Credit card offers can be an unwelcome distraction at work. Offers sent through the mail or directed to your office phone are unprofessional and take time away from your work obligations. Stopping credit card offers requires minimizing the distribution of your work contact information, registering your contact preferences with marketing associations and requesting that credit bureaus limit the information they provide to marketers. Minimizing your credit card offers at work may require directly contacting companies that do not adhere to industry customer contact guidelines.
Step 1
Avoid providing your work contact information to nonwork contacts. Don't place your office phone number or address on financial applications, rebate forms or contest entries. Anytime you place your professional information on applications and forms unrelated to your job, the information can end up on marketing databases and lists, and it's difficult to remove.
Step 2
Add your work phone number to the National Do Not Call Registry. You can do this through a federal website. Registration is free and should reduce or eliminate phone-based credit card solicitations in about a month.
Step 3
Specify your mail preferences with the Direct Marketing Association. The organization maintains a list of individuals who prefer not to be contacted with marketing messages. Specify your work contact information when signing up. As of June 2010, this service costs $1, and the registration is valid for five years. You can also reduce email solicitations by adding your work email address to your request form.
Step 4
Ask credit bureaus to include your work information on their opt-out lists for prescreened credit card offers. Contact Experian, TransUnion and Exquifax and request that your work contact information not be provided when requested by potential creditors for solicitations.
Step 5
Contact the credit card companies that are sending offers to your work address and ask to be excluded from future marketing offers. Use the phone number on email or regular mail solicitations. If you receive a sales call, ask to be added to the company's do-not-call list.
Step 6
Update your credit card contact file. Your current credit card providers may have inadvertently placed your work contact information on their marketing lists. Contact each company where you have an existing account and request that your business phone number, address and email address be deleted from its records and removed from future marking activities.
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