Am I the CF?

[sillyme563]

A GP friend of mine recently put on her stories a review of a gut health drink which worked for her. Said it made her feel fantastic. I went and bought the drink, and at checkout it said 'who recommended this to you, enter their name and you get 50% off, so do they'. I entered her name and got the 50% off. Life got in the way and a day later the drink arrives, and I'm like oops I need to tell her I entered her name and thank you for the recommendation. I go to message her, she's unfollowed me.

WTF?

If someone shares something like that I would assume they want the referral credit.

Cos they already have an email address for her, given that she is already a customer?

Are you sure she was ever following you? I have friends that I don't follow because they're terribly annoying online I just chat on whatsapp instead

@shammalammadingdong
With a name? John Smith. About a million of them. Can't do that with gdpr.

With a lot of names, yes. And since they are only looking at their own customer lists, its pretty easy. They haven't sold their nonsense to a million John Smiths.

I suspect the 2 things are entirely unconnected.

Unless it's a unique name (like mine) there's no way to trace people to their name.

There's only one of me in the UK! One abroad. So my name is personal data and John Smith isn't (because there's 100s)

I think she's unfollowed you for another reason. Not that.

I’m not sure it’s appropriate for GPS to be recommending that kind of thing. Maybe I’m just being grumpy.

I wonder if a GP is allowed to advertise these sorts of things on social media? Because just like you, people are likely to buy it because it’s almost like it’s doctor recommended. I wonder if she has since deleted the post and unfollowed you so she can deny a connection to you if she got found out? Maybe you writing her name made her think twice about her post.

Haahaaaa I read things like this and wonder how some people navigate life when they spin out over such tiny things. No OP you aren't a CF. You just answered a question that appeared to benefit both of you.

This makes sense

She definitely was as she had been replying to my stories etc

Yeh it was just the name. No email address. In fact if I had to give her email address I would have run it by her before as that would be crossing the line. I figured that just the name would be ok. I will mention it to her after I check out as I'm sure she won't mind, in fact is that not the reason she put the post up? If I had any inkling she was going to mind I obviously wouldn't have done it!

I would like to know what the drink is please so I can order it lol

She seems weird. For one thing, if she didn’t want other people to know about it she shouldn’t paste it publicly all over social media. Secondly, What harm does someone getting 50% off do to her? Has it affected her life in any way? 😂 anybody would have done the same to get it half price, why wouldn’t you?

If she didn't want to publicise it then don't put it on the internet and just send it to friends and family.

That was my first thought!

It certainly wouldn't make be buy it but it would make me wonder about them!

It’s not possible for them to have known it was her just by the name.

Its weird they don’t ask for an email address as how else would they know who it is for research purposes.

It sounds like she’s unfollowed you for different reasons and it’s just a coincidence that you happened to buy the drink.

So they enter the name in the checkout till and it brings up the email address?

Yeah, I don't think it works like that 😂

I think she is worried about getting into trouble at work. As a GP she is probably not supposed to recommend products.

How do you know she unfollowed or un friended you due to the gut health drink?

My point is that it's extremely unlikely she will receive any spam from this company, as they don't have her contact details. There could be many people with the same name.

Plus there are GDPR rules I imagine.

She has a gut feeling obviously 😆

Absolutely.

I’d take her posting about it as invitation to name her. She’s being a Wally.

You gave out her name without her permission. Awful.