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Targeted Auction House Web Ads
Surfing along the www during this past year I have been receiving targeted advertising for Heritage initially and just lately Love Of The Game. The only way these would be connected is through my email address: Heritage for whoring my email address in exchange for the Luckey Collection Catalogue (good swap!) and LOTG (Hi Al), as I consigned some cards during their golden years before becoming the industry dynamo they are today (receive their Cat also, another good swap).
I get these ads in some of the most unrelated sites imaginable...and I like it! ( although I can already get this info in my daily Net54 fix). Much better than the sponsored "You Won't Believe What They Look Like Today!" crapola. Hopefully this will be the ad-wave of the future - I could learn to live with it. Thoughts (even sarcasm and all that) welcome. Last edited by Paul S; 09-15-2017 at 06:14 PM. |
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I get them from Heritage. They got my address because I pointed out a serious problem in one of their auctions. To their credit they almost instantly fixed the problem.
I lost my eBay account several years ago because of inactivity, I forgot my password. Then changed email providers and forgot my questions answers also. So for the last several years I have just been using my wifes account. I used that account to inform Sean Bassik(SP?) that he had an error in a listing. To his credit also he fixed the problem. Somehow he ended up with my wifes email and sent her several emails advertising his business. After a PM to Sean he fixed that also. I do wish I would have gotten the Heritage catalog with Loen's collection. Did buy one of my favorite cards from him directly when I noticed he did not send it to HA for that auction. |
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For the last several years I have done almost all my hobby biz through our BST. When I begin to get targeted ads for Net54, THEN I will be Mr. Bigshot for sure.,,,and Leon (Hi Leon) will thank me handsomely.
Last edited by Paul S; 09-15-2017 at 06:45 PM. |
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They are called cookies and are based upon your browsing history.
Similar to a grocery card where they send you coupons based upon what you buy or what would compliment what you buy. Watching, always watching. |
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Most times, after I visit a site, I will clear my browsing history/data plus I'll do a Ccleaner run. Doing both things clears all history. With these Heritage ads, which I get on Facebook as well, there is something else going on, like a 3rd party or whatever who has purchased this browsing history. How did they get my FB info, or having it popup when I browse CBC news and others?
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(Unless you actually DO clear all your cookies upon cleanup. Then forget everything I just said ) Last edited by Paul S; 09-15-2017 at 10:04 PM. |
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When I use Ccleaner, which is quite often, it clears everything, including history and cookies. Whatever is going on, either happens before those security/cleaner things are used, or, like I am thinking, our info is being shared/purchased/used by a 3rd party or something like that? Seems other things are going on lately as well. http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=244964 I just went into Facebook again, and there was an E-Bay add showing all the previous cards I had looked at last night?? I have never seen E-Bay on FB before and I have never used E-Bay while on FB? I have also noticed lately, which I am getting tired of, is the amount of advertising that is popping up on FB! I can't even watch a vid a friend has posted without it stopping part way through to show an advertisement/ad. It won't let you skip it or fast forward it, it forces you to watch it if you want to see the rest of your friends vid. Imo, things are getting worse as far as privacy goes. Just when you think our personal info is somewhat safe, we see things like this which only leaves me to believe things are a lot worse than originally thought and as far as privacy goes, we have zilch while on the internet.
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There is a plethora of ways to identify you without cookies. Just the state of the Internet today.
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Curious, do you guys state side also receive spam/harassing phone calls? About once a week we receive a call about getting our ducts cleaned. Another one is someone stating they are from Computer Central telling us our computer has been hacked. It's clear to me our phone number is out there as a possible target so they keep on trying.
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I had the "IRS" call tier 3 IT support at a Fortune 500 company just last week.
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You sure it wasn't Equifax asking for advice?
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Nearly 40 year employee on his last week before retirement relished in keeping one of these scammers on the line for a good two hours.
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There are some funny vids on Youtube where other's, like us, also have some fun with them. I particularly like this one from Tom Mabe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7OgWcwgB50 I suppose, like dealing with less than desirable collector card sellers/dealers, these scams will continue as honest people get sucked in quite often which keeps these people in business, sadly. $9,000 lost, alone was mentioned in this vid. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkpY-qr2zJY
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Have been getting a few targeted advertising ads from Goldin this week. I've only ever gone to their site to take a peek now and then, never given them any personal info. Not that it's a big deal to me, just curious. Can they obtain this from my IP/ISP address?
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A lot of the ads are run by google. I browse sites, and the ads show up on other sites and on FB and even on my phone and tablet, which I've never used to look at those sites.
It's a bit spooky but cool all at once. The fake Microsoft guys are loads of fun. "your computer is infested with virus" "which one?" "Your computer" "Umm.. right, which one" "Your windows 7 or 8 or 10 computer" "Well that narrows it down! which one?" "Your windows computer" "Hey, have you ever heard of Who's on first?" "No, and your computer is infested, it's wery serious!" "Ok then, which one?" Had one guy for 20 minutes before I told him he was too stupid to help and had no idea what he was doing. Then his supervisor came on and called me a M-F-er. I said something appropriately colorful about exactly what his liked and got sworn at in some Indian dialect for a while. Whish I could have taped that one |
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I wish the MS-styole phonies would call me! Seems much more fun than targeted ads. I'd refer them to the auction house of my choice
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