Retailer wants me to remove his contact information from my web site.

I think he is crazy but am I required to by law.

[lgn1]

We sell strictly on the internet, however we have provided a list of local retailers on our website.

We use this to cut down on the "can we come out to the warehouse" type phone enquires from the locals, and gives them a place to go, if they are looking for product, but don't want to buy online.

I was surprized to get a phone message the other day, asking for me to remove this information from my website (address and store phone number) which is all public information.

This store should be gratefull, that I was sending him the retail customers we did not want out of the goodness of my heart. But go figure, some people are strange.

I will remove this information for this ungratefull SOB when I get around to it, but where do I stand legally on this?

There is no link to his website (he does not have one), but don't I have the right to list public information without harasement?

[Wlauzon]

and should assume that the store has good reason for making it.

I think that is the real gist of the topic here, not whether or not he should remove it (of course he should).

IMO, what this may be showing is more about the general publics' real ignorance of the internet than anything else. We get some really strange calls and emails that just leave me mystified.

[sniffer]

i set up a website to generate enquiries for distributors of some of our products. Interestingly, the logs indicate that some users come across the site by searching for the contatc details of one of the more popular distrubutors who dont have a website. Their name is only listed once on one page. Even if they knew about this, they cant really complain as they should have a presence on the web by now

[Wlauzon]

they should have a presence on the web by now ...

I am amazed from time to time that some large companies still do not have a web presence - or if they do, it is some one page thing that looks like it was built in 1993 as a school project.

I doubt that many of them even know how much the lack of a basic website is hurting them. A recent article in Forbes noted that 50% of all purchasing managers for fortune 500 companies used the internet for research and purchasing. I know that we have taken at least a couple of accounts away from other companies.

And last year we started buying all of our high power connectors from another company for the sole reason that we could get instant specifications and pricing from their website.

[sniffer]

the same thing has happened to us. We regularly get contacted by overseas manufacturers offering new products ahead of our competitors for exactly that reason. Others have prices on their site that havnt been updated in 2 years