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Of my list, which I'm still parsing, I'm seeing a TON of local car dealerships and realtors. What I really wish is I could see the supplier that's selling my da

Of my list, which I'm still parsing, I'm seeing a TON of local car dealerships and realtors. What I really wish is I could see the supplier that's selling my data to these folks who are 100% not running their own Facebook ad campaigns. Actually - I might reach out to the car dealerships and try to figure out what agencies they are using.

fru2013 8y ago
Same for me with the car dealerships. I've never owned a car or even ever contacted a dealership before. My guess is maybe car rental companies are selling the data to dealerships, since they would be gathering email + phone and car-renters would be targets for car-sellers.
- jahewson 8y ago
  The DMV sells its data too.
- tricolon 8y ago
  I've never owned or rented a car, contacted a dealership, or ever had a license, but my list is almost completely car dealerships. I'm beginning to suspect my state's DMV, where I got my state ID.
shostack 8y ago
Tons of out of state real estate agents on mine. That's just poor targeting.
ACow_Adonis 8y ago
I had a total of 4 advertisers remaining on mine (if anything I'm doing better than most). Audi, a local real estate group, a betting agency, and an airline/frequent-flyer account. Obviously I don't want and didn't volunteer my details used for use by any of these for advertising or tracking purposes. The frequent flyer group have just taken it from my membership details. I don't bet, but I've worked as a statistician, so there's probably some connection there with past probability and modelling work or getting odds from these sites. The real estate group I'm guessing is from contact details given while looking for houses that they've used without my explicit permission. Audi is interesting because I've never had a car in my name, and haven't had one in my household for several years. Haven't so much as stepped in a car dealership. I'm guessing they must have bought(stole?) it from a rental or car-share company database...or a marketing list somewhere, but its certainly not from anything I've done first hand.
chatmasta 8y ago
I also got a ton of out-of-state car dealerships. It might be worth looking into them to see if they exist. Lots of affiliate marketers use multiple Facebook accounts, and I wouldn't be surprised if they set them up through front companies like "car dealerships". Either that, or some advertising agency represents a bunch of car dealerships, creates a separate account for each, but uses the same contact data. EDIT: Looking into this a bit, I don't think they're fake... it seems like most of the websites are "powered by X" where X is some CRM/website builder solution targeted at car dealerships, like these [0] [1]. They all have marketing/advertising features, and there is likely some sharing of contact data on the backend, or contact lists are outright sold as "leads" [0] https://www.dealersync.com/ https://www.dealersync.com/ [1] https://foxdealer.com/ https://foxdealer.com/

fru2013 8y ago

Same for me with the car dealerships. I've never owned a car or even ever contacted a dealership before. My guess is maybe car rental companies are selling the data to dealerships, since they would be gathering email + phone and car-renters would be targets for car-sellers.

jahewson 8y ago
The DMV sells its data too.
tricolon 8y ago
I've never owned or rented a car, contacted a dealership, or ever had a license, but my list is almost completely car dealerships. I'm beginning to suspect my state's DMV, where I got my state ID.

shostack 8y ago

Tons of out of state real estate agents on mine. That's just poor targeting.

ACow_Adonis 8y ago

I had a total of 4 advertisers remaining on mine (if anything I'm doing better than most). Audi, a local real estate group, a betting agency, and an airline/frequent-flyer account. Obviously I don't want and didn't volunteer my details used for use by any of these for advertising or tracking purposes. The frequent flyer group have just taken it from my membership details. I don't bet, but I've worked as a statistician, so there's probably some connection there with past probability and modelling work or getting odds from these sites. The real estate group I'm guessing is from contact details given while looking for houses that they've used without my explicit permission. Audi is interesting because I've never had a car in my name, and haven't had one in my household for several years. Haven't so much as stepped in a car dealership. I'm guessing they must have bought(stole?) it from a rental or car-share company database...or a marketing list somewhere, but its certainly not from anything I've done first hand.

chatmasta 8y ago

I also got a ton of out-of-state car dealerships. It might be worth looking into them to see if they exist. Lots of affiliate marketers use multiple Facebook accounts, and I wouldn't be surprised if they set them up through front companies like "car dealerships". Either that, or some advertising agency represents a bunch of car dealerships, creates a separate account for each, but uses the same contact data. EDIT: Looking into this a bit, I don't think they're fake... it seems like most of the websites are "powered by X" where X is some CRM/website builder solution targeted at car dealerships, like these [0] [1]. They all have marketing/advertising features, and there is likely some sharing of contact data on the backend, or contact lists are outright sold as "leads" [0] https://www.dealersync.com/ https://www.dealersync.com/ [1] https://foxdealer.com/ https://foxdealer.com/