Hmmm, marital aids...
Posted on 01/04/2008 12:28:58 PM PST by NinoFan
Want to see all the major appliances and repair services that your friends and neighbors... (and anyone else who you can look up in the phone book) have ever purchased at Sears?
Want to know what your mom might have purchased for your birthday? Want to know which houses in your neighborhood have really nice expensive TVs?
Sears provides a website, www.ManageMyHome.com where anyone can look up anyone elses' entire purchase history at Sears—using only their name and address. This is especially convenient because these strange men keep dropping off huge lists of names and addresses on our door every year (we think they're called "phone books") and we never really knew what to do with them.
Apparently, all you need to do is create an account at www.managemyhome.com, click "Find Sears Products" and enter a name, address and phone number.
From the CA Security Advisor Research Blog:
With their consent we have tested this technique with other individuals and have received reliable results every time. If they'd had major dealings with Sears, that information is now available to the public, from a television bought in 1978 to a stove which was purchased elsewhere but had been repaired by a Sears technician.
Says Kurt, the reader who sent this tip in: "I was able to look up my entire family's purchases. This is a scary one."
Burglars will have a easier time finding the stuff they want. Isn’t the Internet wonnerful?..............
Anyone who honestly thinks they have an ounce of privacy today is flat out dillusional.
Thanks to computers and credit cards, there is NOTHING that you do that someone doesn’t know about. In fact they only way to stay below the radar is to live a life so utterly determined to, that it will become an obsession.
Sears has apparently taken that part of the site down.
Oh, $%#$, my $100 Sears microwave is in danger.
Let's hope so.
You can also review every battery ever purchased at Radio Shack with just a phone number.
The ChiComs know the brand of my propane grill!!
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Great, I don’t have to leave that ol’ Kenmore on the porch anymore.
Hmmm, marital aids...
“Living in rural areas is a joke.” “Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It’s sterile. It’s numb. It’s wasting your life and wasting time in a pickup truck when you have to drive 20 miles to buy a gingham dress or a Sears Roebuck suit."
Ed Koch while running for Governor of NY in the late eighties.
Not surprising. I imagine the phone call the offending members of Sears management received from their legal department (which probably learned about this right after the public did) was largely unprintable.
We don’t have to worry. Years ago we would buy most anything at Sears. A couple years ago I wanted a lifetime guarentee automobile product replaced because it had failed. They did not believe me when I said it had failed and refused to do the replacement. I had it checked elsewhere and they confirmed it was totally disfunctional. I swore that I would never enter another Sears store as long as I live.
Newsflash to stainlessbanner: That list contains screen names only. Unless someone has chosen their real name as their screen name, they have nothing to worry about.
Ed Koch while running for Governor of NY in the late eighties.
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This sounds like some of the garbage I have heard from people (like Koch) who have grown up in the big city and seem never to have set foot outside it, at least they display no inkling of what life is actually like outside the city. I once read an article by some clown who said that you can easily determine what is a true necessity by whether it is advertised, he went on to say that a car was obviously not a necessity or there would not be the need to advertise them! In much of this country a car or vehicle of some sort is a necessity in the same way a horse was a necessity 200 years ago. Of course the person who wrote this had probably never seen an actual horse unless it was ridden by a policeman in Central Park.
It’s a wonder that Sears sells any appliances at all. Their customer service is really, really bad.
You apparently also have to volunteer to be listed. I'm a monthly, and don't seem to be on the list.
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