This seems to have been corrected--for now. But this is just another example of Sears' invading their customers' privacy.
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."
I never volunteered to be listed, yet I am on the list (not that I object, however).
Don’t worry, we already know you wear Huskies
I’d be more concerned if they could see my purchases from Rugar, Smith and Wesson, Colt, Armalite, etc.
I swore that I would never enter another Sears store as long as I live.
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I am not too thrilled with Sears any more myself. Maybe you should have done what I did years ago at Radio Shack. I had bought an answering machine (the old kind with cassette tapes) and it worked intermittently. Of course it usually failed to work when I had a really important call and it failed to take the message. I took it in once and explained my problem and the store manager tried it out and when it worked normally he gave it back to me with a real crappy attitude and told me it was working. I explained again that the problem was intermittent but he didn’t listen. I took it back to my office and two weeks or so later the same thing happened. I went and bought a new digital answering machine that had just come on the market and walked down the mall to Radio Shack. I am about six feet and four inches barefoot and two hundred and sixty pounds, I made sure the store was full of people and walked up to the counter and laid the machine down on the counter and then told the manager in a voice loud enough to hear a hundred yards away that that piece of junk was the reason I would never buy anything from Radio Shack again. I felt better after seeing every head in the place turn and listen to me with an awestruck expression.
Not as nearly much time wasted as trying to go 12 blocks cross town at rush hour. ;~))
No. No I really don't. And nobody else wants to either. Or could possibly care.
LOL. Actually, I did. They called security because I was too loud for them.
I guess I don’t have to worry, because I haven’t bought anything from Sears since 1963, when they sold me a lemon of a lawnmower and wouldn’t honor the warranty.
Just to be clear, this is a separate issue from the spyware problem of a few days ago. I don’t believe Sears has discussed this latest issue yet.
***You apparently also have to volunteer to be listed. I’m a monthly, and don’t seem to be on the list.***
You are not alone. They forgot about me.
Actually, you bought that on sale for $129.95 on June 5, 2001 with your Sears credit card.
That’s a different Sears privacy disaster. They also have a “social network” that installs software that tracks and reports everything you do online, including reporting banking transactions.
This seems to have been corrected--for now. But this is just another example of Sears' invading their customers' privacy.
As Scott McNeally former CEO of Sun said years ago “”You have no privacy, get over it.”
The only things one can hide are small individual items, and that takes lots of extra effort.
Did anyone look up 15 Old House Lane, Chappaqua, N.Y. 10514-2717? Or 3067 Whitehaven St. NW, Washington, DC 20008-3613?
And, the list doesn’t contain the name of every donor.
• One gross of ashtrays
• One carpetbag
• Three 55 gallon drums of teflon
• One crusty pantsuit
Aw shucks. You ain’t gotta drive 29 miles to git a gingham dress. Just make ‘em outta the flour sacks when they’re empty. Real purty duds, them flour sacks.
Hmph. Hi falutin’ city folk.
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