Anita Koenig Wrote:
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> I'm running into keeping track of name problems
> with car shops. I am doing some of the same
> places I haven't done in over two years. I do not
> remember what name or phone number I used back
> then. I do keep track, but going back to what I
> used two or more years ago would take me too much
> time to research it. I was asked the other day,
> "Hey are you so and so? That is who we have for
> the home number you gave me. OOPs, "No I am not
> her. I just got a new phone number." The other
> problem is that when I give a name that is totally
> not mine (I have shopped the place many times over
> the years and need to use a different name) and it
> totally does not match the name on the driver's
> license. Some salesmen look at the license and
> some just run a copy without looking at it.
>
> I'm looking for solutions to using alternative
> e-mails and ways to be alerted when I get an email
> on them. I have two e-mails that I have and use,
> but I have trouble checking the one on regular
> basis. I am using my daughter's now and she has
> been really good about telling me when one comes
> in for me. Here is why I'm asking. When doing
> apartment shops some companies that own multiple
> complexes keep track of their visitors in a
> computer system (like the car shops). I have used
> multiple names, but alternate between the two
> e-mails. The phone numbers are between my home
> and cell too. I have to give a home or cell
> number, e-mail address and home address and the
> targets get graded down if they do not send out a
> thank you on one to all three ways. So I have to
> be able to keep up with the emails. One would
> think that eventually someone will realize that
> hey this is a different person, but same address
> or e-mail or phone number as such and such. The
> other problem I have is that both e-mails use my
> current last name. (I don't want to switch e-mail
> addresses completely as I would be afraid that I
> would forget to notify a company of the change.)
>
>
> So does anyone have any suggestions?
There are several ways that this can be taken care of. Will require a bit of work, but it is doable. Sign up for a GMX account at GMX.com Then use their mail collector to get all of your emails into one account. Currently I have over a dozen accounts. I use outlook and Thunderbird to get my emails if I can set them up in either one. I get all of my mail collected in one GMX account that I have Thunderbird set up for. Use Imap and the mail stays on the original server I did have several hotmail accounts but when M$ decided they were going to get rid of hotmail with no or little warning, I will have as little as anything to do with them. And my Yahoo address' I rarely use any more. You can even get temp email accounts that are good for 30 minutes and some for 30 days, then they just go to the big bit locker on the internet until someone else decides to use it. Out of 9 billion people someone else just might have the same name, Or come up with Bob 2857.