Comments on: Featured on the Today Show

By: Michelle Weiner

Michelle Weiner — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:30:43 +0000

I am part of the Master Recyclers program here in Portland OR and it is great to have a resource and support from a company doing the right thing. Prevention of the printing and distribution of unwanted mail/catalogs is critical. Thank you!

By: Denise

Denise — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 02:14:39 +0000

My New Year’s resolution was to make changes. I use reusable shopping bags and energy efficient lights now. In the past calling companies still made it difficult to stop catalogs because if I ordered online the catalogs would start again. I am still receiving most of the catalogs I listed to stop over 2 months ago. I realize the companies are figuring this out, too. Thanks so much for trying to stop all this waste.

By: Mary

Mary — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:58:51 +0000

Yay. Isn’t that great news! Thanks so much for all the work you are doing to make this happen.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:19:04 +0000

Mary:

This weekend Orvis changed their position on Catalog Choice. They indicated that they would set up an account to download the names. As a gesture of goodwill, we changed the label to “Unconfirmed”. The label will automatically switch to Confirmed once they download the names.

Orvis was well aware of us, perhaps the person you spoke with was not aware of this fact. We have been in correspondence with them since November.

We are pleased that the additional pressure that consumers such as yourself put on Orvis caused them to change their position and start the process of honoring the request that you are entering on our site.

Thank you for your efforts! You are helping us make this work.

By: Mary

Mary — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:46:19 +0000

When you had the “Refused” tag for Orvis, I wrote them to complain about not honoring catalog choice opt-out requests. I mentioned that I wouldn’t be purchasing anything from them until I heard that they were honoring catalog choice opt-out requests. That’s a big sacrifice for me! (love their stuff) I’ve had responses from two different people at Orvis, both saying that catalog choice is a new service, they have no business relationship with you, and one of them said “we are not familiar” with catalog choice. I gave them the website address and encouraged them to learn more. Both emails to me suggested that DMA provides the service I want, but I’m not about to pay a dollar to get DMA (a merchants association) to stop something they initiated, nor am I about to give them my credit card number. (I think that Orvis is familiar with catalog choice, after reading earlier posts in this thread.)

A curious thing was that one of them said she believed that they had not sent a letter to catalog choice refusing, and now I notice that the tag for Orvis says “Unconfirmed.” So I’m confused… did they refuse your request or not? I don’t want to be scolding companies if they have not actually refused.

Thanks!

By: Kristen Staggs

Kristen Staggs — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 05:34:37 +0000

Thanks so much for the airing on the Today’s show. Myself and another member of our 130 club of women saw the show and are bringing it to the club as a service project. Tomorrow we will announce a contest to cancel 10K catalogs by March 1st.
Our club puts on a large Home, Garden & Antique Show every year for the past 22 years - this year our theme is “Going Green”. So this is sooo exciting for us.
Thanks again - this is a great website!

By: Erin M

Erin M — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:20:40 +0000

I constantly get duplicate catalogs to work and home, but no more! Signed up a few minutes ago and already eliminated 6 (x2) catalogs from my life!

By: LCK

LCK — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:39:00 +0000

to Dee and Chuck: I’ve noticed many catalogs changing the customer number with each catalog. Rather than saving the back page, I put the new number (and the date I received the catalog) in a “note” in the “more ” section and edit the note when new numbers come in. At first I was changing the number directly, but then I lost the info about when I had originally opted out, as only the updated date was available, and lost the fact that I had had to change the number in the first place.

By: Iris Halmos

Iris Halmos — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:40:16 +0000

Thank you Thank You

By: Pat Paulsen

Pat Paulsen — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:48:17 +0000

Since your system maintenance today, neither the “contact us” nor the “search” nor the “decline” features work. I am also wondering how long it takes to remove the pending tag and activate my account.