Quoted from Dent00:This whole conversation leads me to a personal gripe I have with some stores... Lowes, Ace Hardware and many others, ask me for my phone number when I want to check out. If you refuse to give them your phone number, they don't want to give you any discounts or whatever that are linked to my past purchases. However, that phone number is linked directly to junk mail and other spam, which is where I get upset. I should not have to provide my phone number to make a purchase in a store in cash or with a debit card... It should be illegal to ask for this type of information, in my opinion.
I refuse as well.
But you could also set up a Google voice number for when you dont want to give out your real number.
Quoted from ralphwiggum:Does anyone else get sales offers from Jersey Jack, PinballStar and Pinstadium via email? I have never been a customer of any of them, and yet they magically have my email address and have been sending me offers the last couple of months. The only common denominator is they all have a banner advertising ads on Pinside.
Not that big of a deal, more curious than anything. (I have already flagged them as spam)
I typically use a burner email account for random internet stuff, didn't even think to use a burner for Pinside.
If you've ever emailed a distributor or a manufacturer, that may have gotten you added to their mailing lists.
The privacy of Pinside member info is taken pretty seriously. robin would probably have to speak to it, but as far as I'm aware, no information is shared with anyone. The only situation I can think of where someone's information might be shared would be to comply with a legal court order.
