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Woodcraft is offering free access to the Guild’s premium content with orders, and we provide a unique offer code upon checkout. Woodcraft does not give or sell email addresses to Woodworkers Guild of America. (Update: Woodcraft does provide mailing lists to 3rd party companies, just not WWGOA directly.) Response from Woodcraft: Even if Woodcraft is not selling such a list to WWGOA directly, it is possible that such a list changes hands one or more times through 3rd party buyers and marketing companies. It seems most plausible that companies are drawing up mailing lists based on printed catalog signups. Update: It now seems likely that Woodcraft, Rockler, and/or another company sells names and addresses to an intermediate company who then sold the contact information to the Woodworkers Guild of America. But if they don’t want me or others associating them with deceptive, junky, and spammy unsolicited Woodworkers Guild of America mailings, then they shouldn’t affiliate themselves with the company and their practices. It might be that Woodcraft is not the company that sold my private information to the Woodworkers Guild of America. They’re also the only retailer who has my personal contact information that has a visible connection to and affiliation with the Woodworkers Guild of America. Right now, I *believe* Woodcraft could still be the company who sold my personal contact information to the Woodworkers Guild of America, or a 3rd party intermediate marketing company.
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(Update: Even if they did not sell my contact information to the WWGOA directly, I am not yet convinced that they did not sell it to a 3rd party company that in turn sold/supplied it to WWGOA.) I hope Woodcraft received a lot of money from the Woodworkers Guild of America for my personal information, because they’re not going to see another penny from me for a long, long time. (Update: Woodcraft denies having supplied WWGOA with customers’ addresses, but would not offer respond as to whether they are selling mailing lists to intermediate partners.) So thank you Woodcraft, for selling my personal contact information to the horribly deceptive junk-mailing useless company known as the Woodworkers Guild of America. That doesn’t mean they won’t still sell your mailing address, see below for details.)
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(Update: Woodcraft says that the WWGOA subscription, via email, is opt-in only, with customers having to supply WWGOA with a special code. A similar message appears in the shopping cart.Īnd there doesn’t seem to be any way to opt-out from the membership. While writing up today’s post about Woodcraft’s Forstner drill bit sale, I noticed that a free 2-month membership to the Woodworkers Guild of America is included with every purchase. I have ordered from all three stores, and all three have my contact information for catalog mailings. In my case, the suspects are: Rockler, Lee Valley, and Woodcraft. There are plenty of woodworking forum posts that start off with “I didn’t register with the Woodworkers Guild of America, and I didn’t request this DVD, so how the heck did they get my address and personal information?!” Woodworking retailers and suppliers are the first to come to mind. I don’t have any woodworking magazine subscriptions, which means they must have purchased or acquired my contact information from another source.
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The Woodworkers Guild of America probably knows this, which is why they offer two options – that recipients return the DVD (with postage required) or pay for the DVD and a subscription for additional videos. A lot of woodworkers probably discarded the DVD right away as I did. This is how the Woodworkers Guild of America works – they send junk mail and then use deceptive marketing tactics to force subscriptions onto woodworkers. I expect to receive a third mailing requesting that I either return the DVD or pay up to the amount of $12-15 or so. Only in small print somewhere, possibly with the first mailing, it says that the video was sent without request and can be consider a free gift or discarded. In large print, the Woodworking Guild mailings urge that I furnish payment for the DVD and continued subscription perks, or return the DVD. The supplied envelope is not postage-paid, and requires a stamp. Then, a few weeks later, the Guild sent over another mailing saying that I should return the DVD in a postage-paid envelope or pay up some cash for the DVD and additional video selections. The spammy and deceptive mailings were the same and again started off with the Woodworkers Guild of America sending over an unsolicited DVD.