Cabelas Brochure

[jaydee325]

Got one yesterday covering their tractors and hunting. Anyone else get one in snail mail?

I bought a tractor in the last year and thought, who sold my address? Then saw it was addressed to my wife! She bought me an amo box for Christmas that I turned into a tractor tool box! We've not done any other business with them. I'm amazed at the data companies can gather.

 

[oosik]

Amazing is one way to express it - - I was more inclined to say frightening.

 

[reb]

Cabela's has a very busy advertising department. I read somewhere a few years ago that the send out several million catalogs a year. I don't recall the exact number. I divided that number by the number of catalogs I got and estimated they must have about 347 other regular customers.

 

[Danno1]

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Read the paragraph labelled "Business":

Data mining - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Also:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/14/business/yourmoney/14wal.html?_r=1&




Even worse:

How Target Knew a High School Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Parents Did | TIME.com



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[Danno1]

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Sorry, this is the "Even worse" article I was looking for above:


http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits.html?_r=0



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[Code54]

Cabela's has a very busy advertising department. I read somewhere a few years ago that the send out several million catalogs a year. I don't recall the exact number. I divided that number by the number of catalogs I got and estimated they must have about 347 other regular customers.

Hey REB - 346 now, Im one of those customers like you!
Love the store but they are not the cheapest place but the selection is great.

 

[reb]

Definitely not the cheapest, but the quality is generally top notch.