Cross Sales Are Everywhere

kath · 02-26-2003

That happened to me over the holidays - was ordering gifts for my nieces and it popped up like that offering me Time, Newsweek, etc. - must be some program with the magazines and everyone is doing it. I must say I was shocked to see my cc info already in the form. I don't mind a little cross marketing, but a that was way BEYOND where they should have gone IMHO.

It didn't make sense to me how they could do it - if it doesn't make sense to you then I'm sure something is wrong here...hopefully they'll get busted for it but geez a headline like "1800Flowers gets busted for foul cross sales tactics" doesn't read as interesting as "Porn site gets busted for legal content" - I mean, which paper would you buy? Which would Joe Public buy?

Now if they were cross selling Hustler or Playboy....mayyyyyybeeeee.....

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02-26-2003	#1
kath Members Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: California, USA Posts: 1,340	That happened to me over the holidays - was ordering gifts for my nieces and it popped up like that offering me Time, Newsweek, etc. - must be some program with the magazines and everyone is doing it. I must say I was shocked to see my cc info already in the form. I don't mind a little cross marketing, but a that was way BEYOND where they should have gone IMHO. It didn't make sense to me how they could do it - if it doesn't make sense to you then I'm sure something is wrong here...hopefully they'll get busted for it but geez a headline like "1800Flowers gets busted for foul cross sales tactics" doesn't read as interesting as "Porn site gets busted for legal content" - I mean, which paper would you buy? Which would Joe Public buy? Now if they were cross selling Hustler or Playboy....mayyyyyybeeeee.....