What's the deal Norvil?

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A little over a year ago I purchased a beltdrive from Norvil at someone elses reccomendation. This was before I knew much about them. No problem, it shows up and all is fine. Shortly after that, I started receiving lots of snail mail spam and some inbox spam from various charities and other business's soliciting for whatever. The weird part was that my name was misspelled every time the same way. They had added my first initial to the end of my last name. At the time I didn't make any connection, I had no reason to. I figured I mistyped my name into something and Google was up to their usual tricks.? Now I don't know for sure that Norvil is up to no good, just presenting the evidence.

So today I get an unsolicited catalogue from them and my name is misspelled the same way?? Now I've kept every receipt from my Commando money pit, so I go look for the beltdrive receipt. Sure enough my name is misspelled the same way?? Obviously I didn't notice at the time, so I'm wondering did Norvil share my info or what?? How else would all of these other entities get that misspelled name? Obviously I don't trust Google but I never received any mail or spam to this misspelled name until after my transaction with Norvil. I'm curious what some of you think.
 
Its an obnoxious business practise that is becoming more and more pervasive in the mainstream of simple commercial transactions. I find it difficult to purchase almost anything on line without personal details, unrelated to the matter having to be filled in before the form proceeds to the accept the sale. That information is SOLD to the unsolicited spam marketing industry by the retailer.
The Internet has many advantages, but sadly civilization is being subverted by this insensitive intrusion to privacy and it makes me angry.
 
I've bought from Norvil on number of occassions, including a few in the last 6 months, and never had that sort of issue.
 
The issue is perhaps not CREATED by Norvil, but rather perhaps that they've got a worm lurking in their e-mail list that the abusers exploit to receive e-mail addresses.

Still, it should be pointed out the them, so they can run a decent, current, anti-virus / anti-spam software program to remove it.
 
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