Comments on: Fulfilling your requests - Status Update

By: juanita Williamson

juanita Williamson — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:36:50 +0000

please do not send

By: Lynda

Lynda — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:42:26 +0000

Re: Chuck : …As a company, it is difficult to follow all these “opt-out” lists….

Why should it be any harder than adding new names from new mailing lists? That certainly does not seem to be too difficult for most businesses to accomplish.

By: Catherine McEwen

Catherine McEwen — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 02:20:10 +0000

I am still getting the catalogs I asked to have stopped. The ‘report infractions” link does not work. I am very frustrated, as I had looked forward to reducing the items I send to the landfill each week.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 00:58:45 +0000

What authority gives any business the right to profit from the sale/trade/rent of my name and address, to deposit unrequested trash in my mailbox, and to force me to pay for its disposal? When I signed up with Catalog Choice, I personally authorized the website to carry out a specific action at my request. I don’t care if it’s difficult for an advertiser to integrate multiple opt-out lists and requests–I’m already losing time and money sorting and dumping junk mail. I think Catalog Choice should be far more aggressive about revealing catalogs and companies that don’t cooperate promptly. (Why give them two 10-week periods to come around?) Regarding those companies that ignore my opt-out requests, I stop doing business with them. There are plenty of competitors who deserve my business for cooperating with my opt-out request. What is the compliance rate for successful opt-out requests? Has any company agreed to honor the requests and followed through? A webpage listing the cooperating companies would be handy…if there were any.

By: Laurie

Laurie — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 01:49:58 +0000

The problem with catalogend.com is that you have to spend $15.95 for them to delete the first 100 catalogs and $0.25 for each additional catalog after that. And they say it could take up to 6-9 months to stop getting catalogs. I don’t care where these companies “get their list” the should honor the request of people to be removed …period. Maybe if the companies LISTENED to people to have written, called or email NUMEROUS requests to be removed from their mailing list companies like catalogchoice.org, catalogend.com, stopthejunkmail.com et.al wouldn’t have to exist.

By: Just Curious

Just Curious — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 22:18:30 +0000

I agree with your mission. We need to reduce catalog waste. But, I have a questions, what authority does Catalog Choice have to force this on catalog companies? No company wants to send promotional materials but it is very difficult to know which one to honor and which one is genuine. In other words, apart from the DMA and Catalog Choice, here are some other companies that offer the similar service: http://www.stopthejunkmail.com, http://www.CatalogEnd.com, JunkMailReduction.Greendimes.com… As a company, it is difficult to follow all these “opt-out” lists.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:12:47 +0000

Laurie:

Due to the overwhelming popularity of our service, we are still working through the large list of “suggested catalog titles”. We will be adding these as our Customer Service Team confirms the merchant information. Thanks. Chuck

By: Laurie Bluth

Laurie Bluth — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 04:40:32 +0000

I really support this idea. I have just started to see the creeping back of a couple I originally posted and have changed the customer number on the catalog.

My concern comes with the catalogs I have requested be added. Most of this came in November, however, I put several in today which may be duplicates of those already entered. I have not received any emails concerning these catalogs being added. Can you give me an update on this, please?

Thanks for all of your efforts!

By: Catherine McEwen

Catherine McEwen — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:10:04 +0000

The ’still receiving link’ does not work, very frustrating….I love the idea of what you are doing, and hope that the kinks will get worked out…..

By: Isa Schaff

Isa Schaff — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 01:50:18 +0000

I have been entering catalogs like crazy since Nov 1 and I would expect now to see them decrease… however, since the “My choice” list does not indicates when the entry was made, how am I going to know which now is not repsonding? (I am willing to give them the 8/10 weeks leeway… though it seems a lot!) I do remember some of the first names, but after that it is a blur.
Tonight, however I received a catalog that i declined weeks ago WITH A NEW CUSTIOMER NUMBER!!!!
I am so outraged!