Selling our information...

[kersley]

Dear friends.
Yesterday i went to my local Halfords to purchase a Hybrid bicycle to convert to an e bike .(electric battery powered bicycle) I selected the bike i wanted the young man checked it over to make sure all was OK with the bike. I made my way over to the paying desk. I was served by a young lady who asked for my name ,address , email, and telephone number. I politely told her i wasn't prepared to give out my information. I simply want to pay cash and ride this bike home.

She called the manager who insisted that i must give these information. He said it was my my guarantee. I told him i didn't need the guarantee because i was going to convert the bike to run on battery power, which would mean the guarantee is void anyway.
To end this story. they refused to sell the bike to someone paying the asking price in cash?

Why did they loose a sale because i refused to give out my information? why is it so important that they need my information? and if i did, what are they doing with my details?
In the pass i notice i would get calls or letters from other companies selling insurance, mobile phones etc ..
What's happened to the good old days when we paid cash and a solid hand shake to say i'm please with my purchase? The hand shake was all the trust we needed.

[Tony]

We are a money making corporation.

[Lord Sidious]

If anyone tells you that the warranty is void in case you don't fill in a card or something, that is not true.
There is the statutory warranty under the consumer laws, then there is the manufacturers warranty which is what isn't applicable without the card.
They have to honour the statutory warranty or they get into trouble.
If you know how to cane them, that is.

[kersley]

Thanks Sid.
I'll look into that..

[Limor Wolf]

Kersley,usually I would agree with you,we are wayyy being asked for our privet details wherever we go.if you would buy a milk you would not be required to give information,but if you want to buy a product wich suppose to provide you with guerntee in return,they do need your details.
now,you said that for your own reasons you dont need a guerntee,now this was too challenging for them! and required them to go out of the normal regular thinking procedure...naughty you .But I dont think that this is big brother in action,more like excessive sticking to the rules.

[Tarka the Duck]

I have just finished the laborious task of renewing our car insurance, with all that that entails...and every time I requested a quote, I KNEW they wanted my info to sell it on...and sometimes it is hard to find that little box that they are obliged to out in there, giving you the chance to 'opt out'. And when you DO find it, you have to read it so carefully to see whether you need to tick it to opt out or opt in, or untick it to opt out or opt in...:confused:
Let's see just how many unsolicited emails I get as a result of this, shall we?

Oh, and for those of us in the UK - and I am sure that most of you already know this, being the astute little beings that you all are - when you complete the Electoral Register, you do know to put that you DO NOT want your details to be added to the Edited Register, don't you? That edited register is the one they sell to companies for marketing purposes...

[kersley]

Sure i understand... But a simple receipt showing i paid cash at that store would be good enough surely?
Either my name is Kersley or Micheal Jackson, don't the same rule apply? Moreover, what's my email address and phone number got to do with it?
Best wishes k

[gooty64]

This sounds like this notion of "SHEEPLE" that is spreading across America. In your situation the store employees were not able to make a common sense decision on their own or basically to "think for themselves" because they were "zombie" like followers of the store or company/corporation policy.

This is a really "life draining" energy/frequency that is infecting our civilization. Just one example of what Eckhart Tolle describes as "collective mental illness" which has spread across the globe.

[Lord Sidious]

Sure i understand... But a simple receipt showing i paid cash at that store would be good enough surely?
Either my name is Kersley or Micheal Jackson, don't the same rule apply? Moreover, what's my email address and phone number got to do with it?
Best wishes k

It is called data mining.

[HORIZONS]

The way around this is to just use an old non-working email and phone number and then buy the item you want. The fox has to outsmart the hound. ;)

[RMorgan]

Oh man, just improvise and give them a fake name and numbers and walk away with your bike! I do it all the time!

[Forevernyt]

What kind of register did they have? Was it electronic? They may be using a program that doesn't allow them to finish a sale unless they get that information filled out. It may not have been their fault, but the fault of the company that owns the bike shop and or the company that runs their register program.

Still, to lose a sale over it is kind of ridiculous.

[ponda]

Dear friends.
Yesterday i went to my local Halfords to purchase a Hybrid bicycle to convert to an e bike .(electric battery powered bicycle) I selected the bike i wanted the young man checked it over to make sure all was OK with the bike. I made my way over to the paying desk. I was served by a young lady who asked for my name ,address , email, and telephone number. I politely told her i wasn't prepared to give out my information. I simply want to pay cash and ride this bike home.

She called the manager who insisted that i must give these information. He said it was my my guarantee. I told him i didn't need the guarantee because i was going to convert the bike to run on battery power, which would mean the guarantee is void anyway.
To end this story. they refused to sell the bike to someone paying the asking price in cash?

Why did they loose a sale because i refused to give out my information? why is it so important that they need my information? and if i did, what are they doing with my details?
In the pass i notice i would get calls or letters from other companies selling insurance, mobile phones etc ..
What's happened to the good old days when we paid cash and a solid hand shake to say i'm please with my purchase? The hand shake was all the trust we needed.

It might be a type of economic conditioning.If you work for someone or something then if you want to keep your job then you have to obey the rules however ridiculous they are.The average person likes to do the right thing and if it means getting personal info for a sale then that's what they do OR it's out the door and someone else will come and do it.It all comes back to the laws and regulations that are brought in without our consent.

It's all a part of the manifestation and conditioning of the control system.Obey obey blah blah blah.....no matter how stupid it is.The thing is is that it can't last.People will wake up to it...but they first have to realize that it's wrong