Solution: Catalog Choice, Catalogchoice.org
I don't know about you, but I get tons and tons of unwanted catalogs on a weekly basis.
I'm pretty sure it's because of my magazine subscriptions, but I get the most irrelevant mail order catalogs in the world. I've been meaning to call every single one to ask to be removed from the list - but of course I haven't gotten around to it yet.
Look what I found (via Real Simple)...
Catalogchoice.org helps you unsubscribe in seconds. You basically enter in your details, choose from a list of magazines and voila - they'll contact the culprits for you. Unfortunately it will take some time (10 weeks) to see the results, but hey I'll give it a shot. And the best part? If you continue receiving a catalog, even after you've declined - you can go back to the site and report the infraction and they'll follow up with the merchant.
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I tried this service for about 10 months, faithfully tracking each catalog, when I received it, opting out, patiently waiting ten weeks (getting new ones all along), and in every case, I ended up reporting new infractions, up to a point when, for one of the catalogs, the status was that the sender declined my opt-out! So their intentions are great, but their authority is weak unfortunately.
The only way I seemed to get out of some of these is by calling and/or emailing the customer service folks at each catalog and requesting to be removed.
In some cases, I kept getting them sent to "Resident." It's a nightmare and so anti-eco!
I do still use catalog choice to log all my request-removal activities...
Care, sorry to hear you had such a bad experience.
We've used it for several months with reasonable - but not perfect results. Some of the catalogs were stopped quite quickly while others were more stubborn.
I think it ultimately depends on the individual retailers who obviously aren't too keen on stopping one of their primary direct marketing channels, especially during the last 12 months where the economy has been going down the pan!
It is incredible how much junk mail we receive and if this site can help cut out a fraction of that then it's hopefully a step in the right direction. But the fact that one sender declined your opt-out is crazy - that surely has to break some kind of data protection law!
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