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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;farthing, post: 857895, member: 3444&quot;]As I said it is quite likely that the ebay seller is not selling your name.</p><p><br /></p><p>If they are large enough to produce and mail a catalog they are likely using a catalog marketing company to handle the creating of the mailing list (my son works for such a marketing company).&nbsp; The seller pays the company to create a mailing list of people that are likely to be interested in his catalog.&nbsp; As part of the process he would provide the marketing company with his own current customer mailing list as his current customer base would likely be interested in the catalog.</p><p><br /></p><p>Once the marketing company has your name/address in the database it becomes available to other vendors that are looking for a mailing list of people that might be interested in their similar items.</p><p><br /></p><p>The sorted mailing list would then be provided, most likely to the printing company, to handle the actual mailing of the catalog based on the actual postal rules for the mail permit type the ebay seller provides.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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