Yesterday I promised to tell you how many credit card solicitations I received in June. After all, part of the problem with credit cards is that the companies marketing them are constantly bombarding the population with offer after offer.
Now for the results.
In June I received 21 credit card solicitations. Yes, that many (and yes, the number I received in May). Only two people ventured a guess and while they were both close, they were both also too low.
Adding these up, if I receive as many credit card solicitations every other month of the year, that means I'll get 252 solicitations in the mail this year for credit cards. When you add in TV commercials, magazine ads, emails, banner ads, and the like, it's hard telling how many offers I get in a year. Certainly hundreds, maybe thousands.
This month I'm definitely getting off the mailing lists.
Wouldn't it just be easier to trash the solicitations rather than waste the time trying to get off the mailing lists.
Posted by: Doug Rees | July 07, 2005 at 06:23 PM
Hey! I was closest, and I don't even get a mention in passing?
Doug: Many of the offers contain 'preapproved' applications that could be used stolen from your mailbox and used to do evil things.
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Posted by: nickel | July 07, 2005 at 09:43 PM
Hey! I was closest, and I don't even get a mention in passing?
Doug: Many of the offers contain 'preapproved' applications that could be used stolen from your mailbox and used to do evil things.
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Posted by: nickel | July 07, 2005 at 09:43 PM
Hehe...even if you do try to get off the list, you could end up getting CC offers to Mr. No Junk Mail Please at your address. (Source: inside back cover of August 2005 issue of Consumer Reports)
Posted by: mbhunter | July 08, 2005 at 01:14 AM
Nickel --
I didn't want to call attention to the fact that you were off by almost 20%. Not good advertising for a financial blog. ;-)
FMF
Posted by: FMF | July 08, 2005 at 09:53 AM