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Re: Incredible Universe

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From: Paul Andresen
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 15:26
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In article <q0oZwB1w165w@jaiser.rain.com>, jerryg@jaiser.rain.com (Jerry Gaiser) writes:
|> andrew@frip.WV.TEK.COM (Andrew Klossner) writes:
|> 
|> > Incredible Universe is controversial here because they won't let you in
|> > without a membership card, which they issue.  The application form
|> > requires you to give quite a bit of personal information.  You must use
|> > this card each time you make a purchase, so IU can keep a complete list
|> > of everything you've bought.  Speculation is that they turn this
|> > information into targeted marking lists.
|> 
|> And you can bet your money that they'll never see me there. I work too hard
|> to keep my personal information personal to put up with that kind of
|> marketing technique.

Amen, brother. I, too, refuse to set foot in the place for that very reason.
My only temptation to show would to be to see how much of a stink I can raise
when they won't let me in. 

Has anybody tried to force the issue with them? It might be great fun to 
create a scene in front of the place. 

--->Paul, Creative Anarchy R Us
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