Tractor web survey?

[Cliff_Johns]

Anyone else get one in the mail from A. D. Little. They say they will give me a $10 amazon.com gift cert. if I fill it out. Is this Legit? Is it common? Did I miss the thread on it?

Cliff

 

[Richard]

I just got a survey maybe an hour ago...didn't read much about it, just deleted it, so I'll raise my hand as a "yes" vote to your first question. As to the other quesitons, I'll pull my hand down, cause I don't know.

Richard

 

[MadReferee]

I was just about to post about this too. Here is what I just received in an email. Anybody respond yet?

Dear Sir/Madam,

Arthur D. Little is a global management consulting firm with offices in Boston, Paris, Tokyo and many other cities around the world. We focus mainly on the manufacturing and high-tech industries. To see more about us, please follow the link to our website:

http://www.adl.com

We are currently performing a survey of the residential compact tractor market in the US, and we would like to know more about end-user needs.

Judging from some web pages, we guess that you are a lead-user of this kind of tractor. If so, could you kindly share your opinions with us by answering the following web-based questionnaire?


http://www.adl.co.jp/cgi-email/contact/tractor-survey.html


This survey should take 10 minutes to complete.
We also request that you answer this survey by June 25th.
we are offering you a 10-dollar gift certificate (e-coupon for amazon.com) as a reward.

If you have any questions about this survey, please let me know.


Thank you very much for your time, efforts and opinions in advance!


Hiroto Suzuki
(Arthur D. Little Tractor Survey Team)


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Hiroto Suzuki
Arthur D. Little (Japan)
3-5-1 Toranomon Minato-ku Tokyo Japan
Tel: +81-3-3436-8920(Direct) Fax: +81-3-3436-0092
E-mail: suzuki.hiroto@adlittle.com

 

[MadReferee]

I quess my real question is where did they get my email address?

The address they used is the one I use for this forum (and several other non-tractor forums) and I don't use it anywhere else. Has TBN been data mined again?

Inquiring minds want to know.

 

[chucko]

Yep just got it. I don't respond tp spam. If they want to know what we think about why don't they just sign up for TBN

 

[frank_f15]

ME TOO! i got it but did not even look to see what type of questions they were asking. DELETED. seems kind of odd that so many of us tbn folks got the same survey at about the same time?

 

[jpr62902]

Yup. Just got it. It asks the standard survey/product registration card questions (What's your income, where did you buy the thing, what implements do you have, etc). Frankly, it is none of their GD business.

 

[Muhammad]

IF YOU HAVE RECEIVED THIS E-MAIL, PLEASE FORWARD IT TO spamabuse@tractorbynet.com. If you can, please include FULL HEADERS!

We did not authorize this. We advise you to NOT complete this survey.

They did not ask our permission to send any of you this survey.

We will deal with this in whatever manner appropriate (legal or otherwise).

My sincere apologies. We will do everything we can to get this stopped ASAP.

 

[Cliff_Johns]

Muhammad,
Do you really want everyone to send you this same e-mail? I think it's safe to assume that anyone who has a posted e-mail address got the spam. I will forward it if you want it, but I think you will be overwhelmed with copies of this e-mail.

Cliff

 

[higgy]

Yes I just got it an hour or so ago and was going to post this thread. Thanks for doing it. I only participate in this tractor forum and I am not happy about the fact that this emial has made its way to me.

As others here have indicated that they got the same email I must think that they got a list from this site or one of the assocated sites that link to this site.

Thanks for wanting to take care of the situation Muhammed. I wonder if the names were grabed when looking at a picture or an advertisment link?? from this board.


Dane