Creepy phone call from Apple

My friend received a phone call the other day from an "apple operator" who wanted to know if he was still interested in buying his powerbook. Short of him putting the actual computer in his cart and then not purchasing it, how could she know that he had an interest, and, more importantly, isn't this violating some privacy by calling like this so randomly? Has this happened to anyone else?
How very big brother...

I got 2 phone call from Apple from the past. Fist time it was about a PowerBook G4 900Mhz that I save the order but never reallly buy it. I guess becasue I save it for later that is why I know that I interested. Normally I have a bunch of Apple product that I want but never really need it so it just on the cart but never save them. So Apple people never call me just that. Second time was after I bought a PowerBook G4 17". The one that I using right now. They called about the Apple Care. They said they call because I used phone support many time so I might be interest in Apple care. So other than that they never call me. I guess Apple keep record of your activity with the company and they make a phone call only when they see the potential of selling you something. It's fine with me.
PowerBook G4 17 1.5GHz Mac OS X (10.4.3) 2GB RAM

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