[PublicAnimalNo9]

BeaverFever BeaverFever:

I guess I just don't have the confidence that
a) any such proviso would be accpeted by the insurer or
b)even if the proviso was accepted, that it would be honoured. After all, its not as if the junk mail tells you where the mailer got your info.

Well, it's worked for me. I have a private, unlisted number and I don't get any phone solicitations. The only junk mail I get is the usual crap that everyone gets.
Then again, I've been like that with my information since the old Radio Shack days when they'd ask you almost everything about you just cuz you bought some batteries and a length of co-axial cable.
If they don't need to know it, I ain't gonna give it up. If it's a necessity, I'm gonna make sure it's done by my rules. If they don't like my rules, there are MANY others that won't have an issue with it.

Funnily enough, when you said you haven't seen any ad campaigns like; "come to Allstate, where we don't give your info to private investigators who spy on you", while it wasn't an ad campaign, when I signed up with Gore Mutual when I lived in Cambridge, one of the things they assured me of was they wouldn't be sharing, selling or trading my personal info with anybody. And that was before I mentioned anything about a proviso.
One other thing about ad campaigns though. You'd be amazed what they don't advertise. Out of the 8 or so insurance companies I've dealt with over the years, Gore Mutual was the ONLY one that mailed out taxi vouchers to their clients for the Christmas Holiday. Yet strangely enough, they never advertised this awesome idea.

[BeaverFever]

$1:

Gore Mutual was the ONLY one that mailed out taxi vouchers to their clients for the Christmas Holiday. Yet strangely enough, they never advertised this awesome idea.

That IS a really good idea, Im surprised most auto insurers don't do that, if for no other reason than to minimize accident claims during a high-accident season.

[raydan]

PublicAnimalNo9 PublicAnimalNo9:

Well, nice post but you neglected one thing. One doesn't require encyclopedic knoweldge to understand that identity theft and the trade of personal information among companies is rampant. If yer too busy to take a few minutes to make sure a proviso is added to any contract to protect your personal information, then don't complain when yer inundated with junk mail and phone solicitations.

My GF and I have a fixed amount taken from our pay each week that goes to charity, so normally we don't give anything else except maybe to throw some money into pots during special collections.
Then one day, my GF sent a check to a hospital charity.
A couple of weeks later, we started getting letters from other charities by the bucketfull where we'd never received one before.
Then we starting getting phone calls.

Easy to figure out that they sell their lists.

[PublicAnimalNo9]

BeaverFever BeaverFever:

$1:

Gore Mutual was the ONLY one that mailed out taxi vouchers to their clients for the Christmas Holiday. Yet strangely enough, they never advertised this awesome idea.

That IS a really good idea, Im surprised most auto insurers don't do that, if for no other reason than to minimize accident claims during a high-accident season.

No doubt eh? That's my thinking exactly. It might cost them a few million each but the potential savings in both money AND lives would far outstrip what they spent.

As a side note, Gore Mutual is Canada's oldest property and casualty insurer and has been in business since 1839. No surprise with innovative thinking like that.

[PublicAnimalNo9]

raydan raydan:

PublicAnimalNo9 PublicAnimalNo9:

Well, nice post but you neglected one thing. One doesn't require encyclopedic knoweldge to understand that identity theft and the trade of personal information among companies is rampant. If yer too busy to take a few minutes to make sure a proviso is added to any contract to protect your personal information, then don't complain when yer inundated with junk mail and phone solicitations.

My GF and I have a fixed amount taken from our pay each week that goes to charity, so normally we don't give anything else except maybe to throw some money into pots during special collections.
Then one day, my GF sent a check to a hospital charity.
A couple of weeks later, we started getting letters from other charities by the bucketfull where we'd never received one before.
Then we starting getting phone calls.

Easy to figure out that they sell their lists.

Wow, that's messed up. Almost makes ya not wanna donate to charity.