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Originally Posted by GenuineRisk
Not to mention that charities make a lot of money selling their mailing lists to other charities, which is why you get inundated with requests from other charities.
Mailing lists are worth a lot. Ron Paul recently tried to get supporters who were running ronpaul.com to give him the domain name. They offered him ronpaul.org, I believe, but said they should be paid $250,000 for .com, as it came with a mailing list of 170,000 that they had compiled over the years. He didn't want to pay, and complained to the United Nations, which told him to get the f*ck out.
I would have thought Ron Paul, of all people, would have respected the rules of the free market. But I guess the only part he really wanted was the "free" part. 
So yeah, mailing lists. Worth a lot.
On the bright side, I went years without having to print my own return address labels, thanks to unsolicited requests from charities. |
yeah, i get those labels too. didn't think about the mailing list part, that makes sense.
i went to a website several years ago to opt out of junk mail. that cut a lot of that.
tony and i went to an rv show a few months ago, and of course filled out slips for a 'chance to win ____'. a few days later, i got a call from a telemarketer. i asked how she got my number, it was from that show. lesson learned, i won't fill those out again.