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Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?

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1121 points alokedesai | 1 comments | 28 Oct 15 19:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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throwaway13337 ◴[28 Oct 15 21:47 UTC] No.10467670[source]▶
From what I gather from the other comments, it looks like most likely Homejoy's liquidator (Nortonsgroup) has sold Homejoy's user data to Homeaglow.

Homeaglow copied and rebranded their own tech as Fly Maids to service this user list.

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nacs ◴[28 Oct 15 22:36 UTC] No.10467905[source]▶
> has sold Homejoy's user data to Homeaglow

Sold it with credit card numbers attached though?

That sounds awfully.. illegal even for a liquidation.

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yeukhon ◴[28 Oct 15 22:51 UTC] No.10467970[source]▶
See http://www.pcworld.com/article/2901028/radioshack-puts-custo...

Interestingly it has been legal in one case.

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1. nacs ◴[28 Oct 15 22:56 UTC] No.10468006[source]▶
Not really, FTC didn't like it:

http://money.cnn.com/2015/05/19/news/companies/radioshack-cu...