That doesn’t mean they won’t still sell your mailing address, see below for details.) (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.
WOODWORKERS GUILD OF AMERICA REVIEWS FREE
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. 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.
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