How did Heritage get my new address??!!??

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• hockeyfan9 Posts: 457

  April 24, 2007 1:54PM

  I think the ANA does do that, but it is more likely they got it from the post office. I bought something at a big and tall shop in Denver 15 years ago and I still get an ad from them twice a year, 4 houses later!

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• droopyd Posts: 5,381 ✭✭✭

  April 24, 2007 2:07PM

  Zey haff vayz....

  Me at the Springfield coin show:
  
  60 years into this hobby and I'm still working on my Lincoln set!

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• tightbudget Posts: 7,299 ✭✭✭

  April 24, 2007 2:17PM

  They're psychic.

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• CoinOnTheCob Posts: 712

  April 24, 2007 2:34PM

  If it says on the envelope, “Forwarding Address Requested” or some such thing, then Heritage is paying about 50¢ to the post office for the information.

  

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• garsmith Posts: 5,894 ✭✭

  April 24, 2007 4:59PM

  It's possible they got it from your credit card, if you have one listed with them! Otherwise they probably got it from your forwarding adress at the post office!
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Realy they have they little people that follow us around wherever we go and report whenever we have extra money to spend on coins! Check those bushes outside your house carefully
  
  Last year they lost track of me when I went to Macau for 6 months, so they started calling my house to find out why I wasn't bidding in thier auctions anymore (true story)!

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• Coxe Posts: 11,139 ✭

  April 24, 2007 9:05PM

  An amusing thought of Steve Ivy stalking us all.....

  Select Rarities -- DMPLs and VAMs
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• RYK Posts: 35,800 ✭✭✭✭✭

  April 24, 2007 9:49PM

  Heritage sees all and knows all!

  My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132

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• mikeJ Posts: 99

  April 24, 2007 10:32PM

  Welcome to H-town Joefro !

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• Longacre Posts: 16,717 ✭✭✭

  April 24, 2007 10:38PM

  Heritage has an all-seeing eye. They know more about you than you think.

  Always took candy from strangers
  Didn't wanna get me no trade
  Never want to be like papa
  Working for the boss every night and day
  --"Happy", by the Rolling Stones (1972)

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• Veep Posts: 1,456 ✭✭✭✭

  April 24, 2007 10:50PM

  I wouldn't necessarily blame the ANA for this one. Direct mail companies have data bases that are continually updated so that marketers don't lose track of whom they have identified as customers or prospects. Heritage and zillions of other direct marketers pay serious money to direct mail services for the info that lets them stay in touch with their roving customer base.

  "Let me tell ya Bud, you can buy junk anytime!"

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• CaptHenway Posts: 32,768 ✭✭✭✭✭

  April 25, 2007 12:49AM

  
  
  << <i>So I moved to Houston just a couple of weeks ago. I haven't even had a chance to update my mailing address for most things. In fact, all I've changed is my cell phone bill, credit card bill and I sent in the change of address thing on the cover of the Numismatist. Today I get a Heritage Auction catalog in the mailbox here in Houston. The only thing I can figure is that they got my new address through the ANA. Does ANA give out your address to coin auction companies? >>
  
  
  
  One of our staff still gets his Numismatist under a long-obsolete business name at a P.O. Box. He doesn't get anything else under that name. He recently received an offering for a numismatic book to the exact same business name, including abbreviations.
  
  I can only conclude that the ANA is selling its mailing list, or more likely for security reasons using its mailing service to apply mailing labels to packets supplied to it by numismatic bulk mailers.
  TD

  Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.

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