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JSGeare
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JSGeare asked in Computers & InternetInternetOther - Internet · 1 decade ago

Selling email lists?

I WARN people about protecting their email address from "harvesting," so that unscrupulous folks don't sell their address to a company that sends out spam. However, I can find no listing on Google or through Live Search for email list BUYERS.

And so -even though I (or anyone) may have a few thousand email addresses for sale- there appear to be NO buyers. But that obviously can't be true. Someone, somewhere, is buying them.

I have recently been challenged to produce the name of just one company who actually buys "harvested" emails. And I can't find even one.

Can YOU? Can anyone?

Thanks!

PS: By the way, if you are tempted to flame me for a thinly veiled attempt to actually sell some addresses, you would do well to read my answers and see if that really makes any sense.

Update:

In response: Albeit that the big emailers buy from big harvesters (as named) WHERE is their offer to do so?

Illegal? Show me where it is illegal to sell addresses, phones, emails. It may be illegal to say you will NOT do so -and then do it- that would be fraud. Otherwise, I don't see why it would be "illegal."

And as to data: I know a lot about my email contacts: age, sex, marital, home ownership, children, location, employmenmt, apprx income, what they buy on-line. Why shouldn't my list be as good as anyone else's?

Reminder: I don't want to actually sell anything; I want to justify the claim that emails appearing as part of forwards end up in the hands of harvesters. (which is why forwarded material should be sent via BCC and not just copied). How do the harvesters capture that stuff? Not with cookies.

Thanks!

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  • gilfinn
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago
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    The e-mail buyers you are looking for are not going to buy them from you. They will buy them from professional harvesters like clickbank, doubleclick, and others that place those wonderful little cookies into your browser history. From them, they get all that targeted e-mail addresses already sorted, in the database that will automatically send targeted e-mail, etc, etc., etc.

    And to top it off, have you read the privacy policy of Google, and Yahoo... They are two of the top information harvesters that you would have to compete with.

  • Mr. Desmond
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    well..there are list brokers...also some companies manage,lease and sell their own lists. why do you think there are some pointless competitions where all you have to do is to enter your adress and some info on ur self inorder to enter a draw to win a car...its a way of collecting addresses.

    Just plain list of emails is not worth much without info of the user

  • Nasha
    1 decade ago

    You shouldnt be able to find evidence, as the act is illegal.

    The companies that are doing it are the ones hosting spyware infested websites

  • ?
    6 years ago

    you may purchase from http://www.databaselead.com/

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