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Why nobody ever wins the car at the mall (2018)

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Re: Why nobody ever wins the car at the mall (2018)

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People complain that Safari is a terrible web citizen. Here I go to this website, with Safari and my trusty ad blocker extension, and the page keeps reloading endlessly. Who’s to blame? The crappy website, Safari, or its extension?

Well,loading the page on Safari Mac with 1Blocker has no problems at all.

Re: Why nobody ever wins the car at the mall (2018)

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I wonder how much money these scams net. Even if this outfit is fully owned and operated by a scuzzy timeshare company, do they really make enough money to justify the $1500/~=22 marks? The article only mentions people being contacted by the timeshare company, but I wonder if they might sell the info as a secondary revenue stream, especially given the waiver which claims to override federal do-not-call lists. How muc…

> How much would one packet of contact info+metadata sell for, if the subject has signed on to be contacted by advertisers? LendingTree.com was charging $70 per "lead", this was 2018 or so, not sure how prices have changed since then. However this was on the high end, zillow.com, also sold leads but for quite a bit lower (although you got what you paid for).

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Re: Why nobody ever wins the car at the mall (2018)

#23
There are other equally shady fronts for this activity. I made the mistake of giving my name and number a person running one of those "raffles" at an NHL arena. I was deluged with time share spam calls for weeks afterwards. I should've known better as the team owner made his money marketing for AOL.

Re: Why nobody ever wins the car at the mall (2018)

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People complain that Safari is a terrible web citizen. Here I go to this website, with Safari and my trusty ad blocker extension, and the page keeps reloading endlessly. Who’s to blame? The crappy website, Safari, or its extension?

page keeps reloading likely means the webpage is crashing, which is Safari’s fault

Re: Why nobody ever wins the car at the mall (2018)

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I wonder how much money these scams net. Even if this outfit is fully owned and operated by a scuzzy timeshare company, do they really make enough money to justify the $1500/~=22 marks? The article only mentions people being contacted by the timeshare company, but I wonder if they might sell the info as a secondary revenue stream, especially given the waiver which claims to override federal do-not-call lists. How muc…

The 22 marks was in an hour and the $1.5k was rental for a whole day.

Oh, I misread. Sounds like a good scam, if aninteger's $70/lead number is accurate.

Re: Why nobody ever wins the car at the mall (2018)

#27

People complain that Safari is a terrible web citizen. Here I go to this website, with Safari and my trusty ad blocker extension, and the page keeps reloading endlessly. Who’s to blame? The crappy website, Safari, or its extension?

No problem with Safari Version 15.5 (16613.2.7.1.9, 16613)

Re: Why nobody ever wins the car at the mall (2018)

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post #3

“I understand my permission herein overrides my listing on any state of(sic) federal do not call list and any prior listing on the do not call lists of the companies listed above.” That’s disturbing. There is no way that’s possibly legally binding? Surely there can’t be a loophole this ridiculous in the Do Not Call law?

The general rule of thumb is that consent to be called overrides the Do-Not-Call stuff. Although, that said, you also have to be able to later withdraw that consent, I believe (I know this is true as far as anti-spam laws go, but I'm not specifically familiar with the telephony rules).

Re: Why nobody ever wins the car at the mall (2018)

#29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Whoopsie you said yes once upon a time, looks like you've irrevocably consented to any and all futures interactions!

If there is no way to decline after viewing the terms, then it is not legal. It would be considered a contract of adhesion.

Problem is that you can decline after but if they've sold your data, now you have to chase down everyone in the chain afterwards.
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