I’ve ordered from small WAHMs before as well and have never had an issue with my information being sold. I’ve also worked with hundreds of moms and they were all focused on selling their product — not on collecting information to sell.

I sure hope the author of that Q&A responds to this backlash. I’d be interested to know what he says.

Truth of the matter, they’d probably have sent it to me anyhow. Not long after that I got inundated with tons of mail inviting me to subscribe to other magazines at ‘Professional rate’. I’ve also started receiving email from people I know I have not signed up directly from. But they ‘qualify’ it by saying because I am subscriber to such and such a magazine. WTF?

I gave permission to them. Not you. But you know what? They ‘hide’ that by having all these ’sister’ companies, I don’t even know how they do it. And finally, I don’t recall once ever seeing a fine print to tell me what by applying for the free magazine they would share my info.

In so many years of dealing with the “online mom and pop” businesses, I don’t receive such things. Sure, sometimes the volume of mail is higher but they always come from the people I signed up with, not from other people who purchased their lists.