Beware - Abuse of personal information

On Saturday the 23rd of January I went into the SolarMan Silverlakes shop for a quotation. The salesman insisted on contact information, but assured me that it would not be abused for marketing purposes. Naively I believed him, and gave a valid phone number and email address. Mistake. Today, less than a week later, the first unsolicited SMS adverti*****t arrived. I called the shop about it, and had to hear that they had indeed **** - they have a department called 'marketing' whose job it is to do exactly that. The person on the phone then wanted my number (again), supposedly to stop this happening - however, they should stop the abuse for everybody, not just me, and I am not about to make the same mistake again. So I simply blocked their number on my side (as I had in fact told the original salesman that I would if they broke their word).

Bottom line - a company that lies to you in your face cannot be trusted, not with information as they have shown, and therefore not with money either.