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Tracking items I've viewed on QVC website

cactuschic — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 23:32:50 GMT

Does it bother anyone else when you get an email from QVC asking if you forgot about an item you were viewing? I find it incredibly creepy and invasive that someone is watching what I look at and whether or not I choose to purchase it. I contacted QVC about it once before and it seemed to stop, but it appears with the new year it is starting again. This latest was about an item that I had in fact purchased, but went back a day later to look at one of the details of the item. Today I receive an "OOPS did you forget this item?"

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Mombo1 — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 23:38:37 GMT

@cactuschic wrote:
Does it bother anyone else when you get an email from QVC asking if you forgot about an item you were viewing? I find it incredibly creepy and invasive that someone is watching what I look at and whether or not I choose to purchase it. I contacted QVC about it once before and it seemed to stop, but it appears with the new year it is starting again. This latest was about an item that I had in fact purchased, but went back a day later to look at one of the details of the item. Today I receive an "OOPS did you forget this item?"

@cactuschic I get those emails as well...and I really don't like it at all. Feels like Big Brother is watching.

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GCR18 — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 23:41:36 GMT

I review my personal emails by subject. Anything I have no interest in is deleted, then I read what's left. So the oops emails usually don't make it to the read part.

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kaydee50 — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 23:56:05 GMT

@cactuschic Big brother IS watching! I get those emails from QVC also along with any cruises, airlines or hotels I may have been investigating for a potential vacation. Within minutes of my being on their website, I'll get a popup or an email about it. It is truly scary. How do they know I've been on their website and what I've been looking at? Life in the 21st century, I guess!

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blackhole99 — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 00:10:17 GMT

Quite a few websites do that, if you give them your email you are going to hear from them.

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Kachina624 — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 00:26:05 GMT

Every online site where I shop does exactly what the OP has described. It's part of shopping online and not in the least creepy unless you have a vivid imagination.

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ItsME — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 00:27:35 GMT

I hate the invasion of privacy. If I want something ,I will buy it. If you push me, I'll walk away. Get out of my inbox!

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depglass — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 00:42:12 GMT

These are all just anonymous computer programs, absolutely no human is involved. No one is spying on you.

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MezzieStarr — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 01:59:31 GMT

Internet "cookies" have been keeping track of what you do since the 1990's.

Since the first day you entered the "World Wide Web" you've been "watched".

Sweet dreams.

Seriously, QVC has always known what you've been viewing. They have just decided to use it in their marketing to try and make a sale.

They gotta make that money somehow. By any means possible.

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AuntG — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 02:51:44 GMT

A lot of places do that and I don't like it. Some ask you to 'Please Come Back' when I wish they'd go away.

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hippiechick7897 — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 03:30:17 GMT

It’s not just QVCs site. Everything you do on the internet is tracked in way or another.

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Foxxee — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 03:53:41 GMT

Other retailers do this, too. I get a few after I have been looking at something of interest.

No, it doesn't bother me. All are trying to survive.

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Venezia — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 04:10:25 GMT

It surprises me that there's anyone who isn't aware of everything we do online being tracked. Companies even know whether you've opened an email they sent you or if you simply deleted it unopened. I've had emails asking why I hadn't been reading certain emails. There are tracking cookies in everything and, if you want to avoid them, get off the internet.

One thing that made me laugh in the past week is that a friend an I had discussed the possiblility of taking a trip on a Canadian train this summer. We mentioned it in emails (Yahoo) and during a Skype session. Next thing I knew, ads were popping up on the right side of my screen for Canadian train vacations!

Yes, Big Brother is well and truly watching (and listening). I hope I'm doing my bit to entertain "him".

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SandySparkles — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 06:04:41 GMT

@cactuschic Most companies have amended their privacy and marketing policies, that allows for specific exchange of information regarding cross-site customer browsing history, and purchases amongst marketing "partners"- including email addresses. Some sites make it easy to opt-out, but some do not🙁

~~~All we need is LOVE💖

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Anonymous032819 — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 10:25:22 GMT

It doesn't bother me in the least.

"Creepy"?

Naw.

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Imaoldhippie — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 12:21:56 GMT

The Q is retail and their job is selling. They are not the only ones that do it.

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jlrbr — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 13:56:07 GMT

I can walk in B&BW and walk out with a handful of emails just by walking in the store. It's common now.