Paranoia

My own paranoia that is. I recently bought the Spies of Warsaw directly from a Borders brick and mortar store.I gave my email address (I think). Anyhow I was quite surprised to receive a solictation from Amazon a couple of days later for the next Alan Furst novel. It does make me wonder how much information is shared.

This has made me determined not to shop at Borders because of an Amazon breach of trust several years ago. I had ordered a gift from Amazon (and believed their statement that they would not share personal data). This gift was to be shipped anonymously to a friend so that he could spend a little time on a kind of "treasure hunt" - figuring out who it came from. Well, needless to say Amazon screwed it up. They put MY return address on the package! So of course my friend knbew instantly. That was 10 years ago and I have never deliberately shopped at Amazon since. Now knowing about the Borders relationship, it meqans I am reduced to Barnes and Noble for everything. That doesn't bother me much - B&N do a good job for me.

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