Chief Marketer Staff

• Mass. AG, States File Objection to Toysmart List Sale

  The Massachusetts attorney general’s office, on behalf of 43 other states, two territories, and the District of Columbia, has filed a further objection

• BrandDirect Settles Telemarketing Suit With Two AGS

  BrandDirect, a Shelton, CT-based telemarketer of buying-club memberships, has settled a lawsuit with the Washington and Connecticut state Attorneys General

• Retail Shoppers

  Reach Thousands of Enthusiastic Retail Shoppers with this list of consumers who not only already hold more than one credit card, but also have just activated

• Online Auction Sites Kill Sale of Customer File

  Market Logistics Group, Winter Park, FL, has failed in its attempt last week to market its customer file through two popular online auction sites.Citing

• Short Cut

  Egarden.com Inc., a San Francisco-based online garden supplies marketer, has launched its wholesale store site which contains more than 26 product categories

• Legal Seminars

  American Lawyer Media Seminars is one of three lists created by dividing the Law Journal Seminars Press list. The 6,933 seminar and workshop attendees

• Auction for Customer File Moves From Yahoo! to eBay

  The auction for Market Logistics Group’s customer file, listed earlier this week at a Yahoo! auction site, was allegedly pulled by the Internet Service

• Reader’s Digest, Bertelsmann May Merge Some Units

  Reader’s Digest Association, Pleasantville, NY, has been talking to Bertelsmann AG, about possibly combining some of its business units with the media

• Internet Commerce Corp. Acquires Service Bureau

  Internet Commerce Corp., a New York-based electronic business supply chain network, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Intercoastal Data Corp.,

• Internet Growth Spurs Second Quarter Sales for Sharper Image

  Second-quarter sales for The Sharper Image Corporate jumped 38%, from $57.4 million in 1999 to $79.5 million. Among the chain’s units, the increase in