10-09-2010, 05:10 AM
This sounds like data mining.
That is when a company you do business with gets you to share information about yourself through surveys, the information on forms you've filled out for them, and in some cases, even credit reports. Sometimes they will even claim THEY will not share the information, but the 3rd party they contracted with to collect and process the information is not bound by that, and does sell the information. The question about the new car purchase makes me think they are doing just that, unless they are anticipating a wave of electric car sales in a place with the highest electric rates in the country.
Helco reminds me of the old joke about the Bell telephone slogan before it was broken up into regional phone companies: "We don't care, because we don't have to."
Carol
That is when a company you do business with gets you to share information about yourself through surveys, the information on forms you've filled out for them, and in some cases, even credit reports. Sometimes they will even claim THEY will not share the information, but the 3rd party they contracted with to collect and process the information is not bound by that, and does sell the information. The question about the new car purchase makes me think they are doing just that, unless they are anticipating a wave of electric car sales in a place with the highest electric rates in the country.
Helco reminds me of the old joke about the Bell telephone slogan before it was broken up into regional phone companies: "We don't care, because we don't have to."
Carol
Carol
Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Polish Proverb
Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Polish Proverb