credit card applications.
« Reply #1 on: December 06, 2004, 05:33:37 am »
Funny enough, I've been doing that for years...the junk still comes in tho'...but I send thier envelopes back.

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Re: Handling unwanted credit card applications.
« Reply #2 on: December 06, 2004, 06:12:47 pm »
I just like the idea of this catching on.  Imagine if everyone did it.  100s of thousands coming back constantly at the cost of the creditcard company. 
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Re: Handling unwanted credit card applications.
« Reply #3 on: December 06, 2004, 07:13:09 pm »
Take it to the next level:  Reply to every peice of spam you get by sending a copy of all the spam from everyone you have in your inbox to every one.  So, they send you one, you forward them thirty...heh.   I may have to start doing that...
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Re: Handling unwanted credit card applications.
« Reply #4 on: December 06, 2004, 07:33:39 pm »
Quote from: Angel Slayer on December 06, 2004, 07:13:09 pm
Take it to the next level:  Reply to every peice of spam you get by sending a copy of all the spam from everyone you have in your inbox to every one.  So, they send you one, you forward them thirty...heh.   I may have to start doing that...

The problem is most of the spammers don't use honest E-Mail addresses, you get too many innocents whose ID has been stolen.  The better thing to do is what Slashdot did.  They posted a spammers home address.  Many Slashdotters signed him up for free catalogs.  Some even bought him magazine subscriptions (to really offensive magazines).  He was getting trucklords of mail.  He was a trifle annoyed.  The Slashdotters were satisfied.

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Re: Handling unwanted credit card applications.
« Reply #5 on: December 06, 2004, 07:43:54 pm »
The problem is, how do you find them?  Better to just track down the CEO of the company that does it, and sign them up.  Maybe they would get the idea.
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Re: Handling unwanted credit card applications.
« Reply #6 on: December 07, 2004, 10:34:43 am »
Better yet sign up the company, then go to the news and say "Look what X company gives its employees for reading material!"
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Re: Handling unwanted credit card applications.
« Reply #7 on: December 07, 2004, 10:50:51 pm »
I wonder if you taped the return envelope to a brick..would they have to pay the shipping???  What a nasty idea....

Mike

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Re: Handling unwanted credit card applications.
« Reply #8 on: December 08, 2004, 06:47:18 pm »
Quote from: Capt. Mike on December 07, 2004, 10:50:51 pm
I wonder if you taped the return envelope to a brick..would they have to pay the shipping???  What a nasty idea....

Mike



Lead sheets within the envelope.  I can arrange that. 
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