I've had a SLEW of catalogs delivered lately. Could it be that contributions to Democrats

[phylny]

for various campaigns caused my name and address to be sold for even more money?

Has anyone else had the same thing happen? It's not one or two. It's 40 or 50. I can't believe there are so many catalogs out there!

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Nah, I just got press releases from the Bachman campaign

Take my word on this, way out of coverage area.

[NashvilleLefty]

2. I think it's called "Christmas Season". nt

[phylny]

3. I've been living in this house for four Christmas seasons.

Never have I had this many catalogs delivered.

[TeamPooka]

11. It's called "a rebounding economy" nt

[femmocrat]

4. We get tons of them too.

I don't think it's from political contributions. If you ever ordered from any of them, they probably sold your name to all the others.

[JoePhilly]

5. Yea, that must be it.

[phylny]

7. Nice.

[The Wielding Truth]

6. The card I used to donate was used to enter me into a trucking ticket insurance program. $97.90.

I had to cancel my card and was able to get a refund. I'm not even a truck driver. I only used this card to donate.

Catalogs? No, No catalogs.

[phylny]

8. So are you saying someone abused your credit card

after you used it to donate?

See, I'm just wondering, because I have never had this number of totally obscure, off the wall catalogs (all spelling my name the same, with out my middle initial) and it started in September.

[The Wielding Truth]

15. Yep. My name, address, everything I disclosed on the donation to congressional candidates.

[RKP5637]

9. Was it a fake site? I often wonder about some sites maybe posing as donation sites but

really hucksters out to get your CC number, etc.

[The Wielding Truth]

17. No, because I got emails from the candidates after the donation. It seemed to be one

person who thought that they could use my card to get a sale and knew I would be compensated. I was upset though and I didn't know I would ever see that money again. It's been put back in my account. I have an investigation going on it from my credit card bank.

[Ruby the Liberal]

10. I think they sell the lists to each other.

Same thing is happening to me. I am getting catalogues from companies I never heard of. Easily 15-20 a week. I very rarely shop online with the exception of Amazon (I pay for Prime, so check there first) and Overstock. No clue where my name and address is getting into all of these databases, but it is getting annoying.

[TeamPooka]

12. you just listed the two biggest companies that sell info on customers.

[Ruby the Liberal]

14. ...and that would explain it.

Its worse than google ads. Buy a pair of shoes online and within 3 weeks, ~4 shoe-specific catalogues show up.

[Orangepeel]

13. No selling needed. Contributions to political campaigns are public information.

I'm sure somebody is collecting names and addresses and selling them. It's unlikely to be a campaign, and it remains to e seen why a catalog retailer would find that info any more useful than the phone book.

[Arkansas Granny]

16. It happens to me any time I order anything online or donate to a charity.

Most, if not all, sell their mailing lists.

[gollygee]

18. I always get a ton of catalogs at the beginning of the Christmas season

Some years more than others but I think it's just about Christmas.

[frazzled]

19. The only ones I've been getting are ...

pretty much the usual ones I've always gotten, from stores where I've bought things in the past. I haven't gotten all that many frankly, maybe 7 or 8. And I gave many political contributions over the past year. So I don't think it's coming from those lists.

[eridani]

20. I suspect it has a lot to do with what season of the year it is n/t

[Liberal_in_LA]

21. nope. I donated and ordered some Obama buttons. No more catalogs than normal