I SOLD off my previous property about two years ago and bought a new one in one of the prime estates.
Since then, there have been countless fliers sent to my previous residence address from different property agents asking if I am interested to sell my new property.
The fliers were sent in sealed envelopes attentioned to me and the current owner has been nice enough to keep them for me to collect on a periodic basis. However, it is long enough to cause him great annoyance and inconvenience.
I tried calling the property companies to remove me from their central mailing list but all mentioned that the individual agents keep their own database. Each of them has more than 700 agents and there is no way for them to reach out to all.
The only way for me to prevent the current owner from receiving any more of my mail is to subscribe to a ‘redirect mail’ service from SingPost. However, it is rather costly and not a long-term solution.
I am sure the property agents obtained the information of buyers from an authority in Singapore that governs the transaction. Can that authority stop providing such private information to third parties?
I would appreciate it if anyone could share with me a long-term solution as I believe I am not the only one suffering from this.
Source : Straits Times - 28 Dec 2007
