Big Spammer is Watching You 3- Tripod

 

See here for essential background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2024/06/big-spammer-is-watching-you-2-visit.html.
This latest example is very hard to explain, but at the same time only the most dedicated skeptic would reject it as coincidence. It does not involve anything I was watching or searching for online. This time it is an issue I just happened to talk about twice. A few weeks ago I went on a trip to south Wales; I was speaking at a conference there. I took my camera tripod with me and somewhere on the journey I put it down and forgot to pick it up. I refer to this in the video on the second leg of my train trip, see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2025/06/ben-emlyn-jones-at-west-usk-lighthouse.html. (This is actually the second time I lost that tripod; the first time I retraced my steps and managed to find it myself, see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2017/04/ben-emlyn-jones-live-at-manchester-tm.html.) I contacted the lost property office at Network Rail and reported the loss. A few days later they got back to me to tell me the item had been recovered and handed in. They sent me a photo of it and it was definitely my tripod. There are two ways to have it returned; I can go and pick it up myself from their warehouse at Bristol Temple Meads station or have it sent to me by courier. The first option is very inconvenient. I'm not going all the way to Bristol and back just for that and I have no current future plans to pass that way; but when they told me the shipment price I was dismayed at how high it was. I assumed they would be able simply to put it on a train for Oxford along with the usual freight, but they can't. I decided not to bother. I hardly ever use the tripod anyway because it is really too big and bulky for my purposes. It's also getting old and is a bit rickety. On a following video, this one: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2025/06/reply-to-comments-111.html, I announced my decision to HPANWO TV viewers and added if any of them wanted the tripod they could go to Bristol Temple Meads and pick it up themselves; "tell them I sent you". If nobody claims it after six weeks it will be donated to a charity shop. I might buy a new smaller light tripod at some point. Apart from these occasions, this is the only time I ever put any information out into the public space about my missing tripod; two verbal citations only. This article is literally the first time I have ever written about this matter. Privately I have emailed the lost property office and also told a friend via SMS. Therefore, imagine my shock when I opened my email and for the first time ever in the ad pane appeared a tripod on sale. It was from Jessops, a famous high street photography retailer. I must apologize for not screen capping it... Big question: How did they know? Could it really be just a coincidence? If it is not, then to have found out, the spamdexers must be able to watch my videos and listen to my words, even a very brief reference in a much longer upload. The only other alternative is quite chilling; they are able to read my private emails and text messages, and they think they have a right to do so for their own purposes. If so then what else do they know about me? Who else is gathering data on me? What do they plan to use it for?